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Senior Theses from 2024

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The Lives I’ve Yet to Live, Emma Merk

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The Korean Hanok as a Model for Sustainable Architecture in South Korea, Jordan Oh

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Impact of Highway Proximity on Air Quality: An Analysis of Los Angeles County & Harris County, Claudia Quintero

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Mobile Food Displacement and Formalization: A Case Study of Portland’s Block 216, Marcello Ursic

Senior Theses from 2023

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Air Pollution and the Case for Reparations Among African American Communities in Los Angeles, California, jaela alvarez

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Radioactive, Internal Colonialism: The Uranium Industry’s Historic and Current Impact on the Navajo Nation, Sophie Arens

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Decolonial Foodurisms: From Plantations to Agricultural Spaces of Intersectional Healing, Dominic Arzadon

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From Building to Dwelling: Unfolding Infinity through Bioregional Fulfillment, Sanjana Bhatnagar

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The Prison Industrial Complex: A Microcosm of Environmental Justice As A Human Rights Issue, Isabella Brusco

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¡Hay comida en la casa! - There Is Food at Home!, Gabriela Camacho

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Grieving Climate Change: A Psychological and Personal Exploration of Emotionally Processing the Climate Crisis, Hava Chishti

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Utilizing Multiple Analysis of Petrocalcic Soils to Determine Potential Environmental Factors, Cecilia Compton

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Contemplative Nearby Nature: A Design Proposal for Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Russell Corbin

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Timber Island: A Screenplay, Lucas Cunningham

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Treasure Island: Gold Dust or Radioactive Soil?, Ari Daniels

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The Green Campus: A Report on Tree Carbon Storage and Sequestration on Pomona College Campus, Leona A. Das

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AN ANCIENT THREAD OF “INSEPARABLE ONENESS”: A Theoretical Exploration of Community and Kinship in Grassroots Environmental Justice Movements, Izzy Dean

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Redesigning Pitzer's East Mesa Parking Lot, Maisie deBruyn

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Investigating the Role of Flowering Phenology in the Invasion of Viola odorata, Catherine Donson

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How to Build a World: Stereoscopes, Tourism, and Land in Zion National Park, Emma Duggleby

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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land: Environmental Education Curriculum at Federal Indian Schools as a Conduit for Colonial Violence and the Native Resistance and Resilience With Which It Was Met, Isabel Evans

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FOSSIL FUELS IN DISGUISE: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CARBON CAPTURE STORAGE IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY, Medha Gelli

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Warehouses in the Inland Empire: Displacing Land and Life, Katherine Gelsey

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Let Us Be The Fish Who Grow Legs: A Curriculum Guide for Linking Prison Industrial Complex Abolition, Environmental Justice, and State Power, Tess Gibbs

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QUANTIFYING THE CARBON STORED AND SEQUESTERED BY THE TREES ON POMONA COLLEGE’S CAMPUS, Paola A. Giron-Carson

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Weaving Testimonio and Territory in La Comuna Ancestral Las Tunas, María J Durán González

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Concrete Everywhere: A Project-Based Analysis of the Unequal Distribution of Warehouses in Fontana, Chanah Haigh

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The Stateless Agent: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Transboundary Air Pollution in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Region of the U.S.-Mexico Border, Elizabeth Hernandez

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Entangled Mangrove Roots: The Shrimp Industry, Ancestral Afro-Descendant People, and Community Resistance in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, O'philia Le

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La Puerta Park, Graeme F. Logan

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Breakwater: Anti-Blackness in Geoscience Lessons from Long Beach, CA, Christina Marsh

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Redefining Community in the Age of the Internet: Will the Internet of Things (IoT) generate sustainable and equitable community development?, Carson Martinez

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Bicycling for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Comparing Urban Transformations in Paris and Bogotá, Luba Masliy

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Reaching Gleaners and Raising Awareness: A Toolkit for Uncommon Good's Community Gleaning Program, Gabriella Meerwarth

