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    Eric Martin worked at the University of Maryland Golf Course where he helped reduce carbon emissions and electricity usage. He did this by properly plugging in and charging electric carts, picking the driving range more efficiently to use gas carts less, and utilizing electric carts more than gas carts. This helped cut the golf course's electricity costs and carbon footprint while protecting local wildlife habitats. Going forward, he hopes to raise awareness of carbon footprints and encourage more sustainable practices in his engineering work and daily life.

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    Eric Martin worked at the University of Maryland Golf Course where he helped reduce carbon emissions and electricity usage. He did this by properly plugging in and charging electric carts, picking the driving range more efficiently to use gas carts less, and utilizing electric carts more than gas carts. This helped cut the golf course's electricity costs and carbon footprint while protecting local wildlife habitats. Going forward, he hopes to raise awareness of carbon footprints and encourage more sustainable practices in his engineering work and daily life.

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    Getting Charged Up Over Carbon Emissions

    Eric Martin
    emart32@umd.edu
    Environment, Technology and Economy
    Civil Engineering

    Site Activities
    • I worked at the University of • Wash, charge, and maintain
    Maryland Golf Course carts for golfers to utilize
    • The course provides an throughout their round
    affordable, recreational • Collect and clean range balls
    experience while protecting
    natural habitats of local wildlife Impact
    • Cut electricity usage and cost
    of the golf course by properly
    plugging in carts and not Cart Garage- The University of
    plugging them in as Maryland Golf Course has 70
    frequently electric carts at their disposal, all of
    • Picked the range fewer times which have their own charger
    a day for longer so that gas greatly impacting the course’s
    was not used constantly going electricity consumption
    back and forth from range to Photo courtesy of Eric Martin
    clubhouse and reducing the
    course’s carbon footprint
    Range Carts- The range carts are • Utilized electric carts more Future Work
    utilized to pick the range, than gas carts, reducing local
    transport golf balls, and run on carbon emissions • Focus on making others
    combustion engines aware of their carbon
    Photo courtesy of Eric Martin footprint and encourage
    them to utilize gas less and
    electric vehicles more
    Issues • Ensure the environmental
    protection of wildlife
    • Carts are plugged in wrong, through sustainability in
    increasing the course’s civil engineering
    electricity consumption • Reduce my carbon
    • Range is picked inefficiently footprint in my daily life
    resulting in gas carts being and through work by being
    utilized more and increasing conscious about how much
    carbon emissions which affect Relation of CO2 Emissions to electricity and gas I use
    global warming Global Warming
    Carbon dioxide produced by the
    • The electric carts and gas
    combustion of gas leads to global
    Acknowledgements
    carts are used
    disproportionately to how surface temperature rise • Brian Dix
    Figure 1
    they should be utilized • Ken Lozupone
    (electric carts more than gas) • Tim Knight

    Source for Figure 1: Williams, R. G., Roussenov, V., Goodwin, P., Resplandy, L., & Bopp, L. (2017). Sensitivity of Global Warming to Carbon
    Emissions: Effects of Heat and Carbon Uptake in a Suite of Earth System Models. Journal of Climate, 30(23), 9343–9363.

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