Senior Theses from 2027
Bearpaw Reserve Wildlife Monitoring and Mapping with The Wildlands Conservancy, Hope Hansen
Senior Theses from 2026
ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS ON CALIFORNIA MUSSEL SHELL MORPHOLOGY: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A MULTI-TIERED POLLUTION INDEX, Ana Beatriz Oba Bastos
California mussel (Mytilus californianus) tissue and shells as biomarkers of wildfire-related heavy metal inputs to southern California coastal environments, Samantha Campbell
Seasonal Rainfall and Spatial Clustering Inform Understanding of Recruitment and Germination Cueing in Artemisia californica, Toni Azalea Coria
Analysis of δ¹¹B as a Seawater pH Proxy: Comparing Ocean Circulation Inverse Model Output with Marine Calcifier Geochemistry, Jesse I. Dong
Analyzing Avian Postfire Recovery: The Effect of an Unburned Patch, Janie Fingal
Warehouse Automation in the Inland Empire: An Environmental and Mathematical Analysis, Leah Glasser
ALPHA APPETITE: MEAT, MASCULINITY, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF IDENTITY IN AN ERA OF CLIMATE CRISIS, Isara S. Greacen
Moral Implication and the Limits of Ethical Consumption, Isa Greer
Translocal Environmental Organizing and The Politics of Replication in the Just Transition, Paige Hazen
Madison, Wisconsin as a Climate Haven: Infrastructure, Environmental Justice, and Community Voice, Sophia N. Heffner
Cycling For All: Designing with the "Invisible Cyclist" as a Pathway Towards Urban Sustainability and Citizenship, Eloise Heimert
SAVING MONO LAKE: ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE AS AN ACTIVIST AND LEGAL TACTIC, Fiona Herbold
Hahai Nō ka Ua i ka Ululāʻau: A Proposed Study on the Impacts of Invasion on Forest Infiltration Capacity in Hawaiʻi, Carol Hutchison
Geography of Erasure: Manufactured Housing, Heat Exposure, and State Neglect in Florida, Gianna M. Hutton
Doikayt and the Ethics of Belonging: Lessons in Place-Making from the Jewish Labor Bund, Zoë L. Jacobs
Climate Change in an Educational Context: a Model Addressing Psychological Distance, Hope, and Concern, Brooke E. Kasl-Godley
Beyond the Biomedical: Birthing Justice Through Midwifery and Community-Centered Care, Claire F. Kotapish
Assessing the Impact of Wildfire Recurrence Intervals on Saxicolous Lichens in Southern California Chaparral, Willow Lehrich
Agency of Different Actors in China Through the Utilization of Community-Level Environmental Education, Matthew K. Leung
Rethinking Climate Change Education: Wyoming and New Jersey as Effective Models of Climate Change in Education Standards, Jamie W. Miller
Environmental Values and the Politics of Grizzly Bear Management in the Twenty-first Century, Molly Murphey
Assessing Environmental Factors and Breeding Habitat Suitability for California Newts in the San Gabriel Mountains, Ainsley K. Murphy
Rural Electric Cooperatives as the Roots of Community-owned Energy in the US, Mari Nishitani
Shell Hash Mitigation Procedures to Moderate Intertidal Sediment Acidification in the Mytilus Genus in Congruence with Ceramic Interventions, Alessandra L. Samson
Public Art’s Role in Urban Transformation in New York City: 5 Pointz and the High Line, Shelby Stanton
Senior Theses from 2025
Verification of Real-Time Smoke Simulations: A Case Study on Early Summer North American Wildfire Events, Daniel Bonilla
BRIDGING THE GREEN DIVIDE: Sustainable Community Development and Climate Resilience in Altadena, CA, Katie Brosnan
Crisis in the Current: A Proposed Study on the Impact of Columbia River Basin Water Quality on Juvenile Chinook Salmon Survival, Olivia Buist-Thuillier
The San Francisco Bay Area’s Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise: Integrating Community Engagement and Equity into Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning, Isabella Marie Carreon
Huchum: The Legacy of Fire Suppression, Indigenous Land Management, and Media Representation, Carolyn Coyne
Feeding Frenzy: Tastemakers and Food Influencers in the Age of Social Media, Iris Ducker
Swimming in Sh*t: Quantifying Lagoon Flushing Impacts on Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Surf Zones of Three Beaches on the East End of Long Island, NY, Brody C. Eggert
Indigenous vs Western Land Management Strategies in the Pacific Islands, Catherine Farley
The New Urbanism in New York City: A Case Study Comparing Battery Park City and Alphabet City, Lena Farley
Dinner Was Literally Garbage: Tracking Inter-Annual Trends in Plastic Ingestion by Hawaiian Laysan Albatrosses, Grace Florendo
Three Case Studies for Urban Renewal in the Post War American University: Situating Claremont in Urban Renewal Histories, Elizabeth Flores
Drowned in Promises: Flooded Histories and the Struggle for Justice in the Pajaro Valley, Maya Forgus
Exploration of College Campus Design: Centering Community in Urban Life, Ella Francis
In Harmony: The Environmental Lives of Marianne North, Beatrix Farrand, and Mary Hunter Austin, Willa Frank
Breaking From The Herd: Cost-Benefit And Cultural Analysis Of Intensive, Adaptive Multi-Paddock Grazing On Six Shooter Ranch, Sydney Hamel
From Feedlot to Floor Vote: How Animal Agribusiness Wields Power to Capture the American State, Hannah Hughes
