Current and Previous Senior Projects

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1	ESYS SENIOR PROJECTS 2024-2025
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5	UC Natural Reserve System	Natural Reserve System Assistant	Help researchers with projects conducted on UCSD reserves, community outreach, assisting in land management practices	Uyeda, Kellie	Uyeda, Kellie
6	Salk Institute for Biological Sciences.	Root system Penetrability	I will be investigating root system penetrability (RSP). In the first phase my training will be focused on phenotypic validation of contrasting crop accessions under both artificial and real soil compaction conditions. Then in the second phase, I will focus on the functional characterization of candidate genes by phenotyping T-DNA mutants, gene expression analysis by qRT-PCR, generating transgenic lines that overexpress the selected gene(s), and evaluating their root system architecture and performance under both gel and soil compaction conditions.	Elohim Bello Bello	Wolfgang, Busch
7	Operations Management and Capital Programs (OMCP)	Map Compressed Air Utility into GIS	Developing new layers of air utility using GIS.	Henderson, Diana	Hetherington, Elizabeth
8	the salk institute in the busch lab	creating Salk ideal plants	growing arabadopsis thaliana and analyzing the roots to see if they are thicker and more angled	Rajurkar, Ashish
9	County of San Diego, Department of Public Works	Intersection of Civil Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure	I mainly work in traffic engineering, but a large portion of my job involves collaborating with other teams such as Watershed Management and Environmental Services. My dream job is to go into Environmental Planning, and right now my internship is providing me with an opportunity to get my foot in the door. I will discuss how County road development contributes to sustainable infrastructure and environmental regulation.	Benjamin Baker	Moses, Kelema
10	Plastic Beach (https://www.plastic-beach.com/)	Plastic Beach Organization Outreach and Expansion	I will be interning at Plastic Beach, a non-profit organization that facilitates soft plastic recycling in San Diego, and my goal will be to expand the organization’s reach so that more plastic waste gets collected and recycled. My activities will mainly be focused on outreach. A big dimension of that will be getting the UCSD campus involved by reaching out to the school, student organizations, different departments, and other campus spaces. I aim to set up tabling events at UCSD to get more people aware of the existence and activities of Plastic Beach, to work with on-campus entities to set up a Plastic Beach plastic drop-off center at UCSD, and to get different departments to become direct clients to reduce plastic waste at UCSD. Other tasks related to outreach may involve researching, finding, and contacting other organizations or companies to get them involved as clients, as well as outreach via social media. Another task that I may get involved with during the internship is grant writing, and there may be other tasks that come up as I get more involved with the organization that I am yet not aware of.	Camins, Lyndsay	Hetherington, Elizabeth
11	City of San Diego - City Planning Department	Child-Friendly Public Spaces Design Manual	I will be helping research and develop the structure of San Diego's Child-Friendly Public Spaces Design Manual. This manual will utilize field observations, data from various communities around the city, and possibly community surveys. The goal of the manual is to assist other cities in making sure their infrastructure is safe, equitable, and environmentally friendly for youth.	Carrillo, Christopher	Lerner, Amy
12	Cleland Lab	Native Shrub recovery post 2021 Palomar college fire	Tagging and monitoring dominant native shrubs species in succession post wildfire, field work on native plants under different fire, drought, and competition experiments.	Smith, Karagan	Cleland, Elsa
13	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Arroyo Toad mapping and parcel prioritization to inform conservation efforts in the San Luis Rey	For this internship, I am working on identifying parcels of private property within and alongside the San Luis Rey in northeastern San Diego county utilizing GIS analysis to create a database of said parcels. These parcels will then be analyzed based on identified data categories and subsequently prioritized. As I have already started this internship, I will also be working with Pacific Pocket Mouse to establish a restoration area in Orange County. Additionally, I engage in occasional fieldwork and surveying.	Pappas, Dimitri	Kurle, Carolyn
14	Nieh lab at UCSD	Undergraduate Research Assistant in Nieh Lab at UCSD	Working with Ashley Kim, a PHD student, on her chapter involving the honeybee shaking signal and juvenile hormone levels.	Kim, Ashley	Nieh, James
15	UCSD EH&S	Storm Water Internship Preogram	In my internship, myself along with other interns will learn the ins and outs of the Phase II Small MS4 General Permit and the many implementations demanded of both UCSD and off-campus facilities. These implementations strive for environmental compliance by managing the beneficial resource of stormwater through discharge, drainage, and storage.	Loeper, Amanda	Jenkins, William
