Environmental Sciences Major, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2922
Patina Mendez & Kurt Spreyer
Seth Shonkoff & Melissa Eitzel
Anna E. Bischoff
Effects of Three Climate Regimes on the Mechanisms of Carbon Stabilization in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest Soil
Emily Chow
Investigating Methane Flux from Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Soils
Taichi Natake
Patterns of Soil Texture and Root Biomass along a Humid Tropical Forest Hillslope Catena
Shalika Gupta
Relatedness and Ecological Niche Similarity in the Genus Heliconia
Vicheth L. Kaing
Ecological Responses of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities to Streamflow Augmentation in Strawberry Creek, Berkeley, California
Zhongxiang Gary Gao
Decomposition of Compost Addition on California Rangeland Soil
Sophia Ashton
Residential Occupant Characteristics and Tree Mortality
Diana Castro
Sudden Oak Death Symptoms in Quercus agrifolia and its Host Associations in Redwood Regional Park, California
Marissa Montjoy
Heritable Resistance to Sudden Oak Death in Tanoaks
Patrick Hennessy
The History of Social Perceptions of Eucalyptus Globulus in the East San Francisco Bay Area
Tara Lynn DiRocco
Fuel-Efficient Stoves: A Comparison of Berkeley-Darfur Stoves to Three-Stone Fires
Rachel Spiciarich
“Breaking Down” the Problem: Aligning Policy and Practice in the Compostable Plastics Industry
Taylor Zhou
Cost of conserved energy for residential energy appliances in Australia, Japan and Korea
Katarina Makmuri
Green Food, Cleaning Products, and Electronics: Consumer Attitudes and Behaviors
Cynthia Gaw
Sleeping on Toxins? A Study of Flame Retardants in Sleep Products
April Shannon McGrath
Fashioning Sustainability: How the Clothes we wear can support Environmental and Human Well-being
Mandy Jones
Emerging City Planning Trends in Richmond, CA: Learning to Integrate the Community's Public Health Goals
David Pon
The Nature of a Public University Campus: Evolving Landscapes and Ideologies, 1956-2012
Kelley Doyle
Converting University Spending to Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Supply Chain Carbon Footprint Analysis of UC Berkeley (Appendix)
Marielle Pinhero
Travel behavior and choice in suburban California: a statistical and spatial analysis
Evelyn Christina
Hunting in Indonesian Oil Palm Landscapes: A Case Study in Jambi Province, Sumatra
Christina Kastely
Belding's Ground Squirrels (Urocitellus beldingi) are more acoustically similar to Relatives than to Unrelated Individuals
Uriel García
Sea Otter Foraging in Elkhorn Slough
Benjamin H. Wheeler
Modeling Range Shifts for North American Bats under Climate Change
Austin Roughton
Overwintering Habitat Assessment for Anagrus spp. (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in Northern California Vineyards
Alyssa Tison
A study of organic food consumers' knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding labor in organic farms
Ming Stephens
Density-dependent Foraging of Walnut Aphid Chromaphis juglandicola by the Parasitoid Wasp Trioxys pallidus
Sean Kodani
Biochemical Toxicology of Fluorosulfate, an Intermediary Metabolite of the Fumigant Sulfuryl Fluoride
Stephanie Baker
Evaluating the Feasibility of Urban Agriculture on Oakland's Private Land (Appendix)
Jaclyn Iaquinta
Changes in the Hemolymph Metabolites of Epiphyas postvittana parasitized by Meteorus ictericus
Hanna Scardina
Native Pollinators in Agricultural Hedgerows: An Alternative to Honeybee Colonies for Crop Pollination
Sarah Cohen
San Diego's IPCCC: The Implications and Politics of Climate Change Confusion (Appendix)
Alexander Y. Daniel
Escaping the Grasp of Foreign Oil: Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Domestic, Nonrenewable Alternatives
Jack Jeong
Higher temperature effects of impervious surface due to urbanization in South Berkeley, California
Tiffany Chang
Potential Substrates for Low-Cost Flexible Supercapacitors
Jordan Woods
Investigating the Relationship between Rooftop Reflectance and Zoning District in San Jose, California
Katherine He
A Calculation of the Environmental Footprint of a Granular Activated Carbon Regeneration Facility (Appendix)
Jennifer Kahng
Inhaler, Anyone? A Study of the Association Between Pollen Levels and Asthma in the Bay Area
Daniel Ruiz
In vitro Evaluation of Potential Anti-Inflammatory Agents from Peruvian Medicinal Plant Extracts
Amy Chan
Mapping the Cumulative Impacts of Point-Source Air Pollution in West Oakland
Caroline Ro
From Food Desert to Food Oasis: Community Food Security Assessment of the Grub Box Program in West Oakland
Nina Xu
Lean, Mean, Green Cleaning Machine: One School District's Quest for Sustainability
Lan H. Ngô
What's Agent Orange? Second-Generation Vietnamese-Americans and Agent Orange/Dioxin
These studies were undertaken by seniors in the Environmental Sciences Group Major, an Interdisciplinary Studies program administered by the Department of Enviromental Science, Policy, and Management in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. The Environmental Sciences major allows students to concentrate in one of three fields of specialization: biological science, physical science, and social science. In their senior year, students in the major participate in a two-semester Senior Research Seminar, investigating an environmental topic of current concern. This project gives the students experience in field work, general research techniques, and oral and written presentation of research results. This volume is the compilation of research reports from the Fall 2011 to Spring 2012 Senior Research Seminars.