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GLEAN MACHINES: Creating a Gleaning Toolkit for Uncommon Good, Elizabeth Messinger

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An Analysis of Water Quality at Orange County, California Beaches, Naomi Meurice

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The Role of Gleaning in Cultivating Community Food Security, Katja Reich

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Variation in soil-mediated drought response traits between sympatric species of Mimulus, Anna Reitman

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Grain-Washing: The Issue with Corn Ethanol as a Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Emily J. Rinn

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La Floresta; an appreciation and reimagination of my barrio, Ana Rodríguez

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The History of Environmental Justice and Grassroots Activism and An Analysis of New York State's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, Eleanor Tahbaz

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From Bloom to Bouquet: Unearthing the Toxic Cut Flower Industry, Addie Wasikonis

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Miniscule and Might Predators: A Cautionary Tale of the Power of Mosquitoes in California and the Greater United States, Benjamin Willett

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Growing Culturally Relevant Food at the Urban Farm: An Examination of Sovereign Foodways, Place-Making Practices, and Autonomous Identity-Shaping, Dahlia Bess Zail

Senior Theses from 2022

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Power in numbers: an abundance of small corals responsible for storing over half of the carbon stored by all Alaskan Primnoa pacifica deep-sea corals, Sylvie Alexander

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Deconstructing U.S. Army Maps of Korea: A Case Study for Rethinking Historical Environmental Data, Lee Beckwith

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Soil and Soul: Fostering Cultural Healing Through Reconnection to the Land, Makeda Bullock Floyd

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Examining Soil Microbial Diversity in Transition Zones between Corn Fields and Restored Prairie in the Upper Midwest, Anna M. Burns

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Footprints on the Prairie: Examining the Interlocking Land Histories of the Liberty Prairie Reserve, Illinois, Anna M. Burns

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Roots and Resilience: Reimagining Marston Quad After the Windstorm, Maya Edstrom

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Re-imagining Design for Affordable Housing in Mexico, Kenza Fernandez Dominguez

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Re-imagining Design for Affordable Housing in Mexico, Kenza Fernandez Dominguez

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Painting Colonialism Green: Understanding colonial ecology through the lens of Palestinian art, Lily Hibbard

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Sharing the Shore: Hybridity and Developing Environmentalisms in the Indiana Dunes, Olivia Klein

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Agroecology Curriculum Proposal, Emily Kuhn

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Visualizing an Anti-Capitalist Future Amidst a Commodified Landscape: Learning from the African Savanna Elephant, Eloise Magoncelli

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Hungies? Me too: Food Insecurity on College Campuses as it pertains to BIPOC, Low-Income and/or First-Generation Students, Zury Marroquin

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Localizing Food Waste Management: A Social Benefit-Cost Analysis of Aerobic Composters, Aurora Massari

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Out of This World: Imagination(s) Under Capitalism, Julia H. McCartan

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Validation of the Use of Clathromorphum compactum Growth and Skeletal δ18O as a Proxy for Seawater Conditions, Teagan McMahon

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The Heirloom as Evidence: Investigating the Colonial Trace Preserved within my Family’s Sandalwood Box, Olivia Meehan

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Beyond The Technical Dimensions of Water: Community-Based Efforts for Water Justice in the High Desert, Ella Meyer

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Drought Tolerant Landscaping Trends in Claremont, California, Serena Myjer

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Spatial Geochemical Changes in Central and East Texas Soils over Time Resulting from Human Decomposition, Isabela Marisol Overturf

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Home/land Security: Asian Settlers, Native Hawaiians, and Claims to Belonging in "Hawaiian" Fiction, Alice Shinn

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LOCALS ONLY: The Postcolonial Exotic and Representations of Asian Settlers and Native Hawaiians in “Hawaiian” Literature, Alice Shinn

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Disaster Art, Kali Tindell-Griffin

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Forest Offsets in the California Carbon Market: Challenges of a Market Based Climate Solution, Eric Warmoth