16	San Diego Habitat Conservancy	Still figuring it out with my site supervisor	My internship will be mainly biological monitoring, data collection, database maintenance, and administrative work. My goals are to become more familiar with fieldwork and work with data, and of course	Rivas, Vince	Kurle, Carolyn
17	CALPIRG	N/A	Activism work, public outreach, gathering petitions	Ngo, Toby	Hetherington Elizabeth
18	California Sea Grant	Investigating the state of the San Diego Seafood System - Community Needs and Consumer Demands	The San Diego commercial fishing community and associated seafood businesses have a diverse set of informational needs relevant to their businesses, from the health and sustainability concerns of consumers to market demographics. My project will be to define those needs and gather data via social science methods, for the ultimate intention of adding to existing understanding of the state of San Diego's local wild-capture sector of the seafood system.	Miller, Emily	Talley Theresa
19	Salk Institute: Harnessing Plants Initiative	Salk Institute: Harnessing Plants Intitative	I will be growing plants in controlled systems in order to scan and examine their root systems in regards to root architecture and potential carbon sequestration ability.	Michel Ruiz Rosquete	Ronald Burton
20	UCSD Environmental Health and Services	Storm Water Management	Will complete weekly maintenance checks on storm drainage activity across UCSD campus, receive training to do so, learn about storm drain management and permits upheld at UCSD, and meet and see the work of various environmental consultants. The primary goal is to become better versed in UCSD EH&S stormwater management practices in reviewing plan writing, executing maintenance check practices, and working alongside supervisors in given projects.	Loeper, Amanda	Hinds, Juli Beth** mentor for EH&S stormwater students only
21	CalPIRG	CalPIRG Intern	Helping CalPIRG in their campaigns and applying to run my own campaign to make UCSD a bee-friendly campus	Ayala, Marea	Kurle, Carolyn
22	UCSD EH&S	Stormwater Management	Inspection of stormwater management sites and drains on UCSD campus, SIO, and scripps beach.	Loeper, Amanda	Hinds, Juli Beth** mentor for EH&S stormwater students only
23	The Nature Conservancy	Corporate Engagement Intern	I will be working on engaging new sectors and conducting research in hopes of partnering with companies to implement new policies	South, Jim	Battula, Suma Bhanu
24	Climate Epidemiology Lab at SIO	Research on Air Quality alerts	I'll be working on a project focused on air quality analysis, when and where we see unhealthy range of alerts, within those regions-what is the composition of these alerts, this would give an idea of vulnerable populations. The air quality analysis would be focused on wildfire smoke.	Caitlin Jones-Ngo	Tarik Benmarhnia
25	UCSD Natural Reserve System	Herbarium Digitization or Influence of Trespassing/Event Traffic on the Reserves	-Outreach at the reserves 1-3 Saturdays a month. -Updating the website, social media, designs, and more for better public outreach. -Collecting samples and data on the fauna and flora in the reserves. -Maintaining the Reserves through weeding, Recovery of animals(i.e. rails), etc... -The goal of the NRS is to make knowledge of the natural environment of California easily accessible and to protect the four reserves for their history, future research, the culture of the native Kumyaay, and outreach.	Uyeda, Kellie	Uyeda, Kellie
26	The Smith Lab at SIO	Weaving Together the Past & Present using Seaweed Samples and Local Collections in the Context of Climate Change	I will be assisting with two different projects. One will go through the process of collecting, sequencing, identifying, then reporting different seaweeds. The other follows the sequence of identifying, digitizing/scanning, filing/organizing, and then cataloging both native and non-native species. I will be creating reports looking at native seaweeds for their culinary potential and analyzing the trends over time of both native and non-native seaweeds. Some of the goals include standardizing the cataloging process and creating a more accessible and localized database of seaweeds.	Khen, Adi and Ortiz, Kalani	Smith, Jennifer
27	UCSD, Rohner Lab	Inter and Intra-specific Competition of introduced Dung Beetle, Onthophagus Taurus, in Western the United States	I will be sampling O. Taurus from wild populations across California, estimating both inter and intra-specific competition within each cow pad. With this data, I can see if population densities match or differ from other populations of O. Taurus around the world. Some of the goals include learning field and lab data collection, data analysis with R, presentation of experimental design, and presentation of results. Additionally, to contribute data to the widening knowledge of dung beetle ecology and evolution. The overall goal is to conduct an independent piece of research that is publication-worthy.	McConnell, Nathan	Rohner, Patrick
