Capstone Project Archives
Autumn 2023
| Students | Pathways | Project Titles | |
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| Meghan Wood, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy Systems | Market Entry Considerations for Plug-in Solar in the US | |
| Bryce Wilberding, Joint MS-MBA | Food and Water Systems | Modeling Walleye Production and Profitability: A Case Study for the US Aquaculture Industry | |
Cristobal Maturana, Joint MS-MBA Daniel Sandoval, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Energy Systems | Demand Response in Chile | |
| Julia Marisa Sekula, Joint MS-MBA | Custom Pathway | Carbon Accounting and Markets: Going Back to Basic Principles | |
| Katherine Playfair, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy Systems | The Role of Bioplastics in the Future of Food Waste | |
| Cory Waltrip, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Built Environment | International Growth for Low Carbon Cement Technology: Comparing the E.U. and Brazil | |
| Isabelle Kerr, Joint MS-MBA | Food and Water Systems | New Sustainability Construction Material (LignoBlock) Application and Techno-economic Analysis | |
| Claire Yun, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy Systems | Industrial Heat: An Investment Thesis for Decarbonation | |
| Maria Victoria Verbaite, Joint MS-MBA | Climate Change | Leveraging Voluntary Carbon Markets to Invest in Nature | |
Patrick Dowling, Joint MS-MBA Oren Fliegelman, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Built Environment Climate Change | Electrifying America's Buildings through Small Business |
Winter 2023
| Students | Pathways | Project Titles | |
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| Josh Kirmsse, Joint MS-JD | Sustainable Built Environment | Accidental Climate Policy: The Builder's Remedy in Santa Monica | |
| Emily Rogers, Joint MS-MBA | Environmental Systems & Decision-Making (Custom Pathway) | A Case Study on Practicing Respectful Research | |
| Royce Gene, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy and Built Environment (Blended Pathway) | The Political Landscape of Scaling Carbon Dioxide Removal in the United States | |
| Thilo Braun, Joint MS-MBA | Energy (Pre-2021 Curriculum) | Stuck in the Dark Ages: Business Models to Bring the Battery Industry to the 21st Century | |
| Will Butcher, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy Systems | Permanence Risk Insurance for Nature-Based Solutions in the Voluntary Carbon Market | |
| Alana Reynolds, Joint MS-JD | Sustainable Built Environment | Resolving Competing Interpretations on the Clean Air Act and Its Impact on Aviation-Based Greenhouse Gas Emissions | |
| Devon Wilson, Joint MS-JD | Sustainable Energy Systems | Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosure Regimes: A Comparative Analysis | |
| Claire Yerman, Joint MS-JD | Sustainable Energy Systems | Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on Tribal-Ownership of Solar Photovoltaics in Indian Country | |
| Ben Maines, Joint MS-MD | Human & Planetary Health | The Body Ecologic: Planetary Health Communication Through Art | |
| Daniel Gajardo, Joint MS-MIP | Food and Water Systems | Political Climate in Chile: An Approach to Increase the Environmental Ambition of Chilean Candidates | |
Kyle Wolstencroft, Joint MS-MBA Hannes Harnack, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy Systems Energy (Pre-2021 Curriculum) | Car Repair & Maintenance: Evaluating Business Ideas that Support the Shift to Electric Vehicles | |
| Konadu Amoakuh, Joint MS-JD | Sustainable Energy Systems | Assessing Federal Policies Around Equity in the Domestic Lithium Supply Chain | |
| Christina Baladis, Joint MS-MBA | Human & Planetary Health | Finding Pathways for the Private Sector to Invest in Nature | |
| Amanda So, Joint MS-MBA | Energy (Pre-2021 Curriculum) | Beyond Charging Stations: Necessary Elements for a Complete Transition to EVs in the US | |
| Sabrina Devereaux, Joint MS-JD | Oceans (Pre-2021 Curriculum) | Assessing the Governance Frameworks for Conserving Highly Migratory Marine Species in the North Pacific | |
| Gus Marquez, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Energy Systems | Assessing the Feasibility of an Industrial-scale Accelerated Rock Weathering Process for Carbon Sequestration |
Autumn 2022
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John Foye, Joint MS-MBA |
Land Use and Agriculture (Pre-2021 Curriculum) |
Low-Cost, Nitrogen Fertilizers for Smallholders |
