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Master of Advanced Studies

Marine Biodiversity and Conservation

Capstone Project Master List

Photo: scripps.ucsd.edu

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Table of Contents

Acronyms and Key …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….… 3

Class of 2005 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 4

Class of 2006 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 5

Class of 2007 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6

Class of 2008 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 7

Class of 2009 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 8

Class of 2010 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 10

Class of 2011 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 12

Class of 2012 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 14

Class of 2013 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 16

Class of 2014 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 18

Class of 2015 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 20

Class of 2016 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 22

Class of 2017 ……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………………… 24

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Acronyms:

BRCC: Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias (research branch of SDNHM)

CDBW: California Department of Boating and Waterways

CI: Conservation International

CNMI: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

CSRC: California Spatial Reference Center

DLNR: Department of Land and Natural Resources

ELI: Environmental Law Institute

GPS: School of Global Policy and Strategy (division of UCSD)

IRPS: International Relations and Pacific Studies (division of UCSD)

IWC: International Whaling Commission

NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

ODI: Ocean Discovery Institute

SDNHM: San Diego Natural History Museum

SDSU: San Diego State University

SIO: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

SOPAC: Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center

SWFSC: Southwest Fisheries Science Center (division of NOAA)

UCLA: University of California Los Angeles

UC MEXUS: The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States

UCR: University of California Riverside

UCSD: University of California San Diego

UNAB: Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga

WWF: World Wildlife Fund

Key: E = Project under embargo (request copy from admin)

X = Project unavailable

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2005

Lorraine Anglin: Preparing for a Deep Blue Revolution: The Development of Aquaculture in the US

Exclusive Economic Zone

Advisors: Dr. Enric Sala, SIO; Dr. William Fox, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD IRPS

Andy Balendy: Citizen Science Portal Project (CSPP): Development plan to create a user-friendly resource

for marine related citizen science projects in southern California

Advisors: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO; Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko, UCSD

Communications

Amy Broulik: Recreational Water Quality Monitoring: A Proposal for a New, Rapid Microbiological

Method

Advisors: Dr James Hogan, Gen-Probe, Inc.; Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr Lisa Shaffer, SIO, UCSD IRPS

Fernanda Mazzillo: A Framework for Designing a Network of Marine Protected Areas in the Abrolhos

Bank, Brazil

Advisors: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Enric Sala, SIO; Dr. Jeffrey Vincent, UCSD IRPS

Morgan Richie: Preliminary Report to the World Wildlife Fund on the Historical Ecology of the Sulu and

Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion

Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO; Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Lisa Shaffer, SIO, UCSD IRPS

Greg Wells: Recommendations for Monitoring Marine Protected Area Effectiveness at Verde Island,

Philippines

Advisors: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Heidi Gjertsen, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO

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2006

Steve Chapple: Blues for a Dying Ocean, or Hope for an Evolutionary Integration?

Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO; Dr. Enric Sala, SIO; Dr. George Sugihara, SIO; Dr. David Younkman,

UCSD IPRS; Dr. Rob Wilder, UCSD

Catalina Lopez: Alternative Assessment of Impacts to the Marine Environment in the Region of Loreto,

Baja California Sur, Mexico

Advisors: Dr. Enric Sala, SIO; Dr. Jeffrey Vincent, UCSD IRPS; Dr. Exequiel Excurra, BRCC SDNHM; Dr. Heidi

Gjertsen, NOAA SWFSC

X Barbara Nightingale: Analysis of the Ecological Conditions and Protection and Restoration

Opportunities in Port Ludlow Bay

Advisors: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO; Dr. Steven Erie, UCSD Urban Studies

Mark Tetrick: Food and Fuel Polyculture: A Sustainable Option for Developing World Communities

Advisors: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. B. Greg Mitchell, SIO; Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD

Economics; Dr. Clark Gibson, UCSD Political Science

Ryan Wulff: Communicating Science through Visual Media and How to Get People to Watch

Advisors: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO; Dr. Zeinabue Davis, UCSD Communications;

Dr. Cheryl Peach, Birch Aquarium

Hiro Yokoyama: Utilization of Remote Sensing Network Systems for Advanced Ecology and Marine

Conservation Biology

Advisors: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Karen Stocks, UCSD Super Computer Center; Dr. Tony Fountain;

UCSD Super Computer Center

Brian Zgliczynski: Uncovering the Marine Biodiversity of Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Advisors: Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO; Dr. Nancy Knowlton, SIO; Dr. Karen Stocks, UCSD Super Computer Center

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2007

Shannon Bryant: Sea Level Rise: Implications for Management and Restoration of Coastal Wetlands in

Southern California

Advisor: Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO

Benjamin Chen: The Scripps Coastal Reserve Interpretive Sign Project Proposal: Birch Aquarium’s Beach

Classroom at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)

Advisor: Dr. Cheryl Peach, Birch Aquarium

Cina Loarie: Evaluation of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Fishing Effort on Kelp Beds in La Jolla

and Point Loma: Implications for Siting No-Take Marine Reserves under the 1999 Marine Life Protection

Act

Advisors: Dr. Paul Dayton, SIO (Chair); Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO

Leanne Duffy Matthaei: Sexual Development of Common Dolphinfish, Coryphaena hippurus, and

Fisheries Management Implications

Advisors: Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO (Chair); Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC

X Kimberly McIntrye: Shifting Baselines and the Law: The Use of Historical Scientific Data in Listing

Marine Species under the Endangered Species Act

Advisor: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO

Amy Mecklenborg: Organic Contaminants in San Diego Bay: Assessment of Storm Water

Advisor: Dr. Dmitri Deheyn, SIO

Megan Peterson: A Review of Northern Pacific Sperm Whale (Physter macrocephalus) Abundance and

Stock Structure

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Barbara Taylor, NOAA SWFSC

Kelly Sayce: Development of an Edutainment Product to Promote Free-Choice Ocean Sciences Learning –

TimeWhys Pilot

Advisor: Dr. Sharon Franks, SIO

Hugo Selbie: The Creation of ‘Sharkbite.com’ an Education and Outreach Website to Support a Newly

Formed Research Consortium Regarding Elasmobranchs in the Southern California Bight

Advisors: Dr. Jeffrey Graham, SIO (Chair); Dan Cartamil, SIO

Rachael VanderWalde: Can People and Pinnipeds Share the Same Space? An exploration into the role of

signage at pinniped viewing sites and a proposal for the future of the harbor seals at Children's Pool

Beach, La Jolla, CA

Advisor: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC

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2008

Adam Baske: Can Recreational Diver Surveys Lead to Conservation Action? A Case Study of the

Revillagigedo Archipelago

Advisors: Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. John Evans, UCSD Sociology; Dr.

