Senior Theses from 2021
Waves of Colonialism and Whitewashing Legacies: A Critical Analysis of Race in the Dominant Surf Narrative, Jennifer Franklin
Connecting Youth to Nature: Environmental Education’s Role in the Future of Wellbeing and Stewardship, Claire Generous
The Right to the City: San Francisco's Chinatown Before and After the 1906 Earthquake, Alexandra Hsu
Greening the Economy While Centering Justice: A Case Study of Green Business Incentives in Riverside, California, Vanessa Lincoln
Filtering Out the Effects of Zebra Mussels: Climate, Land Use, and Water Clarity in Minnesota Lakes, Kristina Linder
The Intersection Between Black Hair and the Environment: Hair as a Site for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Dafina Matiku
Influence of Iceberg-Discharge Events on the Climate and Circulation of the Central North Atlantic Ocean During the Last Glaciation, Ava McIlvaine
Come Closer: Geographies of Care, Anam Mehta
THE SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT (SGMA): LONG OVERDUE, BUT IS IT LIVING UP TO ITS POTENTIAL?, Bailey Mknelly
The Quasi-Natural Santa Ana River: A Historical Perspective, Moira Mulhern
Exploring the COVID-19 Experience of Young Adult Latinos in Rural California: Insights into Mental Health & The Immigrant Health Paradox, Vivianna Plancarte
Optical Hygiene and Modernity: A Site Analysis of Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant Using Lefebvre’s Triad, William R. Stone
Theory and Praxis of the Barbara Drake Memorial Library at the Robert Redford Conservancy in Claremont, California, Sandra Sublette
Growing Food Sovereignty in Community Gardens, Kathryn Tuemmler
The Effect of Drought and Exotic Species on the Post-Fire Response of Artemisia californica, Carolyn Weisman
Twin Threats: The Short-Sighted US Response to Global Climate Change and Pandemics, Bryan Williams
Captives & Spoils in Chicago: Examining the Columbian Exposition’s Triumphal Procession of 1893, Kazandra Zelaya
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
Migration and Women’s Relationships to the Land and Food in Myanmar, Allison Joseph
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: The Impacts of Broadcast News on 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
