Environmental Sciences Major, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2922
Patina Mendez & Kurt Spreyer
Leslie McGinnis & Alison Ecker
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
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
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
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
Yuhan Zhang
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Air Conditioned and Mixed-mode Ventilated Office Buildings in India
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
Sara C. Brown
Impact of Household Behavior and Environmental Factors on the Presence of Pathogenic E. coli in Rural Bangladesh
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
Junrun Buzz Chen
Cuticular Hydrocarbon Melting Temperatures and Quantity of
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
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
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
K. A. M.
Nematodes as Soil Indicators in Mulch Converted Lawns
Weijie Dong
3D Modeling of UC Berkeley's Strawberry Creek using Terrestrial LiDAR
Jessica Redden
Going Green? Transforming Sorority Sustainability Programs at the University of California, Berkeley
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.