ESPM175 May 2019: 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 & Ellen Plane

Environmental Sciences Senior Thesis Symposium, April 20th, 2019

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Ecology & Evolution

Sean O'Neil
Colonizations and Chytridiomycosis: A Case Study of American Bullfrogs in Tilden Regional Park, Orinda, CA

Claudia Ruslim
Evaluating the Spider Community of Sulawesi along Elevational Change and Forest Cover Loss

Kavya Niranjan
As the Bee Flies: Predicting Native Bee Diversity in Brentwood, CA Using Landcover and Bee Life History

Chellam E. Nayar
Lineage Composition and Genetic Diversity of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the California Bay Area

Shuanger Li
Ginger Invasion in Hawaii: Sampling Arthropod Assemblages through Metagenomics of Spider Gut Contents

Marine & Freshwater Sciences

Fatima Mahmud
What is "Clean" Water? Sovereignty under the Clean Water Act's Treatment as a State Program

Colette Christensen
Caddisfly Species Identification via Wing Morphometrics and Potential Applications

Yu Guan Marc Leong
Buried Alive? The Effect of Sediments on White Abalone Larvae Settlement

Daisy Cervantes-Hernandez
Understanding Structuring Drivers of Fish Assemblages in Suisun Bay, California

Nika Hoffman
Water Quality and Autonomous Surface Vessel Technology in the Ala Wai Canal

The Business of Greening

Andrea A. Bassetti
Expanding the Impact of Ecolabels: Leveraging Standards to Propose Sustainable Practices for Paper Products Without Certifications

Emily Yan
Green Business or Greenwashing? Consumer Valuation of Green Business Certifications

Roxanne "Roxi" M. Shiu
Perceptions and Uses of Ford GoBikes by U.C. Berkeley Students

Alina Xu
Fashion Futures: Designers & Green Values

Daye Sky Lee
Discovering Green Marketing Opportunities in Social Media For the South Korean Cosmetics Industry

Ecosystem Ecology & Forest Management

Sophia B. Bagshaw
Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and Climate Change: Age Based Differences in Leaf Hydraulic Traits

Maeve O'Brien Hanafin
Exploring the Relationship between Bark Beetle and Drought Induced Tree Mortality in the Sierra Nevada

Clemente Arreguin
Maximizing Carbon Dioxide Storage in Oak Savanna Ecosystems: Identifying the Effects of Ecosystem Disturbances

Benjamin Kopania
A Comparison of Methods for Obtaining Aboveground Biomass Estimates Using Terrestrial LiDAR

Caroline M. Ayala
Fuel Treatment Impacts on Overstory Species Composition in Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Sierra Nevada

Sustainability & Waste Management

Sophie K. Babka
A Breakdown of Compostable Plastic Recovery in California

Scott F. Silva
Optimizing UC Berkeley's Plastics Recycling Facility

Jon Abdon
A Systematic Review of Management Practices for Biosolids Land Application

Ryan G. DeGeer
A Source of Sexual Dysfunction: Estrogen Output from Wastewater Treatment Plants to the San Francisco Estuary

Karina Aguilera
Listening to the People: The Effects of an Unregulated Landfill in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico

Yirong Chen
Evaluating Long-term Impact of Waste Separation Pilot Programs in Shanghai, China

Environmental Education, Health & Culture

Cindy Valdivia
Assessing the Importance and Accessibility of Culturally Appropriate Food Among Undergraduate Students at UC Berkeley

Giselle Serafin
Bridging Connections: Environmental Justice Organizing in the Inland Empire

Sinareth Sagn
Regeneration After the Cambodian Genocide: Khmer Elders' Perspectives on PTSD and Gardening

Ho-Ying Helena Chang
Escaping the Gap: Escape Rooms as an Environmental Education Tool

Kumi Yanagihara
AP Environmental Science Student Perspectives on Environmental Education

Bori Kozek
End of the world or beginning of hope? How high school students engage with global environmental discourse

Political Economy of Natural Resources

Neena Mohan
Bioclimatic and Access Indicators of Investor Preferences for Agricultural Land Deals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aditya Mistry
"Netas" vs Nature: A Review of Corruption's Effects on Natural Resource Management in India

Lisa Mengqi Wu
Spatial and Temporal Variation of Water Deficits as a Result of Virtual Water Trade - Focus on Soy Bean

Nidhi Menon
Food Expenditure and Household Welfare in India: MGNREGA Program Outcomes

Haolan Martin Zhou
The Future of Hydropower in Sichuan Province, China: High-voltage Transmission Line Extension and Hydropower Installed Capacity

Landscape & Climate

Victoria Marie Glynn
Bird Health in California's Central Coast: Using Immunological Parameters to Understand the Impact of Land Use and Life History on Avian Communities

Emily Cox
Daisies in Distress: Growth Responses of Lasthenia gracilis to Simulated Drought over a Geographic Gradient

Shuhan Song
Assessing the Impact of Climate and Snowpack on the Distribution of Amphibian Species in Sierra Nevada

Madeleine E. Zuercher
Factors Predicting Bat Detection, Occupancy and Activity across Iowa Landscapes

Katelyn A. Yu
Water Use Efficiency of California Evergreen Species from OCO-2 Satellite Data

Agricultural Systems

Erin M. Murphy
Nutrient Cycling in Organic and Conventional Agricultural Systems with Winter Cover Crops

Le "Tim" Lu
Assessing Gross Primary Productivity of Cropland - an Index Perspective

Carter L. Ly
Organic Coating of Biochar by Compost-Incubation

Guozheng Li
Evaluating Agricultural Land Suitability and Vegetable Production in East Bay Area

Isaac W. Vendig
Effects of No-Till and Daikon Winter Crops on Surface Soil Structure and Hydrology

Wildlife Ecology, Conservation & Management

Michael A. Gallegos
Habitat preference and distribution of the Northern California legless lizard (Anniella pulchra) in Eastern Contra Costa County

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

Brice M. Hagan
3D Modeling of UC Berkeley's Strawberry Creek using Terrestrial LiDAR

Alexa N. Frederick
An Evaluation of Social, Ecological and Administrative Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Wildlife Damages Compensation Programs

Yujing Wu
The Impacts of Urbanization on Birds in the San Francisco East Bay

Christopher J. Orner
Occupancy of Riparian Birds in the Southern Central Valley: Applying Remote Sensing Methods to Understand Species Relationship with Vegetation

Soil & Plant Ecology

Ann B. McElvein
Mapping Potential Carbon Emissions from Thawing Permafrost Soils in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Zahira H. Chaudhry
The Potential for Soil Carbon Sequestration in the San Joaquin Delta

Hans W. Singh
A Comparison of Winter and Summer Microbial Culture Libraries from a High-elevation Mountainous Soil Ecosystem

Alicia M. J. Sadowski
Short-term response to Hurricane Disturbance: Impacts of Hurricane Maria on Litter Debris in Puerto Rico

Hannah Marsh
The Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Food Waste Compost Application to Grassland Soils

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 2018 to Spring 2019 Senior Research Seminars.