28	Barbeau Lab SIO	Role of Iron in Deep Ocean Plastic Degradation	-Developing an experiment observing the effects of iron on plastic degradation in deep ocean conditions, comparing siderophore production between wild and mutant strains of Alteromonas Macleodii. -Involves preparation of the colorimetric, siderophore-detecting, CAS plates and culturing micro-organisms on plastic environments. -Goals: Develop research skills, microbiological lab techniques, independent work, and hopefully contribute to resolving the concern of plastics in the ocean.	Barbeau, Katherine	Barbeau, Katherine
29	UC Davis Karen C, Drayer Wildlife Health Center	"Eyes on the Wild: Monitoring Mountain Lions and Their Prey"	Building data structure for recording data Go through camera data (mainly photos) looking for mountain lions (high interest in mothers with kittens) and potentially including major prey animals such as deer and coyotes. Recording numbers of kittens, ages, locations Mapping locations where cameras are picking up mountain lions, their offsprings, and major prey animals such as coyotes and deer. GIS mapping Collaborate with wildlife biologists to interpret data The goal of this project is to continue the ongoing monitoring of the eastern Peninsular (mostly San Diego County but also part of Riverside County) population that has been petitioned for listing as threatened or endangered under the CA Endangered Species Act.	Winston Vickers	Morris, Margaret
30	Kasai Consulting	EHS Sustainability	I am not sure what exactly I will be doing for my internship project quite yet, but I know that it will most likely be focused on the sustainability practices of the clients of our company	Burcin, David	Kurle, Carolyn
31	Zovargo	Teaching experience for conservation from Zovargo	My internship is Zovargo and it’s about teaching people conservation skills and acknowledgement of endangered species. I plan on learning presentational skills as well as learning more of the internship as well. I want to get into animal rescue and animal handling and that’s exactly what they will be teaching and I’m excited to gain more knowledge on that because it will help me a lot when it comes to my career goals.	Plante, Amanda	Kurle, Carolyn
32	Cleland Lab at UCSD	Cleland Lab Plant Trait Plasticity Research	I will be assisting a PhD student doing a field experiment on how resource gradients impact trait plasticity in native and invasive Southern Californian grassland plants. I will be doing field and lab work, and working on a part of the project myself, specifically studying drought effects on these plants and their traits.	Cleland, Elsa	Cleland, Elsa
33	ECCLPs Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects	ECCLPs Research Intern	Interns will be in charge of environmental education research for students prek-12 on ways to integrate climate education into academic curriculums at differing ages	Sofian, Jessica	Gormally, Brenna
34	Braga Fresh	Market Demand for Regenerative Agriculture	The goal of this internship is to create a research report that will offer a thorough understanding of regenerative agriculture, identifying key challenges, highlight opportunities and propose actionable recommendations for advancing in the field. The report will establish a greater understanding of the big picture of supply chain and what consumers are looking for in the field of sustainable agriculture. I will be performing surveys, interviews, sitting in on meetings, evaluating policies, and synthesizing peer reviewed articles to create this regenerative agriculture report.	Chiapuzio, Katie	Hinds, Julie Beth** mentor for EH&S stormwater students only
35	County of San Diego Department of Environmental Health and Quality	Tijuana River Valley Cross-Border Sewage Pollution	As a student working with DEHQ I will be keeping records on what our department is doing to help the situation in the Tijuana River Valley. This means watching board meeting, watching press conferences, reading official statements, attending meetings, and compiling information on actions taken by not only our department but other government and nongovernment entities. The county is working towards making the areas affected livable and safe for all county residents and my part in this larger project is helpful for making sure we continue moving forwards instead of backwards.	Khalili, Atieh	Hetherington, Elizabeth
36	Deep Ocean Observation Strategy	DOOS Benthic Habitat Mapping Internship	Using GIS and R softwares to work with previously modeled data to catalogue and map benthic habitats. My goals are to become proficient in GIS mapping and to produce a journal to share with other members of the DOOS Community	Lebrec, Marine	Hetherington, Elizabeth
37	UCSD EH&S office	Storm Water Program	This internship takes place at the UCSD EH&S office. We work to inspect UCSD’s storm water treatment system and make sure that it meets the national permits.	Amanda Loeper
38	San Diego Air Pollution Control District	Air Pollution	Creating educational material to educate public about air pollution/health effects, attending community meetings, organizing meeting dates and setting for meetings, attending outreach events	Perez, Lauren	Holway, David