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Abigail Mathieson, Joint MS-MBA Eric Nevalsky, Joint MS-MBA |
Sustainable Supply Chain Systems (Blended) Sustainable Energy Systems |
Every Emission Counts: Filling the Gaps in our Carbon Accounting Systems |
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Stephanie Grayson, Joint MS-MBA |
Sustainable Built Environment |
Assessing the Feasibility and Commercialization Potential of Decarbonizing Commercial Real Estate through ML-Empowered Retrofit Recommendations |
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Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky, Joint MS-MIP |
Sustainable Design |
Algorithmic Food Justice: Frameworks and Opportunities |
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Katelyn McEvoy, Joint MS-JD |
Food and Water Systems |
Self-Sustaining School Feeding Programmes in Kenya: Feasibility, Design, and Scale |
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Alwin Hui, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy (Pre-2021 Curriculum) |
How are Different Industries Assessing and Preparing for their Future Climate Risks and Responses? |
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Greg Zegas, Joint MS-MBA |
Sustainable Energy Systems |
The Geography of Carbon Data Value Chain: South Korea |
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Julia Park, Joint MS-MBA Ben White, Joint MS-MBA |
Sustainable Energy Systems Sustainable Built Environment |
Pump it up: Accelerating Heat Pump Adoption for Single Family Residences in California |
Winter 2022
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLES | Linked In |
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Jordan Conger, Joint MS-MBA Hannah Sieber, Joint MS-MBA |
Sustainable Energy Systems Energy |
Quantifying the Economic and Equity Impacts of California's Planned Safety Power Shutoffs | |
| Kevin Dousa, Joint MS-JD | Energy | Mapping Municipal Policies for Natural Gas Abolition and Decarbonization | |
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Ada Statler, Joint MS-JD |
Custom Track: Energy and Adaptation |
Shining the Light on Blackouts: Equity Implications of Climate-Driven Power Outages | |
| Karim Ibrik, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Reimagining Bioenergy: The Case for Hydrogen-from-Waste as a High-Impact Climate Solution | |
| Beverley See, Joint MS-MBA | Human and Planetary Health | Ecosystem Assessment for the Production & Adoption of Cell Cultured Seafood | |
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Georgi Koreli, Joint MS-MBA |
Land Use and Agriculture |
Assessing the Feasibility of Social Tokens to Incentivize Sustainable User Behavior |
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Henry Bradlow, Joint MS-MBA Chenyu Ren, Joint MS-MBA Peixi Yan, Joint MS-MBA |
Cleantech Custom Track: Sustainable Transportation Custom Track: Sustainable Home and Mobility |
Pandemic Effects and Environmental Impact on Austin Real Estate | |
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Lola Damski, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy | Climate Disasters: A Framework for Fair, Economical, and Preventative Household Relocation Schemes | |
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Mason Gunter, Joint MS-MBA |
Sustainable Built Environment |
Defining, Managing, and Measuring Climate Impact through Venture Capital | |
| Johanna Erikkson, Joint MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Financing Regenerative Agriculture: Modeling Risk for a Farm Lender |
Autumn 2021
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLES | Linked In |
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Ryan Bolles, Joint MS-MBA Barrie Grinberg, Joint MS-MBA Charles Stone, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy Sustainable Built Environment Cleantech |
Assessing the Commercialization Potential of the Stanford "Powernet" Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Solution, Across Target Farming and Rural Customer Segments | |
| Catherine Brown, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | The Demand Side of the Equation: Quantifying the Untapped Power of Efficiency | |
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Ashley Cho, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy |
The Effectiveness of Battery Management Systems and the Recent Market and Research Trends | |
| Carl Ziade, Joint MS-MBA | Cleantech | Peer to Peer Car Sharing for Close-Knit Communities as a Way to Reduce Car Ownership and Associated Environmental Impact | |
