ESPM175 May 2018: Table of Contents

Senior Research Seminar

Environmental Sciences Major, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2922

Instructors

Patina Mendez & Kurt Spreyer

Graduate Student Instructors

Leslie McGinnis & Alison Ecker

Environmental Sciences Senior Thesis Symposium, April 14th, 2018

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Energy & Climate

Sophia Leiker
Oceans Fueling Our Future: Optimizing Placement of Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Along the California Coast

Jessica Kim
Calculating the water footprint of fossil fuel extraction and trade in Canada and the U.S.

Halley R. Nathwani
Intermittent Power Forecast Data Models for The Interdisciplinary Analysis of Energy Systems

Bessie Ying Liu
Strong Directional Precipitation Feedbacks over Sahel Region Revealed by Information Transfer

Annemarie E. Peacock
Quantifying Drought Impact on Wetland Vegetation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with Remote Sensing

People, Resources & Policy

Daniel J. Ahrens
What is "Clean" Water? Sovereignty under the Clean Water Act's Treatment as a State Program

Allison Herbert
A Transitioning Water Industry: Water Demand Management Policy in Post-Drought Australia

Valeria Sandoval
Green Gentrification Analysis: A Case Study of the East Bay Greenway in Oakland, California

Molly Greene
Equity and Justice in the Time of Rising Tides: Climate Action Plan Discourse in Richmond, CA

Katherine Lee
Framing a Future for Climate Refugees: A Case Study on Media and Discourse Surrounding Hurricanes Irma

Agriculture, Sustainabiloty & Politics

Alexis C. Hidalgo
Barriers and Strategies to Integrating Native Bee Habitats in Bay Area Farms

Isaias Hernandez
What is the UCGTF? Student Perceptions of the University of California Gill Tract Farm

Donald Dai Nguyen
Organic Cotton Clothing: Who will pay the premium?

Christina C Bitten
Perceptions of and Solutions to Inclusivity, Privilege, Wealth, and Whiteness in University Campus Gardens: Case study of the UC Berkeley Student Organic Garden (SOGA)

Jody L. Strait
Climate Change: Is Seeing Believing for California Farmers? Risk Perceptions, Belief Motivation and Social Barriers to Adaptation

Ecosystem Ecology & Forest Management

Andrew Capistrano
Tracking the Vegetative Compositional Changes 4 Years After the Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park

Camila Quintana Del Carpio
Changing Aboveground Carbon from Fire Suppression to Natural Fire Regime

Zoë Klein
Standing Dead Trees in a Northeastern Deciduous Forest: Decay Patterns and Biomass impacts

Ziyu Li
The Effect of Long-term Changes in Plant Inputs on Soil Carbon Stocks

Ka Ki Lily Law
Spatial and Temporal Variations in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Community Throughout the Plant Root System of Avena barbata

Kseniya Lyalina
Evidence of Overwintering Ulva Propagule Bank in the San Francisco Bay Sediments

Energy and the Built Environment

Yuhan Zhang
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Air Conditioned and Mixed-mode Ventilated Office Buildings in India

Sarah Nordahl
Comparative Life-Cycle Assessment of Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste at Zero Waste Energy Development Company in San Jose, California

Steven C. Wong
A Comparative Life-Cycle Assessment of BubbleDeck Voided Slabs

Yu Wen Nicole Huang
ASEAN Grid Flexibility: Preparedness for Grid Integration of Renewable Energy

Shehnaz Mannan
Electrifying Rural Villages Step by Step: Dynamic Modelling of Microgrid versus National Grid Options in Myanmar

Helen Kou
Community Solar Optimization for Geographical Locations and Load Profiles

Public Health Science & Policy

Sara C. Brown
Impact of Household Behavior and Environmental Factors on the Presence of Pathogenic E. coli in Rural Bangladesh

Daniel Mendoza
Rapid synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles dispersed with carbon nanotubes, bound to a melamine sponge as an electrically conductive bactericidal filter for the inactivation of Escherichia coli and total coliforms via electroporation

Claire M. Neal
A Case Study of Bacterial Indicators in the Sierra Nevada and Implications for Recreational Stream Use

Rei Whitworth
Risk Communication Discourse on Environmental Disaster: The Case Study of the 3-11-11 in Fukushima, Japan

Ashley M. Sutton
PFCs in Aquifer Systems: The Influence of Landscape Attributes on the Spatial Distribution of Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in New Hampshire Aquifers

Ecology & Physiology

Junrun Buzz Chen
Cuticular Hydrocarbon Melting Temperatures and Quantity of Linepithema humile in California

Lewis G. Campbell
Investigating Short-term Stem Circumference Fluctuations in Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) on Jackson Demonstration State Forest

Nick Chou
Exploration of Induced Polarization as a Non-Invasive Method to Quantify Herbaceous Root Traits

Yuzheng Danny Shen
Optical Measurement of Xylem Vulnerability: Variations in Three Species of California Trees

Weihan Zhang
Rate of Phytoremediation and Distribution of Arsenic Within Pteris vittata

Ryan Martinez
Root to Shoot: Zinc Translocation Increases with Mutation in HMA3 in Setaria viridis

Wildlife Ecology & Conservation

Katherine R. Rice
Creating a Species Inventory for a Marine Protected Area: The Missing Piece for Effective Ecosystem-Based Marine Management

Lynna H. Ohanian
Mapping the risk of North American arboreal amphibians to the fungal pathogen Batrachochythrium dendrobatidis

Delaney D. Inman
Monitoring Domestic Canine (Canis familiaris) Activity on Wildcat Creek Bootleg Trails via Camera Traps

Linqian Maggie Sheng
Landscape Impacts on Bird Diversity in East Bay Urban Parks

Kasumi Yatsuzuka
Species Distribution Modeling to Predict Invasion Risk of Nutria (Myocastor coypus) in Japan

Ben Pridonoff
More Than Charismatic: The Role of Pumas in Driving Composition of Bay Area Vertebrate Communities

Eduction, Knowledge & Science

Hannah Schoolmeester
"If We Try, It Will Change": How Berkeley 4th and 5th Graders Understand Climate Change

Brenda Gutierrez-Zamora
BEAR Assessment: Applying a Tool for Measuring Student Knowledge in an AP Envrionmental Science Class

Isabel L. S. Johnson
Building Bridges: Western and Indigenous Science in Cross-cultural Knowledge Production

Ryan A. Romero
The Effectiveness of Climate Change Education: A Case Study at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley, California

Nathalie A. Muņoz
Associations between Pesticide Exposure and Kidney Function Failure

Environmental Sciences on the UC Berkeley Campus

K. A. M.
Nematodes as Soil Indicators in Mulch Converted Lawns

Lingyu Mou
Sustainable Parking Policy Impact on Student Parking Experience and Equity Issue: Case Study of University of California, Berkeley

Weijie Dong
3D Modeling of UC Berkeley's Strawberry Creek using Terrestrial LiDAR

Thao T. Tran
The Effect of Environmental Knowledge on Improving Recycling Behavior: A Case Study at University of California, Berkeley's International House

Jessica Redden
Going Green? Transforming Sorority Sustainability Programs at the University of California, Berkeley

About the Program

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 2017 to Spring 2018 Senior Research Seminars.