Stuart Sandin, SIO

X James D. Broecsh: The Artisanal Fisher, A Short Documentary Film

Advisors: Dr. Cheryl Peach, Birch Aquarium (Chair); Dr. Zeinibu Davis, UCSD Communications; Dr. Dale

Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics

Martha Davis: Do Boaters Overfish and Under Spend? A Case Study in the Exumas, Bahamas

Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO (Chair); Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD Economics; Dr. Richard Carson,

UCSD Economics

Laura Escobosa: Local Participation Towards Marine Conservation in Loreto Bay National Park, Baja

California Sur, Mexico

Advisors: Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD

Economics; Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO

Rachelle Fisher: Spatial Patterns of Fishing Effort and Recreational Fishing Practices off San Diego, CA

Advisors: Dr. Paul Dayton, SIO (Chair); Dr. James Moore, UCSD Anthropology; Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO

Anne Grant: An Analysis of the Market for Certified Sustainable Sea Urchin in San Diego

Advisors: Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD Economics (Chair); Ben Gilbert, UCSD Economics; Dr. Ed Parnel, SIO

Cody Hooven: Spatial Analysis of Marine Turtle Stranding Data in the Hawaiian Islands for the Period

2002-2007: Is Turtle Health an Indicator of Environmental Quality?

Advisors: Dr. Yehuda Bock, SOPAC, CSRC, SIO (Chair); George Balazs, NOAA PIFSC Marine Turtle

Research Program Leader; Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD Economics

Elizabeth Keenan: Beauty and the Beasts: Beaches, Litter, Debris and People, Beach Valuation and

Public Perceptions of Marine Debris

Advisors: Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. James Leichter, SIO; Eben Schwartz,

Outreach Manager, CA Coastal Commission

Jacqueline Newman: Crunch Time in the La Jolla Tide Pools: Photo-documenting the Biodiversity at

Bird Rock and Promoting Awareness of Human Impact in the Intertidal Zone

Advisors: Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO (Chair), Dr. Harim Cha, SIO; Dr. Kaustuv Roy, UCSD Biological Sciences

Joy Leilei Shih: The Moorea Green Pearl Golf Course: An Assessment of the Changes and Impacts on the

Coral Reef Environment from Recent Development and Land Use

Advisors: Dr. James Leichter, SIO (Chair); Dr. Mathew D. McCubbins, UCSD Political Science; Dr. Dmitiri

Deheyn, SIO

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2009

Erendira Aceves: Analysis of sport and recreational fishing activities in the Los Cabos Region, Baja

California Sur, México

Advisors: Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO (Chair); Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra, UC MEXUS, UCR, SIO; Dr. Junjie Zhang, UCSD

IRPS

Chuck Briscoe: Ocean Desalination in Southern California: An Evaluation of Environmental, Economic and

Energy Impacts of the Carlsbad Desalination Plant

Advisors: Dr. David Checkley, Jr., SIO (Chair); Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics; Dr. Michael Dettinger,

SIO; Kristin Evans, Birch Aquarium

X Amanda Cummins: The Seasonal and Diel Occurrence of Cetaceans and Anthropogenic Noise in the

Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Hawai’i

Advisors: Dr. John Hildebrand, SIO (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI; Dr. Jay Barlow, NOAA SWFSC,

SIO; Dr. David Woodruff, UCSD Biological Sciences

Maria de Oca: Reef Sharks: A Historical Ecology and Media Project

Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO (Chair); Dr. Zeinabu Davis, UCSD Communications; Dr. Julia Baum, SIO

Dani DiIullo: Invertebrate Investigators: Curriculum Development for Ocean Discovery Institute’s SEA

Series

Advisors: Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO (Chair); Dr. John Czworkowski, UCSD Chemistry; Eric Simms, Birch Aquarium

Mario Gabiati: A Business Plan for the Profitable Implementation of Radio Frequency Identification

Systems for Farm Raised Fish

Advisors: Dr. Ted Groves, UCSD Economics (Chair); Clark Jordan, UCSD Rady School of Management;

Stephen Bennett, SIO

Lisa Gilfillan: Talking Trash: Occurrence of plastic micro-debris in the California Current System

Advisors: Dr. Mark Ohman, SIO (Chair); Dr. William Watson, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Cheryl Peach, Birch

Aquarium

Christopher Knight: California Marine Life Protection Act- What’s Really Happening?

Advisors: Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD

Economics; Dr. James Hi lger, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Richard Norris, SIO

Michelle Lande: Acoustic Interactions with the Endangered Vaquita

Advisors: Dr. Ted Cranford, SDSU (Chair); Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics; Dr. Barbara

Taylor, NOAA SWFSC

Elyse Levy: Sea Turtle Squeeze: A Spatial Assessment of Hawksbill Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat and Future

Sea Level Rise in the Caribbean

Advisors: Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO (Chair); Al Lombana, WWF; Dr. Walter Jetz, UCSD Biology

Rebecca Morales: Little Fishes: Film on Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Overfishing in

Jamaica

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Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO (Chair); Dr. James Leichter, SIO; Megan O'Connor, UCSD Media

Communications

Catherine Preston: InFishWeTrust.com: Localizing Sustainability

Advisors: Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI;

Dr. Brian Goldfarb, UCSD Communications

Kim Roeland: Dry Season Urban Runoff in the Chollas Creek Watershed and San Diego Bay

Adviosrs: Dr. Keith Pezzoli, USCD Urban Studies & Planning (Chair); Dr. Hiram Sarabia-Ramirez, UCSD

Urban Studies & Planning; Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI

Cali Turner Tomaszewicz: Impacts and Implications of Power Plant Thermal Effluent Changes on Green

Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in San Diego Bay, California

Advisors: Dr. Theodore Groves, USCD Economics (Chair); Dr. Jeffrey Seminoff, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Gerald

Kooyman, SIO

Becky Twohey: Marine Protected Area Evaluation

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Dr. Helen Fox, WWF; Dr. Heidi Gjersten NOAA, CI; Dr. Theodore

Groves, UCSD Economics

Eric Wilkins: San Elijo Lagoon and Sea Level Rise

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Dr. Reinhard Flick, CDBW; Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO; Dr. Junjie Zhang,

UCSD IRPS

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2010

Joel Barkan: A Plan to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch in Small-scale Gillnet Fisheries Using Illuminated Nets

Advisors: Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO (Chair); Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics; Shara Fisler,

ODI

Heather Belichesky: Utilization of Front-End Evaluations for Exhibit Creation: SEAPLEX Cruise and Marine

Debris at Birch Aquarium at Scripps

Advisors: Kristin Evans, Birch Aquarium (Chair); Dr. James Leichter, SIO; Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady

School of Management

Megan Bettilyon: Green Energy: Global Policy and Issues Affecting the Development of Algal

Aquaculture for Biofuel

Advisors: Dr. Greg Mitchell, SIO (Chair); Dr. Steve A. Kay, UCSD Biology; Ben Gilbert, UCSD Economics

Dominique Camacho: Influence of ocean fronts on cetacean habitat selection and diversity within the

CalCOFI study area

Advisors: Dr. John Hildebrand, SIO (Chair); Dr. Karen Stocks, UCSD Super Computer Center; Dr. Jay Barlow

NOAA SWFSC

Alvaro Casanova: Aguas Malas: Border Politics and the International Wastewater Facility

Advisors: Dr. Kirstie A. Dorr, UCSD Ethnic Studies (Chair); Bruce Reznik, San Diego Coast Keeper; K. Wayne

Yang, UCSD Ethnic Studies; Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO

X Javier Cuetos-Bueno: Fisheries and their effects on coral reef communities across the Mariana

archipelago (CNMI and Guam)

Advisors: Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Peter Vroom, NOAA Fisheries Pacific

Island Fisheries Science Center; Houk, Pacific Marine Resources Institute, CNMI

Du Nui: Technical and Economic Model of Marine Micro-algal Bioenergy Production

Advisors: Dr. Greg Mitchell, SIO (Chair); Dr. Junjie Zhang, UCSD IRPS; Laura Carney, SIO

Matthew Huelsenbeck: The Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide Concentrations on the Larval Behavior of

White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis

Advisors: Dr. Dave Checkley Jr., SIO, (Chair); Dr. Andrew Dickson, SIO; James Broesch, SIO; Dr. Phaedra

Doukakis, NOAA SWFSC

Amanda Keledjian: The Impacts of El Niño Conditions on California Sea Lion Health and Fishery

Interactions: Management Challenges and Policy Implications

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI; Dr. David Checkley,

SIO

Julianna Mullen: Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Shark Conservation in the Republic of Palau, with

Applications and Education Materials for Continued Protection of Sharks

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. James Hilger, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. James Moore, UCSD

Anthropology

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Stephanie Nehasil: The Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Pinniped Haul-out Sites along the California Coast

Advisors: Dr. Lisa Ballance, SIO, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Lesley McAllister, UCSD IRPS; Dr. Lara Hansen,

EcoAdapt

Amanda Netburn: Fisheries Management in California: Two Case Assessments

Advisors: Dr. Tony Koslow, SIO (Chair); Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics; Dr. Phaedra

Doukakis, NOAA SWFSC

Ryan Rezek: Investigation of the Invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida: Dispersal Mechanisms and Methods

for Controlling Zoospores

Advisors: Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO (Chair); Dr. Steve Lonhart, NOAA; Eric Simms, SIO; Dr. Richard Norris, SIO

Megan Roberson: The Effects of Pesticides on the Bioluminescent Brittle Star Amphipholis squamata:

Implications for Future Regulation

Advisors: Dr. Dimitri Deheyn, SIO (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO; Dr. Hiram Sarabia-Ramirez, UCSD

Urban Studies & Planning

Abbie Sloan: From Planning to Action: Advancing Climate Change Action Plan for Florida’s Coral Reefs

Advisors: Alex Score, EcoAdapt (Chair); Dr. Richard Norris, SIO; Eric Simms, SIO; Dr. Junjie Zhang, UCSD

IRPS

Elizabeth Terk: SCUBA Diver User Fees as Sustainable Funding of Coral Reef Based Marine Protected

Areas

Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Jackson, SIO (Chair); Dr. Nancy Knowlton, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Dale Squires,

NOAA SWFCS, UCSD Economics

Lauren Washington: Effects of the 2003 Cedar and 2007 Witch Creek Wildfires on metal loads in

sediment and water from the burned watersheds

Advisors: Dr. Dimitri Deheyn, SIO (Chair); Dr. Steve Erie, UCSD Urban Studies & Planning; Dr. Eric Stein,

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

Jessica Wiseman: Conservation and Human Impact Awareness Through Historical Pictures

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Judith Coats, Birch Aquarium; Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady

School of Management

Shannon Yee: REDD and BLUE Carbon: Carbon Payments for Mangrove Conservation

Advisors: Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. James Leichter, SIO; Dr. Junjie Zhang, UCSD

IRPS

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2011

Carolina Behe: Subsistence Fishing in the Yukon River Delta: A Cast Study of Alakanuk Subsistence

Fishery and the Use of Local/Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Advisors: Dr. Tony Koslow, SIO (Chair); Catherine Moncreiff, Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association;

Dr. Paul Dayton, SIO; Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management

Zach Caldwell: Reef Fish Monitoring Techniques: Assessing the Possibility of Producing Comparable Data

through a Standardized Method

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Mangement; Dr.