| Caroline Ling, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainable Design | How Can Devie Manufacturers Increase E-waste Collection from Consumers to Accelerate the Transition to a Circular Supply Chain? | |
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Joanna Klitzke, Joint MS-MBA |
Sustainable Design |
Private Sector Willingness to Pay in Hawai'i for Coral Reef Conservation Financing Via Insurance Innovation |
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Morrison Mast, Joint MS-MBA |
Land Use and Agriculture |
Scaling Environmental DNA Adoption Through Community Science to Unlock Novel Use-Cases | |
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Victoria Wills, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy | Could a Marketplace for Firm RECs Accelerate Geothermal Development? | |
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Kerry Omughelli, Joint MS-MBA Adiam Tesfalul, Joint MS-MBA |
Cleantech Sustainable Built Environment |
A Path Towards Sustainable Energy Transition in Nigeria | |
| Catherine Rocchi, Joint MS-JD | Energy | Improving California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory |
Winter 2021
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLES | Linked In |
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David Aitoro, Joint MS-MBA |
Cleantech |
Opportunities for Energy Efficiency Resources in North American Capacity Markets | |
| Paul-Miki Akpablie, Joint MS-MBA | Cleantech | Towards Affordable, Clean and Reliable Electricity in Africa: A Simple Optimization Model for an Energy "Router" | |
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Arnab Chatterjee, Joint MS-MBA Kyle Mills, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy Energy |
Lowering Perceived Barriers of Ethanol Production Utilizing Captured CO2 | |
| Nicholas Wallace, Joint MS-JD | Energy | Offshore Wind in the Great Lakes: Fostering Development Through State Policy | |
| Ian Field, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Sustainable Search Funds: Using Entrepreneurship through Acquisition to Drive Impact for our Planet | |
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Sawyer Clark, Joint MS-MBA |
Land Use and Agriculture |
The Economic Case for Low-Water Pistachios |
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Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Dual MS/PhD Genetics |
Custom: Human Health and the Environment |
Learning Air Pollution | |
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Will Ross, Joint MS-MBA |
Climate and Atmosphere | Being the Fire: An Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning Method to "Learn" How Fires Behave Beyond the Limits of Traditional Physical Models | |
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Amanda Zerbe, Joint MS-JD (In collaboration with Erica Bower, PhD) |
Climate and Atmosphere | Analyzing International Climate Change Claims in Vanuatu | |
| Cam Clevidence, Joint MS-JD | Freshwater | Left Outstanding: Reviving an Underutilized Clean Water Act Regulation | |
| Joseph Ingrao, Joint MS-JD | Land Use and Agriculture | Cultural Easements: Restoring Indigenous Sovereignty and Declining Ecosystems on Private Land |
Autumn 2020
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLES | Linked In |
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Eileen Waris, Joint MS-MBA Alvaro Stolowicz, Joint MS-MBA |
Land Use and Agriculture Sustainable Built Environment |
A Roadmap to Reducing Last Mile Delivery Related CO2 Emissions in San Francisco |
Waris: LinkedIn Stolowicz: LinkedIn |
| Eitan Rovero-Shein, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Location, Location, Location: Analyzing the Optimal Battery Storage Distribution for California | |
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Phillipp Krinner, Joint MS-MBA Julius Niehaus, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy Energy |
Heat Pumps: Unlimited Energy Right in Your Own Backyard |
Krinner: LinkedIn Niehaus: LinkedIn |
| Alex Li, Joint MS-MBA | Custom: Sustainable Transportation | Electric Robotaxis: Understanding the Impact of Electric, Shared and Autonomous Transportation | |
| John Hare-Grogg, Joint MS-JD | Sustainable Built Environment | Strategies for Climate-Sensitive Location of New Housing Development | |
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Maya Granit, Joint MS-MBA Meg Downey, Joint MS-MBA (In collaboration with Caroline Ferguson, PhD) |
Energy Sustainable Design |
