Senior Theses from 2020
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
The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary: An Exploration of Changing the Discourse on Conservation, Arielle Ben-Hur
Unaccepted Streets in Bayview Hunters Point: Addressing Spatial Injustice Through Public Open Space, Clare Blackwell
Development of Discourse and Criteria in Green Building, Ben Bronstein
The Living Community Challenge: An unCase Study in Biophilic Master Planning, Jordan Grimaldi
The Continued Legacy of German Naturalness Contextualized Within a Fraught History and Issues of Inclusion, Eleanor Grosse
Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Reconsidering Our Paradigm of Water Pollution, Jonathan Gunasti
Urban Renewal or Urban Legend? Re-Historicizing Human-River Relationships Disrupted by Displacement Before and Now in Los Angeles, Jamie Sophia Helberg
Towards a Resilient Future: Federal Policies for Adapting the U.S. Coasts to Climate Change, Samuel Horowitz
A Dirty Renewable: How Trash Incineration Became Classified as Renewable Energy, Emma Hsu
Foster Rhodes Jackson and the Visual Conquest of the West, Eve Kaufman
Enlivening Spaces for the Dead: The Relevance of Cemeteries in the 21st Century, Caroline Koh Smith
Finding and Fighting for a Future of Bicycles in Boise, Idaho, Kyle Lenhart-Wees
Climate Translators: Broadcast New's Contribution to the Political Divide over Climate Change in the United States, Dylan V. Macy
Shrimp Farming in Thailand: A pathway to Sustainability, Warinyupa Phornprapha
Rights, Water, and Guardians: How Rights of Nature Movements are Reshaping our Current Environmental Ethics and What These Policies Need to be Successful, Megan Schmiesing
Kibble Me This: The Scientific and Cultural Debate Over Boutique, Exotic, and Grain-Free Canine Nutrition, Anne Shalamoff
Rethinking Livability in Megacities: Applications of Jane Jacobs’ Theories on Tokyo and Los Angeles, Kirara Tsutsui
Climate Policies From California and New York, Catherine Ward
An Examination of the Wrongful Exploitation of Mexican Farmworkers in the United States, Eva N. Wertimer
ENVIRONMENT IN CRISIS: SEEKING AN AFROFUTURIST PERSPECTIVE, Simone Wolynski
Paraisong Nawala: Exploring Sustainable Ecotourism in the Philippines, Samantha Barrios Yu
Anti-Colonial Foodways: Food Sovereignty in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Clara Zervigon
Situating Asian American Environmental (In)Justices through Radical History Walking Tours, Yuxin Zhou
Senior Theses from 2019
Best Practices to Encourage Landfill Diversion in Waste Management Programs, Sondra Abruzzo
Why CSAs Matter: (re)localizing for people-based food networks, Gretchen Alexander
Campaigning on an Environmental Justice Platform: Irmalinda Osuna for Upland City Council, District 3, Jenny Bekenstein
The Homecoming of the Negro Spirit: Black Spiritual Intelligence as a Structural Form of Intelligence, Quincy Brown
Women in the Wage Economy: A New Gendered Division of Labor Amongst the Inuit, Hannah Buehler
The Sea Turtle as a Marketing Symbol for the Anti-Plastics Movement, Hannah Chiu
Shizen Nōhō: Restoring the Relationship Between Food, Nature, and People in Japan, Katharine Graham
The Mark of the Japanese Murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume): A study of song and stewardship in Japan’s Inland Sea, Charlotte Hyde
Progressive and Conservative Efforts in Climate Change Flood Adaptation: A Study of Four Coastal States, Caroline jaeger
Island Invasion: The Silent Crisis in Hawaii, Sophia Janssen
Exploring Transit-Based Environmental Injustices in San Gabriel Valley and Greater Los Angeles, Bailey Lai
Fragile Oceans, Synthetic Flotsam and Microbial Collaboration – Explorations in the Visual Communication of the Plastic Crisis, Ivan Langesfeld
Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating the Transition to Electric Vehicles, Nicole Larson
South of Sacramento: an Implementation and Effectiveness Analysis of Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Zaidee H. Laughlin
Radioactive Contamination, Superfund Remediation, and Green Gentrification in San Francisco’s Hunters Point, Lawrie Mankoff
Landlocked Landfills and the Invasion of Waste: Environmental Injustice as seen in Solid Waste Management in Rural Alaskan Villages, Kate McWilliams
From Cars to Complete Streets: Integrating Bicycles Into Seattle's Transportation Network, Natalie Quek
Desde el barrio hasta afuera, From the Neighborhood Out: Building Sustainable Cities and Empowering Latinx Communities in Southern California through Asset-Based Community Development, Vannesa Reyes Salazar
Facilitating Experience through Fabrication and Blue Biophilic Design, Teague Scanlon
Let's Get Sorted: The Path to Zero Waste at Pomona College, Sara Sherburne
Mapping Development in Cameroon: Challenging Dominant Narratives, Hannah Skutt
Belonging While Black at Lake Merritt: The Black Spatial Imaginary and Place-Making in Oakland, CA, Betel Solomon Tesfamariam