Jonathan Shurin, UCSD Biology

Dominique Cano-Stocco: Shark Fin Genetic Analysis - Identification of Species in California Markets

Advisors: Dr. Ron Burton, SIO (Chair); Dr. Thad Kousser, UCSD, Political Science; Dr. Phaedra Doukakis,

SIO, NOAA SWFSC

Susana Cusatti: Projected Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Digir Island, Kuna Yala Comarca, Panama

Advisors: Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD, Economics (Chair); Dr. Reinhard Flick, SIO; Phaedra Doukakis, SIO,

NOAA SWFSC

Jade Delevaux: Socioeconomic factors influencing the effectiveness of co-management

Advisors: Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA (Chair); Josh Cinner, James Cook University; Jeff Graham, SIO; Matthew

Lauer, SDSU

E Jaclyn Fowler: Squid Ink: Written Accounts Inspired by my Involvements in the Marine Conservation

Field

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Steve Bennett, SIO; Dave Gibbons, UCSD, Physical Sciences

Licensing

Karen J. Geisler: Beneath the Surface: Making the Scripps Marine Protected Area Visible

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO; Dr Phil Bourne, UCSD Skaggs School of

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Phil Zerofski, SIO

Daniel Gonzalez-Paredes: Sea Turtle Conservation in Drake Bay, Costa Rica

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD Economics; Dr. Tomoharu Eguchi,

NOAA SWFSC; David Melero-Duro, Corcovado Foundation NGO

Kristian Gustavson: Exploration and Assessment of the Bohemia Spillway's Ability to Resist Land Loss as

Precedent for Using the Mississippi River to Restore Coastal Louisiana

Advisor: Dr. James Leichter, SIO (Chair); Dr. Daniel Tartakovsky, UCSD Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering;

Dr. John Lopez, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

Sara McPherson: Lost in Translation: Using the Green Seas/Blue Seas Initiative to bridge the

communication gap between science and art

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Darrin McGraw, UCSD Humanities; Kristin Evans,

Birch Aquarium; Dr. Paul Dayton, SIO

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Ariana Merlino: Artists Meet the Scientists: The Tijuana Estuary and Beyond

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Kristin Evans, Birch Aquarium; Dr. Oscar Romo, UCSD Urban

Studies & Planning, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve

Ali Redman: De-glooming Doom: Fun Ways to Teach about Human Impacts In the Marine Environment

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Rachel Millstone, UCSD Education, Amy Bergen, SEACAMP

Alexis Rife: When Good Intentions Aren't Enough… Multi-Use Marine Protected Areas as a Fishery

Management Tool: The Loreto Bay National Park Case Study

Advisor: Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO (Chair); Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO; Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra, UC-MEXUS, UCR; Dr.

Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics

Katy Seto: Sierra Leone's Seas: A project to assess the current status & potential role of marine resources

in the development and peace building of Sierra Leone

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Joshua Graff-Zivin, UCSD IRPS, UCSD Economics; Dr. Richard

Matthew, International Institute for Sustainable Development & UCI International and Environmental

Politics; Oli Brown, UN Environment Programme-Sierra Leone

Robin Yeager: Riding the Green Tech Wave: Lessons from Participants in the Reedsport Wave Energy

Project’s Settlement Process

Advisors: Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI (Chair); Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics; Irene Stillings,

California Center for Sustainable Energy

Melissa Yuen: Shark Fin Culture in the United States: Understanding Consumer Behaviors and Attitudes

Under Proposed Legislative Actions

Advisors: Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management (Chair); Dr. Junjie Zhang, UCSD, IRPS; Dr.

Richard Norris, SIO

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2012

Kristin Anderson: Barca a Bocca: The Future of San Diego Seafood

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Peter Halmay, San Diego Fishermen's Working Group; Dr. Mark

Jacobsen, UCSD Economics

Kristina Barber (with Holly Rindge): Messaging Strategies to Engage the South Coast Recreational

Fishing Community in Ongoing Marine Protected Area Management

Advisors: Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO (Chair); Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management (Chair); Kelly

Sayce, Strategic Earth

Rory Driskell: Coastal Protections: Rocky Intertidal Enforcement

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI; Dr. Richard Norris, SIO

Priscila Estrada: The Gulf of California Sardine Complex: Challenges to Sustainability

Advisors: Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra, UC-MEXUS (Chair); Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO; Dr. Paul Dayton, SIO; Dr. Dale

Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics; Dr. Samuel F. Herrick, NOAA SWFSC

Justin Garver: Modernizing Environmental Analysis: Mapping the Next Step for NEPA

Advisors: Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI (Chair); Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics; Heidi Batchelor,

SIO Marine Physical Lab

Luciano Hiriart-Bertrand: Considerations for Creating a Marine Protected Area for Spheniscus Penguins

in Southern Chile

Advisors: Dr. Lisa Ballance, SIO (Chair); Isabelle Kay, UCSD; Alejandro Simeone, UNAB-Chile

Kelly Keen: Localization and propagation of seismic shots in the deep-water Beaufort Sea

Advisors: Dr. John Hildebrand, SIO (Chair); Dr. Bruce Thayre, SIO; Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI; Dr. Jay

Barlow NOAA SWFSC, SIO

Nicole Lee: Phylogenetic and Phylogeographic Analysis of Beaked Whales in the Bahamas: Implications

for Conservation

Advisors: Dr. Philip Morin, NOAA SWFSC, SIO (Chair); Dr. Phaedra Doukakis-Leslie, SIO, NOAA SWFSC; Dr.