Community-Based Sea Cucumber Aquaculture: Designing an Operating Model that Prioritizes Conservation & Financial Sustainability |
Granit: LinkedIn Downey: LinkedIn |
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Emily Gittins, Joint MS-MBA Carla Pacini, Joint MS-MBA |
Energy Sustainable Design |
Circular Fashion: Evaluating Economics, Consumer Behavior, and Environmental Impacts of Secondhand Models |
Gittins: LinkedIn Pacini: LinkedIn |
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Daniel Irvin, Joint MS-JD (In collaboration with Kiran Chawla, PhD) |
Energy | Distributional Issues Arising from Increasing Wildfire Risks in the Residential Insurance and Housing Markets | |
| Sami Tellatin, Joint MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Cracking the Farm Financial Barrier to Soil Health Practice Adoption: Capital Access and Profitability Insights | |
| Fabiola Quinzanos-Rodriguez, Joint MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | The Treasure Behind the Green Gold: Understanding the Opportunities in the Avocado Supply Chain | |
| Mondee Lu, Joint MS-JD | Land Use and Agriculture | Understanding Material Pathways for California's Woody Feedstock: 2020-2050 |
Winter 2020
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLES | Linked In |
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| Allan Van Vliet, MS-JD | Land Use and Agriculture | Can IP Law Improve Food Resilience? A Survey of Proposed Agriculture IP Reforms Through the Lens of Genetic Diversity | |
| Madhu Yalamarthi, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Investing in Sustainable Food Supply Chains | |
| Dan Freeman, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | What Does an Alt-Cow Eat, Anyway? Animal Product Alternatives and Legume Value Chains | |
| Michael M. Golz, MS-JD | Freshwater | Toward Resilient Municipal Water Supply: Evaluating Appetite for Water Recycling in Denver | |
| Thomas M. Miller, MS-JD | Land Use and Agriculture | Redrawing the Legal Landscape for Geologic Carbon Sequestration in California | |
| Julia Osterman, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture |
Unlocking Public Private Investment in Mangroves for Coastal Resilience and Carbon Sequestration |
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Alexandra Boboc, MS-MBA Eyal Donath Zafir, MS-MBA Max Sapozhnikov, MS-MBA |
Energy Sustainable Built Environment Cleantech |
A Path to 24/7 Clean Energy for Data Centers: Analyzing the Feasibility, Economics and Impact of Using Energy Storage |
Boboc: LinkedIn Sapozhnikov: LinkedIn Donath Zafir: LinkedIn |
| Graham Wookey, MS-MBA | Energy | Restoring South Africa's Mining Sector with Battery Storage | |
| Adrien Duroc-Danner, MS-JD | Energy | Sources and Uses: Trends in Clean Energy Finance in California and the Northeast | |
| Mike Caron, MS-MBA | Energy | Accelerating Transportation Electrification: Watt Can be Learned by Analyzing Existing Electric Vehicle Fleets? | |
| Jennifer Goldman, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | The Future of Transportation: Putting Cities in the Driver's Seat |
Autumn 2019
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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Caroline Jo, MS-JD (In partnership with Sudatta Ray, PhD student) |
Energy | The Shareability Potential of Energy Access Solutions in Urban Slums around Harare, Zimbabwe | |
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Annie Baldwin, MS-MBA (In partnership with Nathan Ratledge, PhD student) |
Energy | Batteries are the New Pancakes: A Comparative Analysis of Value Streams from Batteries in California, Kenya, and Uganda | |
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Cody Evans, MS-MBA (In partnership with KC McKanna, PhD student) |
Energy | A Green Opportunity: Encouraging New State and Local Policies to Encourage Clean Energy Investments in Opportunity Zones | |
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Ida Hempel, MS-MBA Nate Nunta, MS-MBA Valerie Shen, MS-MBA |
Energy Sustainable Design Energy |
Shades of Green: Assessing the Environmental Impacts of China's Belt and Road Initiative |
Hempel: LinkedIn Nunta: LinkedIn Shen: LinkedIn |
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Jayce Hafner, MS-MBA (In partnership with Nic Buckley-Biggs, PhD student) |
Land Use and Agriculture | The Grass is Greener: The Role of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Protecting California's Rangelands and Promoting Grassfed Beef | |
