We are graduates of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Bren School website is www.bren.ucsb.edu.

The Bren School offers an interdisciplinary education in science and policy that includes a unique version of a Master’s Thesis: the group project. The concept of the group project is that several students work collaboratively on a real-world environmental issue, under the supervision of a Bren School professor(s), and working with an actual client and outside stakeholders. Our group project, A Framework for Evaluating Water Ownership and Management Alternatives, was the result of a proposal written by Benjamin Pink for our client, the City of Thousand Oaks. Our advisors for the project were Robert Wilkinson PhD., director of the water policy program at the Bren School, and Dennis Aigner, former dean of the Bren School. Please read our biographies below. Our contact information and resumes are also available. 

Claire Cowan Bio Resume
Audrey Mescher Bio Resume
Josh Miller Bio Resume
Kevin Pettway Bio Resume
Benjamin Pink Bio Resume


L to R: Kevin, Ben, Josh, Aubrey, Claire

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