In the Eye of the Storm: Houston after Hurricane Harvey, Brandon Tolentino-Serrano
Restoring Reciprocity: Indigenous Knowledges and Environmental Education, Mireya Valencia
Farm to Label: A Critique of Consumer Activism in the Sustainable Food Movement, Olivia Whitener
On the Brink of Extinction: The Fate of the Pacific Northwest's Southern Resident Killer Whales, Sabrina Wilk
Mapping Land Use Around the San Francisco Bay: A Look at Environmental Justice through S. F. Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Permitting History, Aviva R. Wolf-Jacobs
Senior Theses from 2018
An Assessment of the Sharing Economy and Its Policy Solutions Through the Lens of Sustainability, Chloe An
Conserving the San Gabriels: A Historical Analysis of the Management of the San Gabriel Mountains, Jack Carroll
Unity in Difference: an Exploration of Spatial Justice and Environmental Justice in Los Angeles, Minah Choi
Using Renewable Energy to Increase Tribal Sovereignty: A Feasibility Study for a Biomass Energy Plant on the Cocopah Reservation, Lauren Katrina D'Souza
Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Ōkahu Bay: Investigation of a Community Driven Restoration Process, Emily Freilich
Restoration of Mauri (Life-Force) to Okahu Bay: Investigation of the Cultural, Social, and Environmental Restoration, Emily Freilich
Sustainable End-of-Life Management for Photovoltaic Waste in California, Taylor Haas
Indigenous-led Resistance to Environmental Destruction: Methods of Anishinaabe Land Defense against Enbridge's Line 3, Charlotte Degener Hughes
Unearthing the Past: Concretions of the Jurassic Fernie Formation, Fiona Käch
Potential for Climate Induced Methane Hydrate Dissociation, Graham MacWilliams
Stagnant Nuclear Energy Policy in France: An Issue of Environmental Justice, Emma McElroy
Green Looks Good on You: The Rhetoric and Moral Identity of Conscious Consumption Blogs, Abigail O'Brien
Designing For The Continued Survival Of Wildlife: A Case Study On Wildlife Habitat Design In Australia's Alice Springs Desert Park, Maia M. Presti
Closing the Loop: Exploring IKEA’s Transition to the Circular Economy, Alexandra Seidel
Prisons, Policing, and Pollution: Toward an Abolitionist Framework within Environmental Justice, Ki'Amber Thompson
Nationalizing Nature: A Critique of the English National Trust Interpretation of Stowe Landscape Garden, Sarah Whitney
Nationalizing Nature: A Critique of the English National Trust Interpretation of Stowe Landscape Garden, Sarah Whitney
A Comparison of Historic Preservation and Project Planning: Suzhou and Pasadena, Yijing Zhang
A Comparison of Historic Preservation and Project Planning: Suzhou and Pasadena, Yijing Zhang
Sustainability-Efficiency Paradox: The Efficacy of State Energy Plans in Building a More Sustainable Energy Future, Austin Zimmerman
Senior Theses from 2017
Quantifying Carbonyl Sulfide and Other Sulfur-Containing Compounds Over the Santa Barbara Channel, Julia Black
Democracy in the Dark: An Energy Democracy Model Centering Property and People, Feby Boediarto
From Yosemite to a Global Market: How Patagonia, Inc. has Created an Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Equitable Model of Supply-Chain Management, Mary-Clare Bosco
Race, Class, and Gentrification Along the Atlanta BeltLine, Natalie Camrud
White Privilege in Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Hazardous Waste Management and Operations in Southeast Los Angeles, Lindsey Chen
Focusing Events in Environmental Policy: Exide Technologies, Aliso Canyon, and Industrial Health Crises in Southern California, Emily Chittick
Edge of Town: Cultivating a Critical Design Discourse in the Liberal Arts, Dominique Chua
Aquaponics Everywhere? An Exploration of a Growing Industry's Revolutionary Potential, Alexandra Harder
Lost Opportunities: Ecuador's Yasuní ITT Initiative, Julianna Hitchins
More Than Just a Glass Face: What Makes a "Green" or "Sustainable" Building, Exactly?, Kelli Kokame
Climate Change Adaptation for Southern California Groundwater Managers: A Case Study of the Six Basins Aquifer, Frank Lyles
The Changing Geography of Poverty in the U.S. and Its Effect on Food Insecurity: A Closer Look at the Real “O.C.”, Mallory Mackey
Social Sustainability: The Role of Ecotourism in Regenerating Cultural and Environmental Histories in Rio de Janeiro, Nia McAllister
The Smaller Things in Life: A Utilitarian Analysis of Response to Antibiotic Resistant Microorganisms as a Sustainability Dilemma, Marcus McVane
The Value of Waste: The Cycle of Products and Byproducts in Nepal’s Eastern Hills, Emily Moore
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please: Transit Equity, Social Exclusion, and the New York City Subway, Taylor Novick-Finder
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon: Indigenous Community- Owned Tourism Development in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, Hannah Sands
Drowning in Rising Seas: Navigating Multiple Knowledge Systems and Responding to Climate Change in the Maldives, Rachel Hannah Spiegel