Greg Rouse, SIO; Dr. David Woodruff, UCSD Biology

Kristina Malizia: "It's Not Easy Being Green": An Exploration of the Environmental Attitude-Behavior Gap

Advisors: Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management (Chair); Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO; Kristin Evans,

Birch Aquarium

Tamara Mayer: Aloha ‘Āina: Bringing together innovative ideas and relevant literature to develop a

collective approach for sustainably managing natural resources in Hawai‘i

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Dr. Jericho Berg, UCSD

Communications

Alejandra Meza Monge: Testing sustainability in Triggerfish and Leopard grouper fisheries in the

Northern Gulf of California

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Advisors: Dr. Philip Hastings, SIO (Chair); Dr. Brad Erisman, SIO; Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD

Economics

Javier Naretto: Mollusks from Southern South America, the Scotia Arc and Antarctic Peninsula; assessing

connectivity among these regions

Advisors: Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO; Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO; Dr. Kaustuv Roy, UCSD Biology; Heidi Batchelor, SIO

Caitlin Scully: Hidden in the Hoodoos: Interpreting the Chronology and Past Environments of Cedar

Breaks National Monument and Bryce Canyon National Park

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Judith Coats, Birch Aquarium; Dr. Jericho Burg, UCSD

Communications

Holly Rindge (with Kristina Barber): Messaging Strategies to Engage the South Coast Recreational

Fishing Community in Ongoing Marine Protected Area Management

Advisors: Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management (Chair); Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO; Kelly Sayce,

Strategic Earth

Alyssa Swall: Abundance, Distribution, and Type of Marine Debris in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean

Advisors: Dr. Lisa T. Ballance, SIO (Chair); Miriam Goldstein, SIO; Dr. Gordon McCord, UCSD IRPS

Jessica Umansky Greenstein: IATTC and ICCAT: Understanding Drivers of Change for Bycatch Mitigation

in Two RFMO’s

Advisors: Dr. Jeffrey Moore, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Dr. Phaedra Doukakis, NOAA

SWFSC, SIO; Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics

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2013

Bowen Cao: Business Plan: China Coral Conservation Center

Advisors: Stephen Bennett, Earthrisk Technologies (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Dr. Junjie Zhang, UCSD

IRPS

Daniel Conley: Relationships between the Japanese Style MPA System and Coral Cover in Ishigaki Japan

Advisors: Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO (Chair); Dr. George Sugihara, SIO; Dr. Craig Callander, UCSD Ethics

Emily Gottlieb: The Changing Climate of Science Education: Bringing Ocean Acidification to Middle

School Teachers

Advisors: Dr. Andreas Andersson, SIO (Chair); Kristin Evans, Birch Aquarium; Dr. David Kline, SIO

Farnaz Farhang: The bioaccumulation of heavy metals in trematode Euhaplorchis californiensis: use of

parasites in environmental monitoring and impact assessments

Advisors: Dr. Dimitri Deheyn, SIO (Chair); Dr. Kevin Lafferty, UCSB; Dr. Rebecca Lewison, SDSU

Tara Jain: Corals in Hot Water: Bringing Together Science and Management in the Andaman Islands for

effective conservation

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Heidi Batchelor, SIO; Manish Chandi, Nature Conservation

Foundation, India

Frances Kinney: Ocean Connectors: Connecting Youth for Conservation

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Kristin Evans, Birch Aquarium at Scripps; Stephen Bennett,

EarthRisk Technologies

Monika Krach: EEZ Seeps: Exploration, Exploitation, and Conservation

Advisors: Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerick, SIO, ELI; Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO

Heather Krish: Strongylocentrotus franciscanus: Cryptic OpportUNIties

Advisors: Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO (Chair), Dr.Theodore Groves, UCSD Economics

Kathleen A. Mullen-Ley: The Future of Seafood Labeling Under the World Trade Organization: Lessons

from the Dolphin-Safe Tuna Dispute

Advisors: Dr. Jeremy Rusin, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI; Dr. Theodore Groves,

UCSD Economics

Ashley Nee: Vaquita Safe Shrimp: New Gear and Market Incentives for Conservation

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA (Chair); Dr. Richard Norris, SIO; Catalina Lopez, UC MEXUS, UCR

Ralph Pace: Punta Colorada: the Value of a Wave

Advisors: Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO (Chair); Dr. Richard Norris, SIO; Dr. Richard Carson, UCSD Economics

Yat-Long Poon: Remixing Science Education: Learning Through Video Production and Reinterpretation

Advisors: Dr. Brian Goldfarb, UCSD Communications (Chair); Ivan Rosero, UCSD Communications; Brad

Werner, SIO

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Genevieve Rich: Locally Landed San Diego: Understanding San Diego's Commercial Fishery and the

Possibility of Creating a Community Supported Fishery

Advisors: Dr. Phaedra Doukakis, NOAA SWFSC, SIO (Chair); Dr. David Checkley, SIO; Dave Rudy, Catalina

Offshore Products

Justine Schmidt: The Blue Bahr Film Festival: Raising Ocean Awareness Through Film

Advisors: Dr. Amro Hamdoun, SIO (Chair), Najib El Haddad, American University of Technology in

Lebanon; Daniella Russo, Plastic Pollution Coalition; Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, USCD Economics

Anthony Shiao: Dynamic MPA ver.0.0: Adapting Southern California against Potential Climate-Forced

Hypoxia

Advisors: Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Dr. Arthur Miller, SIO

Alayna Siddall: Marine Protected Areas and Recreational Fishing for Kelp Bass (Paralabrax clathratus) in

Southern California: An Economic Perspective.

Advisors: Dr. Theodore Groves, UCSD, Economics (Chair); Dr. Stephen Stohs, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Brice

Semmens, SIO

Mark Smith: Aquaculture in America: Economic Factors Driving Change

Advisers: Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics (Chair); Federico Rotman, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research

Institute

Vanessa Van Zerr: The effects of Inter-annual Climate Variability on the Departures of Leatherback

Marine Turtles from the California Current Ecosystem

Advisors: Dr. Jeffrey Seminoff, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Dr. Art Miller, SIO; James

Sheppard, San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research

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2014

Hafizh Adyas: Tracing the Hunter: Estimating the Abundance of Vulnerable Shark Species in Wakatobi,

Indonesia.