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Tales of Urban Livability- Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles As Told by Tree Canopy Cover, Hoi Cheng Wong

Senior Theses from 2021

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CAFOs In The Crossfire: Environmental Policy And The Equine Industry, Toni Anderson

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Intertidal Responses to ENSO Patterns, Evie L. Andrade

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Building a Just Transition: Creating a Community Engagement Strategy for Building Electrification Policy in the City of Riverside, Emma Barker

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“Biomimicry: Sustainable Agriculture and Architecture Design”, Camille Barreto

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When Disparities Become Deadly: Spatial Differences in PM2.5 Levels Within the City of Pomona, California, Pauline Bekkers

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Navigating Obstacles to Environmental Conservation: How NGOs Emerge as Effective Environmental Stewards, Chris Clark

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Waves of Colonialism and Whitewashing Legacies: A Critical Analysis of Race in the Dominant Surf Narrative, Jennifer Franklin

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Connecting Youth to Nature: Environmental Education’s Role in the Future of Wellbeing and Stewardship, Claire Generous

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Heavenly Rocks: An Artistic Response to the Fetishistic Love and Philosophical Appreciation of Exotic Rocks in Classical Chinese Gardens, Beihua Guo

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The Right to the City: San Francisco's Chinatown Before and After the 1906 Earthquake, Alexandra Hsu

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Greening the Economy While Centering Justice: A Case Study of Green Business Incentives in Riverside, California, Vanessa Lincoln

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Filtering Out the Effects of Zebra Mussels: Climate, Land Use, and Water Clarity in Minnesota Lakes, Kristina Linder

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The Intersection Between Black Hair and the Environment: Hair as a Site for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Dafina Matiku

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Influence of Iceberg-Discharge Events on the Climate and Circulation of the Central North Atlantic Ocean During the Last Glaciation, Ava McIlvaine

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Come Closer: Geographies of Care, Anam Mehta

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THE SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT (SGMA): LONG OVERDUE, BUT IS IT LIVING UP TO ITS POTENTIAL?, Bailey Mknelly

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The Quasi-Natural Santa Ana River: A Historical Perspective, Moira Mulhern

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Assessing the Significance of Substrate Color and Temperature on Balanus glandula Growth and Survivorship, Nhi Phan

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Exploring the COVID-19 Experience of Young Adult Latinos in Rural California: Insights into Mental Health & The Immigrant Health Paradox, Vivianna Plancarte

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Optical Hygiene and Modernity: A Site Analysis of Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant Using Lefebvre’s Triad, William R. Stone

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Theory and Praxis of the Barbara Drake Memorial Library at the Robert Redford Conservancy in Claremont, California, Sandra Sublette

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Growing Food Sovereignty in Community Gardens, Kathryn Tuemmler

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The Effect of Drought and Exotic Species on the Post-Fire Response of Artemisia californica, Carolyn Weisman

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Twin Threats: The Short-Sighted US Response to Global Climate Change and Pandemics, Bryan Williams

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Captives & Spoils in Chicago: Examining the Columbian Exposition’s Triumphal Procession of 1893, Kazandra Zelaya

Senior Theses from 2020

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Plastics Derived From Derelict Fishing Gear in the Arctic: Looking at Sustainable Fisheries for a Strategy of Mitigation, Remediation and Prevention in Iceland and Alaska, Natalie S. Armstrong

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The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary: An Exploration of Changing the Discourse on Conservation, Arielle Ben-Hur

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Unaccepted Streets in Bayview Hunters Point: Addressing Spatial Injustice Through Public Open Space, Clare Blackwell

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Development of Discourse and Criteria in Green Building, Ben Bronstein

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The Living Community Challenge: An unCase Study in Biophilic Master Planning, Jordan Grimaldi

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The Continued Legacy of German Naturalness Contextualized Within a Fraught History and Issues of Inclusion, Eleanor Grosse