39	Nine Tripods Construction	Energy Efficiency and Energy Management Intern	As an Energy Efficiency and Energy Management Intern, my responsibilities include evaluating the energy efficiency of newly constructed buildings by analyzing energy consumption patterns in building design and assessing the performance of HVAC systems and building envelopes (such as walls, roofs, and windows). I provide recommendations to optimize energy usage based on evaluation results, suggesting technical improvements and design modifications to reduce energy demand. Additionally, I research renewable energy integration, exploring ways to incorporate solar PV systems, wind energy, or geothermal systems into construction projects, and calculate the energy return on investment while assessing technical feasibility. I also support energy efficiency monitoring and management by assisting in the installation and tracking of energy-efficient devices, identifying potential opportunities for improvement. Furthermore, I participate in the design and implementation of building Energy Management Systems (EMS) to enable real-time energy monitoring and optimization.	Zhao, Yuzhe	Hetherington, Elizabeth
40	Scripps Institute of Oceanography	Mapping the gaps: Identifying disconnects between industry data and scientific needs for the deep seafloor.	The goal of this internship project will be to identify and map regions of the global deep ocean and seafloor where industrial exploration and observation has and is currently taking place, but where data has not been collected by or shared with the scientific community. The anticipated set of capstone deliverables will include: A policy-relevant synthesis of literature and information about the relationship between scientific and industry-specific deep-sea exploration; One or more geospatial data products detailing the locations of relevant industrial deep-sea exploration activities; A set of science and policy communication tools, taking the form of interactive web maps and long-form story map products.	Kristen Johannes	Kristen Johannes
41	San Diego Habitat Conservancy	Biological Monitoring, Habitat Management, and the Impact of Invasive Species	I will assess the health of local ecosystems by conducting weekly field visits to various preserves within San Diego County. My duties will include identifying and removing invasive species, maintaining identification logs and reports, setting up animal monitoring devices, and contributing to the development of management strategies to help preserve these areas.	Rivas, Vince	Hetherington, Elizabeth
42	San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy	Measuring watershed water quality and creating an educational piece about the watershed.	My internship is the San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy, a non-profit land conservancy that aims to protect the natural and cultural resources of the San Dieguito Watershed. My internship activities include attending outreach events, creating social media posts, helping with ecological restoration, and more.	Rivera, Joseph	Hetherington, Elizabeth
43	Semmens Lab/Azam Lab at SIO	Analyzing edna as a method for monitoring cetaceans along the southern california coastline	collecting, filtering, extracting, pcr-ing, and analyzing genetic data for cetaceans. lots of lab work. some occasional field work. my goal is to look through the calcofi summer cruise samples and analyze them by spring quarter	Dinasquet, Julie	Semmens, Brice
44	Operations Management and Capital Programs (OMCP)	Inventory/validate GIS	Light pole location utilizing GIS survey	Henderson, Diana
45	UCSD Environment, Health & Safety	UC San Diego Storm Water Program Internship with Environment, Health & Safety	This internship looks at how UCSD is enacting the Phase II permit. So far, we have done this primarily by studying the permit and performing inspections around UCSD, from main campus to La Jolla beach.	Loeper, Amanda	Jenkins, William
46	Wasterwater Treatment and Disposal Division within Public Utilites	Water reclamation	Assisting in asset management during major construction upgrade during Phase 1 of the City of San Diego's Pure Water Project.	Huerta, Jorge	Holway, David
47	Climate Change Epidemiology Lab	Climate Shocks and Children's Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa	I will be analyzing the Young Lives Dataset for the Ethiopian cohort. Through our analyzes we'll study how climate shocks, such as, droughts, floods, and heat waves impact children well-being.	Benmarhnia, Tarik & Dimitrova,Anna	Benmarhnia, Tarik
48	Salk Institute, Busch Lab	Harnessing Plant Initiative	Finding and characterizing genes and mechanisms controlling root depth in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana	Ruiz, Michel	Busch, Wolfgang
49	Groundwork San Diego Chollas, through UCSD CollegeCorps	Climate Education for Youth	My position title is "EarthLab Middle School Mentor & Teaching Fellow". Through this internship I will be working with kids (elementary-middle schoolers) and helping to teach them about environmental science through various activities in their outdoor classroom (the EarthLab). I will also be assisting with their monthly Community Science Family Program and helping with some restoration of the EarthLab.	McCarthy, Allie	Urias, Alexis