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Phaedra Doukakis-Leslie, NOAA SWFSC, SIO; Imam Musthofa

Zainudin, WWF Indonesia, Brian Zgliczynski, SIO

Lalitha Asirvadam: The Mangroves of Curaçao: An Ecosystem Worth Protecting

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO; Kristin Evans, Birch Aquarium; Dr. David

Kline, SIO; Yassir Eddebbar, SIO

Dominique Barnes: Connecting the Olympia oyster with the San Diego Seafood Market

Advisors: Dr. Theresa Sinicrope-Talley, SIO (Chair); Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics

Amy Bowman: Losing Base: Education and Changing Ocean Chemistry

Advisors: Dr. Andreas Andersson (chair) SIO; Kristin Evans, Birch Aquarium; Lauren Linsmayer, SIO; Emily

Gottleib, SIO

Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson: Rigs to Reefs: Exploring the Future of California's Offshore Oil and

Gas Platforms

Advisors: Dr. Brice Semmens, SIO (Chair); Dr. Jules Jaffe, SIO (Chair); Milton Love, UCSB; Paul Krause,

Environmental Resource Management; Charlotte Vick, Mission Blue

Meredith Epp: If You Can't See it, Does it Still Exist? Mapping and Tracking Debris in the Deep Sea

Advisors: Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI (Chair); Dr. Lisa Levin (SIO); Nicholas Mallos, Ocean

Conservancy

Brett Garner and Chris Neighbors: Kia Over There

Advisors: Dr. Brice Semmens, SIO (Chair, SIO); Dr. Brad Erisman, SIO (Chair); Scott Williams, Filmmaker

Amber Jackson and Emily Callahan: Rigs to Reefs: Exploring the Future of California's Offshore Oil and

Gas Platforms

Advisors: Dr. Brice Semmens, SIO (Chair); Dr. Jules Jaffe, SIO (Chair); Milton Love, UCSB; Paul Krause,

Environmental Resource Management; Charlotte Vick, Mission Blue

Dana Kochnower: The Behavioral Science of Natural Infrastructure Investments

Advisors: Sheila Reddy, The Nature Conservancy (Chair); Reinhard Flick, SIO, Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD

Rady School of Management

Cynthia Matzke: Connectivity: A 4K Documentary Exploring Intertwined Ecosystems Throughout the

Pacific

Advisors: Susan Kucera, Cinepartners (Chair); Greg Rouse, SIO, Aaron Thode, SIO; Stuart Sandin, SIO;

Michael Buckingham, SIO

Jennifer McWhorter: Creation of a particulate organic matter (POM) stable carbon and nitrogen isotope

map, or 'isoscape', of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California

Advisors: Carolyn M Kurle, UCSD, Division of Biological Studies (Chair); Dr. Brice Semmens, SIO; Ralf

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Goericke, SIO; Heidi Batchelor, SIO

Chris Neighbors and Brett Garner, Kia Over There

Advisors: Dr. Brice Semmens, SIO (Chair); Dr. Brad Erisman, SIO (Chair); Scott Williams, Filmmaker

Chelsey Nieman: Investigating the long-term effects of climate on Norwegian Spring-Spawn Herring

(Clupea harengus)

Advisors: Dr. Art Miller, SIO (Chair); Dr. David Checkley, SIO; Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD

Economics

Ashleigh Palinkas: Beneath the Surface of San Diego: Perspectives & Innovations at Depth – A History of

San Diego Sport Diving

Advisors: Dr. Paul Dayton, SIO (Chair); Dr. Ed Parnell, SIO; Dr. Theresa Sincrope-Talley, CA Sea Grant,

UCSD; Phil Zerofski, SIO

Elena Perez: Socioeconomic and Ecological Analysis of Artisanal Fishery in Yanuca, Fiji

Advisors: Dr. David Kline, SIO (Chair); Dr. Greg Mitchell, SIO; Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics

E Allison Prange: Contaminant levels in two common sea urchins with ecological and aquaculture

interests: A field study focusing on metals

Advisors: Dr. Dimitri Deheyn, SIO (Chair); Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO; Dave Rudie, Catalina Offshore Products

Stephanie Roach: Developing and Implementing the Barbuda Blue Halo Initiative: A Plan for Sustainable

Ocean Management

Advisors: Dr. Ayana Johnson, Waitt Institute (Chair); Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO, ELI; Dr. Stuart Sandin,

SIO; Stephen Bennett, Verisk Climate

Laurence Romeo: Tracing Anthropogenic Nutrient Inputs Using δ15

N values in Algae Tissue, Koh Tao,

Thailand

Advisors: Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO (Chair); Heidi Bachelor, SIO

E Alexander Thornton: Pelagic sex: using sperm competition theory to infer mating systems in a suite of

eastern tropical Pacific dolphins

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Richard Norris, SIO; Dr. Philip Hastings, SIO

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2015

Paloma Aguirre: Biofilters in San Diego County: Implications for Stormwater Management, the Water

Regime’s Role, and the Way Forward

Advisors: Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Keith Pezzoli, UCSD Urban Studies & Planning; Dr. Serge Dedina,

WILDCOAST/COSTASALVAJE

E Ana Luisa Ahern: Molecular Identification of Fish Eggs from Cabo Pulmo National Park

Advisors: Dr. Ron Burton, SIO (Chair); Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO

Adnan Hassan Alalawi: The Possibility of Using Hydrophones to Detect Trawling Activity of Boats with

Outboard Motors

Advisors: Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Brice Semmens, SIO

E Alicia Amerson: Through Their Eyes - a whale watching study to determine best practices for

sustainable and responsible whale watching along the Pacific coast

Advisors: Dr. John Hildebrand, SIO (Chair); Dr. Jay Barlow, NOAA; Ryan Wulff, NOAA; Jeff Pantukhoff, The

Whaleman Foundation

Natalie Blea: An Assessment of Toxic Effects of PBDEs

Advisors: Dr. Dimitri Deheyn, SIO (Chair); Dr. Amro Hamdoun, SIO; Chris Stransky, Amec Foster Wheeler

Nathalie Delherbe Martínez: Hemolymph Bacterial Community of Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) in

Response to Long-term hypercapnia

Advisors: Dr. Eric E. Allen, SIO (Chair); Dr. Martin Tresguerres, SIO

Chad Hamilton-Koll: It’s Not About the Classroom: Teaching applied scientific concepts using

experiential learning

Advisors: Phil Zerofski, SIO (Chair); Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO; Dr. Ayana Johnson, Waitt Institute

Nathaniel Hanna Holloway: Two-Dimensional, Near-Shore, Large-Scale Marine Benthic Imagery:

Creating a Valuable Tool for Coral Reef Conservationists and Managers

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Waitt Institute

Michele Heller: An Exploration of Effective Messaging for Shark Conservation

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Sue Chen, NOVA Medical Products

Tom Holm: Treasures of the Island of the Blue Dolphins: Educational Tools and Outreach Techniques to

Inspire the Next Generation of Marine Scientists

Advisors: Dr. Richard Norris, SIO (Chair); Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO; Gary DuBois, J.D., Director of Cultural

Resources, Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indian Tribes

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Taylor Maddalene: Building Partnerships for Science Communication and Application in the Line Islands

of Kiribati

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO; Dr. Randi Rotjan, New England Aquarium

Johanna Marsters: Sailing to Save the Seas: Marine Science Education On-board a Working Tall Ship

Advisors: Susan Johnson, South Bayfront Sailing Association (Chair); Dr. Cheryl Peach, Birch Aquarium; Dr.