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Abhay Jain, MS-MBA Nico Guillen Barrail, MS-MBA |
Energy Land Use and Agriculture |
Low Hanging Fruit: VC Investable Trends in Food Waste |
Jain: LinkedIn Guillen Barrail: LinkedIn |
| Rachel Reed, Dual MS-PhD Mechanical Engineering | Sustainable Design | Designing a Forced Air Static Composting System for Small Scale Farms | |
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Luis Lascurain, MS-MBA Johannes Olejnik, MS-MBA |
Land Use and Agriculture Land Use and Agriculture |
Incentive Driven Sustainability in Large Scale US Farming |
Lascurain: LinkedIn Olejnik: LinkedIn |
| Ezgi Sonmez, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Comparative Study on Pistachio Markets in Turkey and California | |
| Adhokshaj Bellurkar, MS-MBA | Energy |
Evaluating the Cost-Performance Frontier in Methane Leak Detection |
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George Amirdzhanyan, MS-MBA Jim Yu, MS-MBA |
Cleantech Sustainable Built Environment |
SRIs as a Vehicle for Growth in Developing Economies |
Amirdzhanyan: LinkedIn Yu: LinkedIn |
Winter 2019
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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Artem Barsukov, MS-MBA Carlotta Mathieu, MS-MBA |
Custom: Sustainable Design of Urban Systems Sustainable Design |
Transitioning to a Circular Economy: Redesigning Kids Clothing for Rental |
Barsukov: LinkedIn Mathieu: LinkedIn |
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Natalie Bodington, MS-MBA Stella Chen, MS-MBA |
Cleantech Sustainable Built Environment |
Utility Digitization Challenges and Opportunities: Scaling Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems |
Bodington: LinkedIn Chen: LinkedIn |
| Autumn Bordner, MS-JD | Climate Adaptation Systems | Climate Migration & Self-Determination: Perspectives from the Marshall Islands | |
| Ryan Calvert, MS-MBA | Energy | Wetland Restoration: A New Approach to Urban Resilience | |
| Ben DeGolia, MS-JD | Climate and Atmosphere | Reforming Cost Allocation for Utility-Caused Wildfires in California | |
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Michael Levin, MS-JD Martin Rudigier, MS-MBA |
Energy Custom: Sustainable Transportation |
Accelerating the Adoption of Electric Vehicles by Providing an Electric Fleet-As-A-Service Model to Small and Mid-Sized Fleets in the U.S. |
Levin: LinkedIn Rudigier: LinkedIn |
| Carlos Marinetti, MS-MBA | Climate and Atmosphere | The Future is Electric: Using Energy Efficiency to Eliminate the Air Pollution of Cities in Southern Chile | |
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Monica Molina, MS-JD Will Foiles, MS-MBA |
Energy Energy |
Democratizing Electricity: Energy Cooperatives in Puerto Rico |
Molina: LinkedIn Foiles: LinkedIn |
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Donna Ni, MS-JD Sarah Rowan, MS-JD |
Land Use and Agriculture Climate and Atmosphere |
Enacting the Human Right to Water: Voices from the Central Valley |
Ni: LinkedIn Rowan: LinkedIn |
| Jenny Park, MS-MBA | Sustainable Design | Santa Lucia Preserve: Best Practices for Private Land Trusts in Western U.S. | |
| Nihal Shrinath, MS-JD | Energy | Funding Wildfire Preparedness in Under-resourced Rural California | |
| Srishti Sundram, MS-MBA | Energy | Innovative Applications of FullMoon Sensors |
Autumn 2018
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Rushil Prakash, MS-MBA | Energy | Farm-level and Processing Food Waste Reduction in India: An Idea for Red Chillies | |
| Ruth Adu-Daako, MS-MBA | Energy | Understanding the Economic Impacts of Artisanal Palm Oil Processing in Ghana | |
| Thomas Campbell, MS-MBA and Megan Welch, MS-MBA | Sustainability through Data: Digital Transformation in the Oil Patch |
Campbell: LinkedIn Welch: LinkedIn |
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| Dramane Meite, MS-MBA and Rafael Nataf, MS-MBA | Modular Africa |
Meite: LinkedIn |
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| Manuel Waenke, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Sound Agriculture - Incorporating Positive Environmental Effects into a Company's Commercialization Strategy |
Winter 2018
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Samanthe Belanger Tiver, MS-MBA (in partnership with Miyuki Hino, PhD student) | Measuring the Impact of Nuisance Flooding | ||
| Sudarshan Bhatija, MS-MBA | Energy | Evaluating the Suitability of US Coal Plants for Advanced Carbon Capture Technology | |
