Environmental Sciences Major, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2922
Patina Mendez & Samuel Evans
Leslie McGinnis, Roxy Cruz & Jessica Heiges
Claire Krumm
California's Human Right to Water: A Comparative Analysis of Domestic Well Water Quality Modeling
Johanna Laraway
Get ahead of the Lead: How Statistical Modeling
Can Assist in Identifying Areas of Lead Exposure Risk
Lena Kondrashova
Decolonization through Environmental Restoration and
Stewardship in Native American Communities
Kevin J. Gonzalez
Effects of Non-Native Eucalyptus globulus on Biological Soil Crusts in Berkeley's Tilden Park
Chase Turnbull
The Role of the APE1 Gene in the Development of Arabidopsis thaliana
Angelica A. Santos
Comparative Analysis of the Dispersal Behaviors of
Californian and Hawaiian Tetragnatha Spiders
Tasnim Ahmed
Friends with Benefits: Mycorrhizal Resource Exchange
between Serendipita bescii and Panicum hallii
Jenny Chiu
A Tale of To Go: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Compostable Single Use Foodware
Ansel Deng
Is Awareness Converted into Practice? Local Berkeley Restaurants' Perception on Plastic Pollution
Vanessa Garcia
Analyzing Economic Feasibility of Greywater Systems: A San Francisco Case Study
Rebecca Lim
Social Media CSR Communications: Comparative Content Analysis via Topic Modelling across Four Industries
Tiffany M. Lwin
Garden to Table: Consumer Access of Urban Produce Among
Food Insecure Communities around Berkeley, California
Sunny Elliott
Evaluating the Effects of Drought, Wildfire, and Habitat on Beetle Assemblages in a Mediterranean Oak Woodland
Melissa R. Jaffe
Remotely Sensed Prescribed Fire Shrub Consumption in Mixed Conifer Forests from the Southern Sierra Nevada
Ursula Harwood
Assessing Strategies for Decreasing Severe Fire Hazard in Young Plantation Forests in the Sierra Nevada
Eileen Alcantar Williams
Hero and Incarcerated: A Breakdown of Barriers for Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters in California
Alex Cisneros Carey
Mobile Consumers track Invertebrate Subsidies from Floating Algal Mats
Gabby Doerschlag
Reduced Flow and Macroinvertebrate Emergence: How Climate Change in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Threatens Emergence Patterns of Aquatic Insects
Sam Larkin
Bioenergetics of Juvenile Salmonid Foraging: a Mediterranean Stream Case Study
Shannon K. Louie
Projecting hydrological microrefugias: The impact of climate change on the hydrology of the Sagehen Drainage Basin
Christopher Berven
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act's Impact on
Groundwater Withdrawl in the Sacramento Hydrologic Region
Michael Yi
The Economic Impact of Air Pollution Related Diseases on West Oakland
Stanley Ou
Economic and Environmental Cost Assessment of Lighting at UC Berkeley
Layla Chamberlin
Case Study: Evaluating Teaching and Environmental Literacy Education in Alameda Unified School District Middle Schools
Dara Sengchanthavong
Synthesizing the Relationship Between Environmental Racism and Educational Attainment for Southeast Asian Youth in North Orange County, CA
Kylie Murdock
The Relationship between Socioeconomic Factors and Climate Denial in the United States
Uthara Vengrai
Compost Application Effects on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions Along the Climatic Gradient of California Grasslands
Lucy Bennett
Can Crop Drought Resilience Be Improved with Alternative Soil Management Methods Via Mycorrhizal Fungal Associations?
Dana Price
A Comparative Fava Bean Growth Assay Using Berkeley's
Municipal Solid Waste Compost
Emily H&?oslash;u
Parasitic Hymenopteran Food and Habitat Preferences in Urban Agriculture
Charlotte Favre
Species Composition and Location Relative to Highways of Roadkill in Idaho
Yumna Zia
Black Bear Hibernation in the California Sierra Nevada
Natasha Thompson
Geospatial Analysis and Prediction of Human - Panther (Puma concolor coryi) Depredations in Collier County, Florida (2005-2018)
Cambrie Congdon
Effects of environmental variables on northern elephant seal thermoregulation on the Southeast Farallon Island
Celia Rodriguez
Effects of Artichoke Thistle Management on Grassland Regeneration in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park
Carol Tsai
Categorizing River Networks into Functional Process Zones using Geographic Information Systems
These studies were undertaken by seniors in the Environmental Sciences Group Major, a program administered by the Department of Enviromental Science, Policy, and Management in the Rausser College of Natural Resources 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 2019 to Spring 2020 Senior Research Seminars.