50	EH&S	Storm Water Program	EH&S is looking for student interns to help manage the Storm Water Program on campus by learning about the Phase II Small MS4 Permit, how to implement the permit, and then performing activities which fulfill permit requirements to help the University maintain environmental compliance with the State of California and the EPA. Interns will get practical, real-life experience in maintaining a storm water program and pollution prevention techniques.	Loeper, Amanda	Hetherington, Elizabeth
51	Cleland Lab	Phenotypic Plasticity in California Grassland Communities	Studying the role of phenotypic plasticity in native and invasive California grassland communities and how they use plasticity to respond to competition with other plants and resource availability. We will be manipulating light, water, and nitrogen to study the responses.	Julia Bebout	Elsa Cleland
52	Nurture Nature Center	Art as a Tool for Science Education in Middle School Aged Students	Interviewing teachers and researching the impacts of NNC programs on learning, writing educational scripts, integrating STEEL standards into program offerings, assisting making programs more accessible and creating art/science packages for Center visits. Goal is to show how NNC programs benefit students' learning though blending art and science.	Semmens, Kate	Kurle, Carolyn
53	Aburto Lab	MPAs and Economic Value	Attempting to find correlation between MPAs and prospering, tourist based businesses	Rivera, Alberto	still searching
54	Cleland Lab	Plasticity in Plant's Shade Avoidance Strategies along a Resource Gradient	Plant and grow 3 native plant species and 3 invasive plant species along a nitrogen, water, and light resource gradient. Get the field ready, plant the different species, monitor species, take measurements at field site, and analyze the implications of those measurements.	Cleland, Elsa	Cleland, Elsa
55	Evan's Lab (SIO)	Monitoring air quality in the inland empire in comparison to dense populations (ex. SD)	Running the TE 6070 VFC+, taking measurements of common ground, comparing and analyzing the data, determine any correlation between possible relationships with the environmental landscape.	Evan, Amato	Evan, Amato
56	Shurin Lab	Effects of Plastic on Chlorophyll Concentrations	Analyze chlorophyll data from an experiment that ran over the summer	Morton, Scott	Shurin, Jonathan
57	Laguna Ocean Foundation	Tidepools/Laguna Beach	One part of the position is spent as a Tidepool educator and the other is surveying people who come to visit Laguna Beach. The survey is to measure the community's priorities with regards to environmental protections.	Rice, Carissa	Cook, Geoffrey
58	Helix Water District	Helix Water District has put its Operations Center electric vehicle charging infrastructure project on the street for bidding (construction phase). This project will retrofit our existing operations yard with an integrated, state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging system that will accommodate and support the District’s transition to Zero Emission Vehicles ("ZEV") in the coming years.	Helping Helix Water District with its construction of the most advanced EV charging system on the west coast for medium and heavy duty fleets.	Garuba, Joe	Hetherington, Elizabeth
59	WSP USA	Either a fish toxicity test with water from Lake Elsinore or something similar in nature	I have been working for WSP USA Environmental Consulting Agency for the summer and am continuing with them for my senior internship. My title is Aquatic Science intern and I assist with various projects that they work on including lake and port water quality monitoring, sediment testing in their lab, and data entry for physical habitat reporting and water quality TMDL/ TNTP reporting. I will have the unique opportunity to do conduct my research project (TBD) in their toxicity lab.	Gobbi, Kimbrie	Granzow, Benjamin
60	Miller Group lab	Simulating the physical-ecological response of the California Current System to El Nino and La Nina	Study a physical-ecological model representing basic elements of ecological responses to changing physical processes in the Northeast pacific.The plan is to first learn to read in and interpret the variables that affect model outputs.Eventually leading to seeking correlations (or composites) between physical variables such as the El Nino or reduced upwelling, and ecological responses, such as reductions in primary production. Final step would be to compare model responses for the years modeled, with available observations in the corresponding locations.	Miller, Art	Miller, Art
61	Bartlett Lab, Scripps	Microbial Deep Sea Bioremediation	I will studying a piezophilic microbes ability to breakdown xenobiotic materials under high pressure conditions, to provide insight into deep sea bioremediation methods.	Desmarais, Miguel	Bartlett, Douglass