| Max Evans, MS-MBA and Himanshu Gupta, MS-MBA | Finance Application of Climate Indexes for Prediction of Environmental Assets |
Evans: LinkedIn Gupta: LinkedIn |
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| Savannah Fletcher, MS-JD (in partnership with Kristen Green, PhD student) | Land Use and Agriculture | Respect the Land: Communicating Indigenous Subsistence Approaches to Arctic Land Managers | |
| Naga Kataru, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Sustainability Issues in Medicinal Herbal Farming in the Context of Herbal Drinks Market | |
| Alejandra Maguina, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Bridging Sustainability: Better Food for a Better World | |
| Miles Muller, MS-JD | Energy | Expanding Low-income Access to Clean Transportation | |
| Rashmi Nalla, MS-MBA | Cleantech | Bridging the Financing Gap for Solar Projects in India | |
| Indira Phukan, MS/PhD Education | Custom: Social Equity and Environmental change | Environmental Justice in Higher Education: Expanding the Who and What |
Autumn 2017
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Diego Arguelles, MS-MBA | Sustainable Design | Eje: Using a Systems Thinking Approach to Understand Community Forestry in Mexico | |
| Aisha Bashir, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Creating a Market Mechanism for Improving the Livelihoods of Fulani Pastoralist Households in Nigeria | |
| Shruthi Baskaran, MS-MBA & Ryan Betka, MS-MBA | Rethinking Crop Insurance & Conservation in the U.S. Farm Bill: A Socio-Environmental Conception of “What Could Be” |
Baskaran: LinkedIn Betka: LinkedIn |
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| Apoorv Bhargava, MS-MBA | Cleantech | Emissions Impact of e-VTOL Fleets in the San Francisco Bay Area | |
| Pam Chirathivat MS-MBA & Timothy Latimer, MS-MBA (in partnership with Nathan Ratledge, PhD student) | Impacts of Geothermal Development in East Africa |
Chirathivat: LinkedIn Latimer: LinkedIn |
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| Wendy Hua, MS-MBA & Stephanie Young, MS-MBA | Data & Analytics Powering Smart Cities: Transitioning San Francisco Into a “Smart-City” |
Hua: LinkedIn Young: LinkedIn |
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| Cynthia McMurry, MS-MBA | Global Community and Environmental Health | Assessing Willingness to Pay for an Automated Chlorine Treatment Device in Kisumu County, Kenya | |
| Eric Olliff, MS-MBA & Lesley Thayer, MS-MBA | Greening the Cannabis Industry: A Business Case for Sustainable Cannabis |
Olliff: LinkedIn Thayer: LinkedIn |
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| Santiago Perez Teuffer Lopez, MS-MBA | Energy | North American Gas Industry Integration: Solving for Mexico’s 54% Increase in Gas Deficit |
Winter 2017
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Autumn 2016
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Winter 2016
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Marcos Ayestaran, Joint MS-MBA & Tomas Ocampo, Joint MS-MBA | Utility Scale Solar PV in Argentina |
Ayestaran: LinkedIn Ocampo: LinkedIn |
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| Jeff Barnes, Joint MS-MBA | Cleantech | Residential Hot Water Heaters as an Energy Storage Resource | |
| Nicholas Flanders, Joint MS-MBA & Neil Raina, Joint MS-JD | Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide: the Basis for the Energy Company of the Future |
Flanders: LinkedIn Raina: LinkedIn |
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| Elizabeth Jones, Joint MS-JD | Global Community Environmental and Health | Water Quality Monitoring in California Schools | |
| Rose Stanley, Joint MS-JD (in partnership with Anne Siders, PhD) | Oceans and Estuaries | Adaptive Governance in a Changing Arctic: Dynamic Ocean Management in the Bering Strait |
Autumn 2015
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Spring 2015
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Lisa Forssell, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Electric Vehicles from a Utility Perspective: A Case Study with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power | |
| Tim Singer, Dual MS-MD | Custom: Sustainable Systems Thinking | An Interdisciplinary Meta-Model of the Impact of Climate Change on Child Development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa | |
| Christine Su, MS-MBA | Land Use and Agriculture | Empowering Ranchers to Manage Grasslands with Mobile Data Analytics |
Autumn 2014
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Felipe Cosmelli, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Development of Distributed Solar in Chile | |
