Environmental Sciences Major, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2922
Patina Mendez & Kurt Spreyer
Leslie McGinnis & Ellen Plane
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Michael A. Gallegos
Habitat preference and distribution of the Northern California legless lizard (Anniella pulchra) in Eastern Contra Costa County
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
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
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.