62	Wegley Kelly Lab	Understanding the impact of thermal events and local stressors on the benthic composition of the coral reef in Moorea, French Polynesia using Large Area Imaging	I will become acquainted with and utilize image modeling software (in collaboration with the Sandin Lab) to classify and track successional community progression after a coral mortality event. This project is based on time series imaging data collected from the forereef of Moorea over the past 10 years; over this period, the reef has faced various stressors including bleaching events and crown of thorns starfish outbreaks. This analysis will allow me to compare the differential impact of these stressor events on the community structure of the reef across different geographic regions on the island. I will do this by identifying changes in proportions of live coral cover, recent mortality events, early successional communities of turf algae, and late-stage successional communities. In a previous study, these stages have been sampled and DNA sequenced to characterize the complex assemblage of organisms that comprise them, and the organic matter release profiles have been identified using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Thus, the imaging and tracking of these stages will help provide in-situ insight into how changes in benthic composition influence chemical dynamics in the water column. I will also learn wet lab techniques related to extracting DNA and prepping metabolomic samples for analysis.	Catherine Mullenmeister	Linda Wegley Kelly
63	San Diego River Park Foundation	The title of my internship is a hybrid Riparian Data Mapping and Clean Water Program Intern. My internship project will focus on a more specific topic in one of the two programs. I will begin brainstorming ideas for my ESYS project after a couple weeks of interning (becoming more familiar with the organization and attending a couple field days). The organization has a list of projects they would like interns to complete, but I could also come up with my own project idea as well.	Riparian Data Mapping Intern Position Description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UtNGgPaJ1hd8yIY93X9laxPZzg3UlIeiaBvisqswpn0/edit?tab=t.0 Clean Water Program Intern Position Description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eLqu6Ov6OZP4KnTZ4i9PpINHCvt7QQ3XZfWitB2KsRM/edit?tab=t.0	Downing, Rachel	Uyeda, Kellie
64	Andersson Lab ("SCOOBY") @ SIO	Seaweed and Coral Farm Project	The Andersson Lab has an ongoing project involving a seaweed and coral farm in Okinawa, Japan. Biogeochemical and hydrophysical data was collected using floating probes. It is my job to analyze the paths of the probes, and to calculate coral metabolism values using the collected data. As the project progresses, I will analyze the coral metabolism as a function of time and season, and compare probe movement to current measurements. The goal is to get a picture of coral health in this particular area, and determine the impacts of proximity to seaweed on coral health.	Andersson, Andreas	Andersson, Andreas
65	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Photosynthetic capability variance among species of seagrass.	Growing two species of seagrasses and their hybrid in a tank and preforming experiments on each of these groups. A goal is to learn how these species differ in reaction to how they are manipulated.	Moore, Malia	James Leichter
66	Lukowski Lab	Investigating Natural Products for Biosynthetic Potential of Lichen Bacteria	I will be conducting experiments to extract the natural products being produced by bacteria living inside lichen. A variety of experiments will be done such as genetic analysis and chemical analysis. The overall goal is to see if these bacteria have special interactions with one another which can produce useful antibiotics.	Benisch, Robert	Lukowski, April
67	UCSD Environmental Health & Safety	UCSD Area Natural Gas & Electricity Consumption Trends in 2024	Compiling natural gas and electricity usage data for the UCSD Environmental Health & Safety department	Petersen, Samuel	Slade, Johnathan
68	Shurin Lab	Microplastic Effects on Daphnia	To study and observe how different concentrations of microplastics under varying environmental conditions affect water daphnia populations.	Morton, Scott	Shurin, Jonathan
69	San Diego Habitat Conservancy	Undecided	I will be exposed to a variety of land management duties and activities in both the field and office. I will gain a general understanding of habitat management techniques and skills that are used in order to preserve and improve environmental conditions on various unique habitat preserves. The objectives of this internship are to provide insight on how a habitat conservancy operates and to become familiarized with San Diego’s local ecosystems.	Rivas, Vince	Hetherington, Elizabeth
70	EH&S	Stormwater Resource Management	Carry out tasks detailed in the currently issued permit, inspecting stormwater infrastructure, identifying unaccounted discharges, ensuring compliance with permit, participating in community education and outreach.	Loeper, Amanda	Hinds, Juli Beth ** mentor for EH&S stormwater students only
71	Smith Lab	Asparagopsis Taxiforms	Volunteer in the Smith lab from Scrip and learn about the red algae, and also learning about general lab skills such as seed bank, mother culture maintenance.	Or Ben-Zvi	TBA
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