| Wakana Honda, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Apparel: Transitioning to a Sustainable Consumption Model | |
| Lauren Kolodny and Jake Saper, Joint MS-MBA | How to Spread the Heat Pump Gospel | ||
| Scott Littlefield, Elena Perez, and Kirsten Stasio, Joint MS-MBA | Sustainability and the GSB: Fostering Environmental Leadership at a World-Class Business School | ||
| Greer Mackebee, Joint MS-JD | Energy | A Tale of Two RFPs: What Palo Alto and Oklahoma Can Tell Us About Wind and Solar Developer Bidding Behavior in Competitive Auctions | |
| Matt Mo and Ingo Wiegand, Joint MS-MBA | Electric Vehicles at Stanford: Analysis of Commuter Behaviors and Opportunities for EV Programs | ||
| Yi Wang, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Distributed Generation Deployment for Commercial Applications in Tanzania |
Spring 2014
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Mina Alaghband, Joint MS-MBA | Self Design: Technology with focus on Urban/Real Estate Applications of Sustainable Technology | The Last Step: Does Going Platinum Make Economic Sense? | |
| Peter DeMarco, Joint MS-JD | Land Use and Agriculture | Assessing Dairies' Threat to the Drinking Water of Disadvantaged Communities in the San Joaquin Valley | |
| Hunter Ellis, Joint MS-JD | Energy | Anticipating "Gray Swans": Climate Risks and Reserve Valuations in the Petroleum Sector | |
| Julia Forgie, Joint MS-JD | Bend: Climate/Land Use and Agriculture | Protecting California's Rivers and Streams: An Assessment of Instream Flow Transactions | |
| Henry Lippincott, Joint MS-MBA | Energy | Air Quality Monitoring at Home and at Work: A Prototype and Business Case | |
| Joel Minor, Joint MS-JD | Climate and Atmosphere | Completing the Bridge to Nowhere: Prioritizing Oil and Gas Emissions Regulations in Western States |
Autumn 2013
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Nicole Schuetz, Joint MS-MBA | Advancing Efficiency and Renewable Power Through State Level Energy Policy: A Survey of What Works | ||
| Lauren Laustsen, Karl Skare, Sendil Palani, Joint MS-MBA | AgoraSol: Powering Brazil's Future Through Distributed Solar | ||
| Dele Adeyemo, Joint MS-MBA | Developing a Model for Better Targeting of Residential Solar PV Sites | ||
| Anna Kovaleva, Joint MS-MBA | Unlocking the Potential of Energy Efficiency in Russia | ||
| Phil Wieland, Joint MS-MBA | Energy Efficiency in the Hospitality Industry: Retrofitting a Bay Area Hotel | ||
| Zach Scheel, Joint MS-MBA | Measuring Sustainable Development in the Global Engineering, Procurement, & Construction (EPC) Industry | ||
| Ashwin Madgavkar, Joint MS-MBA | Ceres Imaging: Making Farming Data-Driven Visualizing Water Stress Through Multispectral Imaging | ||
| Marc Manara, Kerem Alper, Mark Wittman, Joint MS-MBA | Evaluating the Sustainability of Direct-delivery Food Service Relative to Traditional Brick & Mortar Restaurants | ||
| Doug Weiss, Emily Steinberg, Ruthie Schwab, Joint MS-MBA | Bringing Sustainable Produce Offerings to Walmart's Same-day Delivery Service |
Spring 2013
| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
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| Ivan La Frinere-Sandoval, Joint MS-MBA | Residential Grid Parity – Affordable Solar Electricity in Palo Alto, California, and Beyond | ||
| Adrian LeCesne, Joint MS-JD | Smart Meter Deployment in Missouri: Policy and Strategy | ||
| Stacy Kourlis, Joint MS-JD | A Framework for Assessing the Science and Policy of Citizen Protests to BLM Grazing Permits | ||
| Kelly Rosencrans, Joint MS-JD | Carbon Finance for Small-scale Renewables | ||
| Summer (Yulin) Tu, Joint MS-MBA | Big Data Analytics for Building Energy Efficiency, Statistical Anomaly Detection in Building Data |
Autumn 2012
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Hsiung and Christina Garay, Joint MS-MBA | Disrupting the Livestock Industry | ||
| Julian Jordan and Catherine Chang, Joint MS-MBA | Urban Design Innovation for Disaster | ||
| Jaehoo Lee, Joint MS-MBA | Electricity Import Roadmap from Far East Russia to Japan | ||
| Victor Viros and Francisco Torreabla, Joint MS-MBA | Triggering a Large Scale Energy Transformation in Chile Through Financial Feasibility of Pumped Storage Plants | ||
| Alex Pratt, Joint MS-MBA | Cost Effective Energy Efficiency in Department of Defense Data Centers | ||
| David Weiskopf, Joint MS-JD and Danny Cullenward, PhD-JD | Is Lifecycle Analysis Unconstitutional? A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Lawyering | ||
