ESYS Senior Projects 2017-2018
| Organization | Topic | Site Supervisor | Faculty Mentor |
| County of San Diego, Parks and Recreation | Ambrosia Conservation with US Fish and Wildlife Service | Clark Winchell | Ron Burton |
| Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego | Measuring Arthropod Biodiversity in Urban Green Spaces in UC San Diego's Campus | Dr. Heather Henter | Heather Henter |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Understanding population structure and bloom dynamics of the Pyrosomatida in the California Current System | Linsey Sala | Ohman, Mark D. |
| City of Santee | Green Infrastructure Design Strategies for Storm Water Management | Cecelia Tipton | Julie Beth Hinds |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | Manzanita Canyon Restoration and Advising | Theresa Sinicrope Talley | Talley, Theresa S. |
| Global ARC | Food and health literacy in an urbanized and ethnically diverse community | Paul Watson | Pezzoli, Keith |
| UC San Diego | Enhancing Undergraduate Education on Climate Change | Corey Gabriel | Teranes, Jane |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Atmospheric Aerosol Group - research on the level of nitrogen in seabird guano in La Jolla. |
Lynn Russell | Lynn Russell |
| Kasai consulting | Kasai consulting Internship | Dave Burcin | Lynn Russell |
| UC San Diego Sustainability Resource Center | Create a proposal for a new large-scale biodigestor facility at UC San Diego | David Weil | Allen, Eric |
| UC San Diego Environmental Health and Safety | Campus Stormwater Compliance, Planning, and Implementation | Amanda Loeper | Juli Beth Hinds |
| Cabrillo National Monument | Phenology of local plants at Cabrillo National Monument | Tavio Del Rio | Eric Allen |
| San Diego Coastkeeper | Evaluating San Diego Coastkeeper's Impact on Environmental Literacy in the Classroom | Sandra Lebron | Heather Henter |
| City of San Diego Environmental Services | Factors and limitations of sustainable choices | Gavin Broatch | Mark Jacobson |
| City of San Diego Transportation and Storm water | City of San Diego Storm Water Planning and Permitting | Antoinette Gibbs | Vicki Grassian |
| University of California Natural Reserve System | Restoration of the Transition-Upland zone at the Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve | Isabelle Kay | Isabelle Kay |
| City of San Diego - Park and Recreation, Open Space | Monitoring of Wildlife Habitat Usage in City of San Diego Open Space | Sara Allen | Driscoll, Neal |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Glycogen stores in bleached and unbleached coral | Martin Tresguerres, PhD | Martin Tresguerres |
| Division of Biological Sciences, Nieh Lab | Nieh lab research internship on honey bee behavior. | James Nieh | Nieh, James |
| UC San Diego EH&S | Assist with implementing Phase II Small MS4 General Permit compliance activities for the campus, focusing on littering behaviors | Kimberly O'Connell | Julibeth Hinds |
| City of San Diego - Transportation & Storm Water | Storm Water Policy and Watershed Planning | Julia Chase | Bergman, Matthew E. |
| UCSD Sustainability Resource Center | Facilitate waste diversion in public schools to reduce the amount of material that goes into landfills. | Jennifer Bowser | Talley, Theresa S. |
| I Love A Clean San Diego | Classroom: Community Program Interns | Nikolas Kennedy | Eric Allen |
| Turtle Island Restoration Network Advocacy Internship | Researching the market for swordfish in CA and build community support to reduce the consumption of unsustainable seafood. | Cassie Burdyshaw, JD | Jennifer Taylor |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Correlating Eustatic fluctuations, Coastal Metamorphosis, and sediment supply rates through sediment stratigraphy offshore & nearshore of Santa Clara River, Ventura, CA | Neal Driscoll | Driscoll, Neal |
| UC San Diego Environmental Health and Safety | Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan | Kevin Libby | Jacobsen, Mark |
