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Cal Poly Student Research

Students have completed over 250 research projects at SPR, representing subject areas from Cal Poly every college. Student materials submitted since 2009, including student classwork, senior projects, and master’s theses, are available as full text downloads. Pre-2009 student works are not available for download at this time. Please refer to a partial list of all student research.

Student Research from 2020 2020

A FLORISTIC STUDY OF THE CAL POLY SWANTON PACIFIC RANCH AND A NEW COMBINATION IN SANICULA CRASSICAULIS (APIACEAE), SANICULA CRASSICAULIS VAR. NUDICAULIS, Reed J. Kenny

Student Research from 2019 2019

Modifying Succession: A History of Vegetation Alliances on Swanton Pacific Ranch, Jill Wilson O'Connor

Student Research from 2018 2018

Quantifying the Environmental Performance of a Stream Habitat Improvement Project, Cody Morse

Field Investigation of Stream-Aquifer Interactions: A Case Study in Coastal California, Devin Pritchard-Peterson

Student Research from 2017 2017

Swanton Pacific Railroad - Track Maintainer Upgrades, Jakob Graf and Dustin Platt

Spatiotemporal Variability in the Macroinvertebrate Community of a Small Coastal California Stream, Little Creek, Davenport, California, John Patrick Hardy

Student Research from 2016 2016

Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project, Benjmain O. Cook

Hydrologic Characteristics of Summer Stream Temperatures in Little Creek and Scotts Creek at the Swanton Pacific Ranch, Justin M. Louen

From the Berkeley Hills to Bishop Peak: Acquisition and Use of Land at Cal Poly and UC Berkeley, Paul J. Michaels

Student Research from 2015 2015

Detecting Change in Central California Coast Coho Salmon Habitat in Scotts Creek, California, from 1997–2013, Ashley Brubaker Hillard

Digitization of Disturbance History for Swanton Pacific Ranch from 1989 to 2015, Daniel McQuillan

Designing and Creating a Website: "Low-Stress Handling Beef Cattle", Lauren Rothstein

Una Legua Cuadrada: Exploring the History of Swanton Pacific Ranch and Environs, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Student Research from 2014 2014

Classification of Plot-Level Fire-Caused Tree Mortality in a Redwood Forest Using Digital Orthophotography and Lidar, Brian David Bishop

Evaluating Five Years of Soil Hydrologic Response Following the 2009 Lockheed Fire in the Coastal Santa Cruz Mountains of California, Mary Theresa Crable

Investigating meter scale topographic variation as a factor of Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) growing conditions at Kenneth Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Cambria, CA, William J. Meyst

Project Proposal and Development Plan for a New Security Gate at Swanton Pacific Ranch, K. Morgan Perry

Evaluation of Red Alder Mortality in the Little Creek Watershed Following the 2009 Lockheed Fire, Dylan Robert Theobald

Student Research from 2013 2013

Testing Subspecies Limits in Monardella villosa, Taylor McLaughlin Crow Mr.

Design and Construction of a Remedial Pumping System, Brandon Downing

The Influence of Hydrogeomorphology, Soil Redox Conditions, and Salinity on the Spatial Zoning of Saltgrass, Salt Rush, and Cattails in Scotts Creek Marsh, Swanton Pacific Ranch, CA, Mark D. Gormley

Post-fire Response of Little Creek Watershed: Evaluation of Change in Sediment Production and Suspended Sediment Transport, Andrew Wood Loganbill

Road Cuts and Atterberg Limits of Little Creek Road, Christopher A. Marquis

Evaluation of the Brock Center for Agricultural Communication, Jennifer Ray

A Study of Escherichia coli Presence in Viscera Before and After Anaerobic Composting, Grant M. Williams

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