| Rebecca Levin and Katie Hill, Joint MS-MBA and Kelly Rosencrans, Joint MS-JD | Building the Global Sunshine Network: Identifying International Markets for Residential Rooftop Solar |
Spring 2012
| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Longenecker, Joint MS-MBA and Sarah Penn, Joint MS-MBA | PSL Energy: A Novel Investment Strategy to Expand Capital In Renewable Energy Generation | ||
| Khalial Withen, Joint MS-JD | How Should We Manage Methane Emissions from Shale Gas? | ||
| Elizabeth Goldsmith, Joint MS-MD | From Monitoring and Evaluation to Effectiveness Assessment: A Project Plan for Puente-Stanford Collaboration | ||
| Clinton Light, Joint MS-JD | Sustainably Powering Kenya Through the UN's Partnership for Market Readiness | ||
| Eiji Imai, Joint MS-MBA | Economic Analysis of Japan-South Korea Undersea HVDC Cable: A First Step toward the Asian Super Grid | ||
| Lily Fang, Joint MS-JD | State Policies for Multifamily Rental Housing Under the Weatherization Assistance Program |
Autumn 2011
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abhishek Gupta, Shane Lauf, Joint MS-MBA | Taking Ecological Services Information to the Mainstream: A Go to Market Strategy for InVEST | ||
| Yi Yin, Roberto Santana Joint MS-MBA | The Transformation of “China Clean Energy Inc.” | ||
| Nick Halla, Joint MS-MBA, Sam Ramirez Earth Systems/Mechanical Engineering MS | FreeCarma: Empowering Drivers Through Variable Cost Car Ownership | ||
| Ken Alston, Joint MS-MBA | Brazil’s Wind Potential: Opportunities for Wind Energy in a Predominately Hydroelectric Powered Grid | ||
| Ashish Nagar, Joint MS-MBA | Insuring Batteries in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles | ||
| Tom Elson, Claudine Frasch, Brendan Speechley, Joint MS-MBA | Climate Change and the Future of California Wine Grapes: A Napa Valley Case Study | ||
| Christoph Frehsee, Deirdre Norris, Joint MS-MBA | Disrupting the Unsustainable Fashion Accessories Market with Amour Vert | ||
| Noah Smith-Drelich, Joint MS-JD | Buying Health: The Impact of a Consumer Subsidy on Vegetable Purchasing, Consumption, and Waste | ||
| Lisa Newman-Wise, Joint MS-MBA | Evaluating Challenges and Opportunities: Youth Programs on Community Farms | ||
| Peter Richmond, Joint MS-JD | The Cautious Greenfinger: Evaluating the International Law Implications of Cloud Brightening and Stratospheric Hazing | ||
| Kevin Hettrich, Joint MS-MBA | The Inaugural Issue of the Stanford Energy Journal: The Future of Nuclear Energy |
Spring 2011
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Castaño | Scaling Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofits | ||
| Sarah Greer | State Mandated Energy Efficiency Measures: A Comprehensive Survey | ||
| Felice Gunawan | Water Re-use at a Sweater Manufacturing Company in Indonesia | ||
| Megan Herzog | The Practical Utility of Rights to Water: Lessons from the Water Controversy in Phiri, South Africa | ||
| Sam Hodges and John Krzywicki | Assessing the viability of integrated wind power generation and transmission systems | ||
| Yohei Iwasaki | Plan for Commercializing a Novel Hydrogel Technology | ||
| Ashish Jhina, Dan Tuttle, and Florian Weidinger | Creating Ecosystem Innovation in Water and Sanitation Infrastructure | ||
| Kimiko Narita | Looking Forward: Creating a Framework for Federal Marine Spatial Planning in the Gulf of Mexico in Light of the BP Oil Spill | ||
| Jay Ryu | A Thermolytic Approach to Diesel Pollution Abatement | ||
| Anna Veit | Impact Analysis and Business Plan for the Non Profit Arm of Carbon Lighthouse |
Autumn 2010
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eli Gregory | Congestion and Greenhouse Gases: The potential of congestion mitigation strategies to reduce CO2 emissions | ||
| Megan Guy | Paper or Practical? Evaluating the Prospects for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in the U.S. | ||
| Graeme Waitzkin | Local Personal Mobility: The Role of the Low Range Electric Vehicle |
Spring 2010
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| STUDENTS | Track | PROJECT TITLE | Linked In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Dawson | Understanding Utility Requirements for Grid-Scale Batteries | ||
| Sandrine Dury | An Investigation of High Altitude Wind Power Generation for Joby Energy | ||
| Sumi Kim | Opportunities in Energy Efficiency | ||
| Brenden Millstein and Michael Dorsey | Carbon Lighthouse, Leading the Way to a Carbon-Free Future |