Richard Norris, SIO

Chase Martin: Genetic Identification of Octopus Species in Southern California Seafood Markets

Advisors: Dr. Ron Burton, SIO (Chair); Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO; Dr. Dick Norris, SIO

X Caroline McCandless: Women’s Wetsuits: the right fit

Advisors: Kim McCoy, NATO, Ocean Sensors, Inc. (Chair); Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of

Management

Mallory Morgan: The Climate Around Climate Change on Florida’s Reefs: In Action or Inaction? A

Qualitative Evaluation of the Climate Change Action Plan for the Florida Reef System 2010-2015

Advisors: Alex Score, EcoAdapt (Chair); Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management; Dr.

Jennifer Smith, SIO

Elizabeth Huntley Penniman: A Look at the Marine Ornamental Fish Market for Captive-Bred Species

Advisors: Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management (Chair); Dr. Judy St. Leger, SeaWorld

Parks and Entertainment

Oriana Poindexter: The Fish Market Chronicles: A Pan-Pacific Survey

Advisors: Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO; Dr. Octavio

Aburto, SIO

Canon Purdy: Barking News Story: Media Perceptions of the California Sea Lion

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Zachary Schakner, UCLA

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Marina Som: Developing a Draft Management Plan for the Dike Rock Intertidal Area, Scripps Coastal

Reserve, La Jolla, California

Advisors: Isabelle Kay, UCSD Natural Reserve System (Chair); Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO

Lauren Ward: Climate Change, Community Resilience, and Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico

Advisors: Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO (Chair); Dr. Andrew Shepard, Gulf of Mexico University Research

Collaborative; Dr. Richard Somerville, SIO; Scott Ressler, National Geographic

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2016

Bridget Altman: Fun with Fishes: Making fish diversity more accessible to the public using the SIO Marine

Vertebrate Collection

Advisors: Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO (Chair); Rochelle Mothokakobo, Ocean Discovery Institute; H.J. Walker,

SIO; Ben Frable, SIO

David Anderson: Integrated Aquaculture of Shrimp and Clams: A study of economic feasibility and

environmental effect

Advisors: Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO

Breck B. Archer: In-Foam-Us: Combatting Climate Change Through Development of Signature Products

Using Algal Biotechnology

Advisors: Dr. Stephen Mayfield, UCSD Biology (Chair); Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics

Ashly Carabetta: Increasing Ocean Stewardship and Awareness through the use of Large-Scale

Photomosaics

Advisors: Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Mark Vermeij, CARMABI Research Station

Catherine Courtier: Comparing Apples to Oranges, and Turning Them Into Fish; A Framework for Valuing

Marine Species Used by Competing Resource Users

Advisors: Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO; Alfredo Girón-Nava, SIO

Jodie Darquea: Recognition of mangrove ecosystem services by the community and policy makers in the

Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador

Advisors: Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO (Chair); Dr. Tara Whitty, SIO; Dr. Arielle Levine, SDSU Geology; Raul Carvajal,

CI Ecuador

Mikki Dochez: Can the Collection and Research of Marine Natural Products for Biomedical Uses

Contribute to Conservation in Curacao?

Advisors: Tamara Mayer, Sirenas (Chair); Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO; Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO

Flora Drury: Seafood Direct Marketing from Fisherman to Consumer at Southern California Farmers’ and

Fishermen’s Markets

Advisors: Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, SIO (Chair); Dr. Stephen Stohs, NOAA SWFSC; Sarah Shoffler, NOAA

SWFSC

Astrid Hsu: Librarium: The Role of Books in Aquariums

Advisors: Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO (Chair); Dr. Rachel Millstone, UCSD Education

Aaron Keohane: A Look into the Carrageenan Industry: How Tourism, Markets and Demand Affect the

Seaweed Farmers of Bali, Indonesia

Advisors: Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO (Chair); Dr. Tara Sayuri Whitty, SIO

Gwendal Le Fol: An Analysis of Fish Bycatch in the California Large Mesh Drift Gillnet Fishery

Advisors: Dr. Stephen Stohs, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Heidi Dewar, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO;

Brian Stock, SIO

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X Sabrina Mashburn: Southern California's Sea Turtles: Public Perceptions & Conservation

Advisors: Dr. Jeffrey Seminoff, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Daniel Lawson, NOAA Protected Resources Division;

Dr. Stuart Sandin, SIO

Kate Masury and Emily Tripp: Follow Your Fish: Traceability Case Studies of American Caught Seafood

Advisors: Dr. Theresa Sinicrope Talley, California Sea Grant (Chair); Sarah Shoffler, NOAA SWFSC; Dr.

Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Richard Norris, SIO

Helen Meigs: The biological and market potential of farming Pandalus platyceros along the Pacific coast

Advisors: Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO (Chair); Dr. Dale Squires, NOAA SWFSC, USCD Economics; Dr. Sarah

Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. James Hilger, NOAA SWFSC

Kipp Searles: Understanding the Relationship between Market Price and Fishery Yields in el Golfo de

Santa Clara

Advisors: Dr. Andrew F Johnson, SIO (Chair); Dr. Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, SIO; Catalina López-

Sagástegui, UC MEXUS, UCR

Amber Stronk: A Scientist's Guide to Philanthropy: Bridging the Gap between Marine Conservation

Biologists and Funding

Advisors: Mark Spalding, The Ocean Foundation (Chair); Stuart Krantz, SIO; Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO

Amanda Townsel: Ecotourism or Ecotour-ish? Evaluation of Marine-Based Ecotourism in Marine

Protected Areas of Baja California Sur

Advisors: Dr. Andrew Frederick Johnson, SIO (Chair); Dr. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, UCSD

Communications; Dr. Octavio Aburto, SIO

Emily Tripp and Kate Masury: Follow Your Fish: Traceability Case Studies of American Caught Seafood

Advisors: Dr. Theresa Sinicrope Talley, California Sea Grant (Chair); Sarah Shoffler, NOAA SWFSC; Dr.

Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC; Dr. Richard Norris, SIO

E Jon Walker: Relative abundance of opah (Lampris guttatus) along the California coast from 1982 to

2014

Advisors: Dr. Phil Hastings, SIO (Chair); Dr. Steven Teo, NOAA SWFSC

Shannon Waters: Stand Up for Science: Lessons on Ocean Acidification from the Agua Hedionda Lagoon

Advisors: Dr. Todd Martz (Chair), SIO; Dr. Rachel Millstone, UCSD Education

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2017

Shayna Brody: Unmanned: Investigating the Use of Drones with Marine Mammals

Advisors: Dr. Greg Rouse, SIO (Chair); Dr. John Hildebrand, SIO; Alicia Amerson, Tesla Foundation; Ryan

Wulff, NOAA, IWC; Morgan Heim, Day’s Edge Productions

E Alayne Chappell: Sharks without Borders: Genetic relatedness in Northeastern Pacific Common

Thresher sharks (Alopias vulpinus), and implications for US-Mexico bilateral management

Advisors: Dr. Dovi Kacev, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Dr. Philip Hastings, SIO; Dr. Daniel Cartamil, SIO; Dr.

Andrew Nosal, SIO

Brant Chlebowski: Sustainable Seaweed Aquaculture -Exploring how to grow, sell, and consume a native

seaweed in the emerging culinary market

Advisors: Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO (Chair); Dr. On Amir, UCSD Rady School of Management; Mike Fox, SIO;

Rob Ruiz, Land & Water Co.

Allison Lee Cusick: FjordPhyto: Antarctic Citizen Science Project

Advisors: Dr. Maria Vernet, SIO (Chair); Dr. George Watters, NOAA SWFSC

E Jaclyn Mandoske: Can Blue Carbon Further Conservation? Approaches to Conservation through a

Portfolio of Blue Carbon Options: Case Study in The Bahamas

Advisors: Dr. Katie Arkema (Chair), The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University; Dr. Octavio Aburto,

SIO, Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics

E Maurizio Martinelli: What happened to Big Mama? Exploring changes in size class distribution of

mounding Porites coral on Maui reefs following the 2015 thermal bleaching event

Advisors: Dr. Emily Kelly, SIO (Chair); Dr. Jennifer Smith, SIO; Darla J. White, DLNR Division of Aquatic

Resources

Lynn Massey and Prestyn McCord: AMBAS in Action: How an all women’s group is leading sea turtle

conservation efforts in El Salvador

Advisors: Dr. Jeffrey Seminoff, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Ana Luisa Ahern, EcoViva (Chair); Dr. Alexander

Gaos, Eastern Hawksbill Initiative; Dr. Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management

Ben Meissner: Conservation in Practice: The Implementation of Marine Protected Areas near Resource-

Dependent Fishing Communities in Cuba

Advisors: Dr. Andrew Johnson (SIO); Dr. Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, SIO; Nathan Dappen, Day’s Edge

Productions

Kiersten Miller: Pesca Limpia en El Salvador: Examining Management Measures for the Use of Artificial

Reefs in the Bay of Jiquilisco

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Advisors: Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, Waitt Institute (Chair); Ana Luisa Ahern, EcoViva; Dr. Martin Hall, Inter-

American Tropical Tuna Commission

Abby Newman: Eat with a Porpoise: Measuring the Effectiveness of Seafood Certification and Rating

System Programs to Inform a Vaquita-Friendly Seafood Market

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); Catalina López-Sagástegui, UC MEXUS, UCR; Oriana

Poindexter, NOAA SWFSC

Nina Rosen: The Cooperative Community of Punta Abreojos: Seeking Solutions to the Pressures of Small-

Scale Fisheries

Advisors: Dr. Andrew Johnson, SIO (Chair); Alfredo Girón, SIO; Dr. Mark Jacobsen, UCSD Economics;

Catalina López-Sagástegui, UC MEXUS, UCR

Rachel Sadowski: Make Wetlands Great Again: Reviewing salt marsh vegetation restoration in the Tijuana

River National Estuarine Research Reserve

Advisors: Dr. Jeff Crooks, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (Chair); Dr. Lisa Levin, SIO

Derek Smith: Community perception and recommendations on the use of pot fishing gear in the Gulf of

Alaska sablefish fishery

Advisors: Dr. Sarah Mesnick, NOAA SWFSC (Chair); John Crofts, NOAA Corps

Derek Southern: United States Marine Fisheries Electronic-Catch Reporting: Status Report and

Recommendations

Advisors: Dr. Brice Semmens, SIO (Chair), Dr. Stephen Stohs, NOAA

Lark Starkey: Challenges to Plastic Up-Cycling in Small Island Communities: A Palauan Tale

Advisors: Samantha Murray, SIO (Chair); Dr. George Leonard, Ocean Conservancy; Dr. Brian Zgliczynski,

SIO; Susan Kloulechad, Ebiil Society; Garfield Kwan, SIO

E Kelly Swiech: Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges of Creating a Sustainability Certification for

the Marine Aquarium Trade

Advisors: Dr. Brian Zgliczynski, SIO (Chair); Dr. Yoan Eynaud, SIO

Laura Walsh: Gap Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities for Climate-Smart Storm Water Management in

San Diego

Advisors: Laura Engeman, San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative (Chair), Robert Leiter, UCSD Urban

Studies & Planning

Allard van der Graaf: The Issues of Solid Waste Management on Small Islands. Using Malapascua Island,

Philippines as a Case Study

Advisors: Dr. Mark Jacobson, UCSD Economics (Chair); Dr. Emily Kelly, SIO; Dr. Simon Oliver, University of

Chester; Dr. Nico Ravanilla, UCSD GPS