The Dirt Underneath My Fingernails: The American Pastoral and 21st-Century Food System Reform, Annabella Isaacson
Plantation Matters: The Black Production of Space in Southeastern Louisiana, 1830 to 1912, Noura Jabir
Humans Among Giants: Urban Vitality and Implications of Vertical Development in Hong Kong, Laura Jaramillo
Sacred Waters Clinic: Outreach and Tribal History in the Santa Ana Watershed, Callie Johnson
ARENAS OF RESISTANCE: How Oklahoma's Black Rodeos Preserved Environmental Wisdom and Community Power, Rorie Johnson
Assessing the Threat: A Survey of Goldspotted Oak Borer Infestation in Bearpaw Reserve, Katherine Kett
Visions of the Garden: Transforming the Former Claremont Golf Course into the Coastal Sage Mosaic, Ella C. Kim
New Life Begins: Establishing an Environmental Analysis Major at Scripps College, Amalia M. Koch
Developing a method for use and evaluating the accuracy of QuPath for analyzing blood smears of California Towhees (Melozone crissalis), Catherine Lehmann
A Longitudinal Theory of Planned Behavior Study on Metro Rail Ridership in Los Angeles, Annika Livingston-Hall
El Maíz del Abuelo: Fidel Márquez Sanchez’s Legacy and Mexico’s Historical Maize Agriculture, Lucia Marquez-Uppman
From Fields to Fast Foods: Food Culture, Identity, and Health in Puerto Rico under the U.S. Empire, Ivanna Morales Mercado
BEYOND THE BIN: Transforming Relationships with Waste Through a Collaborative Inquiry-Based Environmental Education Curriculum, Kaylee V. Morris
Soil Quality and Fertility of Urban Soils in the Inland Empire, R Mukherjee
Counter-Insurgency as Colonial Violence: The Red-Tagging of Lumad Schools in the Philippines, Sydney Nemetz
From Crisis to Innovation: A Multi-Source Renewable Microgrid for Rural Resilience, James Nielsen
Feeding the System: A Political Ecology of Stakeholders in the Soy Value Chain, Calli E. ONeal
Stable Isotope Analysis and Localization of Copper Carbonates (Malachite and Azurite) within the Bisbee-Warren Mining Region, Arizona, Sarah R. Paper
The Solar Maya: Resilience and Strength in the Face of Climate Change, Anna Frances Paradise
Reframing Progress: The battle over the Lower Snake River dams, Marin Plut
THE CHESAPEAKE PEARL: A Proposal for an Environmental Public Art Installation, Samuel I. Reichard
Plant-based Versus Animal-based Diets: Which is Better?, Olivia Reichle
Evaluating the Effects of Aerial Fire Retardants on Soil Chemistry: A Bridge Fire Case Study, Elise Ringness
Breathing a New Life into Industrialized Cities: Adapting Warehouses in the Inland Empire, Mazzy Rosenast
Adaptation Vs. Mitigation: Venture Capital Investment Trends in Climate Technologies, Sidney Smith IV
MAPPING THE TREN MAYA’S MARK ON MÉRIDA, Diego Tamayo
Protecting California’s Oak Forests: An Evaluation of the Prevalence of the Gold Spotted Oak Borer in Bearpaw Reserve, Lucy S. Thomas
A Comparative Analysis on Geothermal Energy in Kenya and California, Sia Were
SPACE FOR THE DEPARTED: BURIAL, LAND SCARCITY, AND BONE-ASH APARTMENTS IN CHINA, Xinyi Wu
Wellbeing Against the Odds: Confronting Obstacles to Collective Wellbeing in Greater Los Angeles, Ethan H. Yao
Cultivating Food Justice: A Reframing of Farm-to-Table Food Systems in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point, Isabel Yau-Weeks
Farming as Life: Reframing Smallholder Farming as a Site of Self-Sufficiency and Cultural Heritage in Botswana, Natasha Yen
Senior Theses from 2024
The Ecological Underpinnings of Famine: Irish Agriculture and Land Use Under British Colonialism, 1534-1852, Wyatt Bandy-Page
Improving Accessibility and Understanding: Studying the Impact of Human Activities and Dam Removals on Anadromous Fish Species in the Pacific Northwest, Adia F. Bennett
The Effects of Seaweed Farming on Local Ecosystems in the United States, Reid Cohen
Migration-Associated Variation in Blood Parasitism, Body Condition, and Stress in Gambel’s White-Crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii), Julianna Deibel
Roadblocks Ahead: High-Speed Rail Setbacks in the United States—Reflections and Ramifications, Sophie Dorn
Exploring the Potential Role of Fungal Communities on Forest Restoration, Destiny Garcia
Quantifying Enrichment of Metals and Inorganic Ions in Sea Spray Aerosols, David C. Gorman and Charles J. Taylor
A Regenerative Future: The Intersection of Agriculture Practices, Partnership, and Economics in San Joaquin Valley, Jada Higgins
From Fork to Farm: Strategies to Expand Onsite Composting and Reduce Compost Contamination at Pomona College, Grace Hill
Resistance and Resilience in a New Era of Labor Suppression: SITRACHIRI Banana Workers Union in Costa Rica, Grace Hill
Environmental Effects of Planned Wastewater Releases from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Grant Ho
Corporate Influence at Public Universities: Upholding the Conventional Agricultural Paradigm, Michaela Jones
Costuming the Californian Apocalypse: Sartorial Speculations of Los Angeles's Future, Isabel Kramer
Drought Incidence and Fire Hazard in the Sierra Nevada Forest Foothills, 2022-23, Kushnerniva Laurent
Turning from the Streets to the Courts: Assessing the Extrajudicial Effects of Litigation as a Strategy in the Climate Justice Movement, Journey Lipscomb