| WSP | CEQA/NEPA environmental documents for infrastructure projects | Theresa Dickerson | Peerson, Susan R. |
| University of California Natural Reserve System | Assessing success of Restoration project at Kendall Frost Marsh | Isabelle Kay | Heather Henter |
| City of San Diego - Transportation & Storm Water | City of San Diego Storm Water Policy & Enforcement | Victoria Kalkirtz | Allen, Eric |
| San Diego River Park Foundation | Ecological surveying and GPS mapping of polluted sites and invasive species | Benjamin Downing | Talley, Theresa S. |
| San Diego River Park Foundation | Ecological Restoration and Monitoring | Shannon Quigley-Raymond | Elsa Cleland |
| Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego | Tijuana River Valley Community Garden Expansion | Ann Baldridge | Eric Allen |
| I Love A Clean San Diego | Exploring Effective Techniques for Educating Informal Audiences on Environmental Issues | Alaine Ibarreche | Cook, Geoffrey |
| City of San Diego - Park and Recreation, Open Space | GPS Related data collection and fieldwork of sensitive and invasive plants | Sara Allen | Elsa Cleland |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Climate Change and Health: Examining Wildfires in California | Tarik Benmarhnia | Tarik Benmarhnia |
| San Diego River Park Foundation | San Diego River Water Quality Monitoring | Shannon Quigley-Raymond | Heather Henter |
| US Fish and Wildlife Service | Restoration plan for the riparian restoration of a ranch near Mesa Grande in order to establish an accommodating habitat for western pond turtles. |
Clark Winchell | Kurle, Carolyn |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | Student Initiative Manager | Bridget Altman | Cari Paulinich |
| San Diego Coastkeeper | Educational Outreach Programs at San Diego Coastkeeper | Stephanie Ritter | Aluwihare, Lihini I. |
| UC Natural Reserve System | Engage campus students and the greater community with the Scripps Coastal Reserve | Isabelle Kay | Lisa Tauxe |
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pleuroncodes Planipes | Jennifer Taylor | Jennifer Taylor |
| UC San Diego Blum Cross Border Initiative | Mitigating Wastewater Contamination and Sediment Erosion in San Diego-Tijuana River Valley Estuary | Kyle Hanes | Forman-Barzilai, Fonna |
| Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego | Development of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cell lines for use in production of biofuels and bioproducts. | Frank Fields | Mayfield, Stephen P. |
| Center for Sustainable Energy | Center for Sustainable Energy in carrying out the San Diego Region's Clean Cities Coalition | Michael Terreri | Bussell, Mirle |
| Sustainability Resource Center - UC San Diego | UC San Diego Arboretum and gardens | Jennifer Bowser | Keith Pezzoli |
| Division of Biological Sciences, Nieh Lab | The conjunctive effects of Nosema ceranae and flupyradifurone on Apis mellifera learning and memory | Heather Broccard-Bell | Nieh, James |
| San Diego River Park Foundation | Outcome evaluation of three day education programs at San Diego River Park Foundation | Ally Welborn | Herbst, Matthew |
| US Fish and Wildlife Service | Tracking compliance with Section 7 consultations and Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) under the federal Endangered Species Act. | Lauren Kershek | Cleland, Elsa |
| UC Natural Reserve System | Assisting UC natural Reserve System with various projects to the four reserve ares | Isabelle Kay | Lisa Tauxe |
| San Diego River Park Foundation | Urban restoration Internship with the San Diego River Park Foundation | Tiffany Swiderski | Bergman, Matthew E. |
| UC San Diego Environmental Health and Safety | Revision of UC San Diego's campus SSMP | Valerie Fanning | Bussell, Mirle |
| J. Craig Venture Institute | Biosynthetic Pathway of Comoic Acid Production in Pseudo-nitzschia Diatoms | Patrick Brunson | Andy Allen |
| UC San Diego Environmental Health and Safety | UC San Diego Green Labs Project | Valerie Fanning | Kleissl, Jan |