Spring 2018 Funded Projects

1. Carsey-Wolf Center: Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media
Total funding: $4,917

2. Santa Barbara Channelkeeper: MPA Watch Internship Program
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $5,889

3. NatureTrack Foundation: Fostering a Lifelong Fascination with Nature
Included funding for 20 interns.
Total funding: $12,750

4. County of Santa Barbara Community Services Department Parks Division: Camino Pescadaro Beach Access Stair Replacement 
Total funding: $10,000

5. Environmental Defense Center: Preventing ExxonMobil’s Oil by Truck
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $10,000

6. Marine Science Institute: Enhancing Environmental Education, Research and Outreach Through a Student-Run Hatchery
Included funding for 6 interns.
Total funding: $27,490

7. Coal Oil Point Restoration: Internships and Additional Funding Support for Conservation, Education and Restoration Programs
Included funding for 4 interns.
Total funding: $13,260

8. Modeling the effects of connected impervious surfaces on groundwater recharge rates and nitrogen uptake in an urban semi-arid environment
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $13,260

9. Isla Vista Recreation and Park District: Adopt-A-Block
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $6,337.57

10. Los Padres ForestWatch: Santa Barbara Frontcountry Degradation Prevention Program
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $10,235

11. Marine Science Institute: Effect of Nutrients Leached from Mud from Recent Mudflows on Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics in the Santa Barbara Channel
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $17,801.95

12. Isla Vista Surfrider: Community Compost Pilot Program
Included funding for 7 interns.
Total funding: $6737

13. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Enhancing Coastal Raptor Habitat at Storke Wetland
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $998.01

14. Surfrider Foundation- Santa Barbara: Creative Writer as Witness: Science Writing on the Santa Barbara Coast
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $1000

15. Sea Grant, NOAA, SCCOOS, UCSC: Identifying patchworks of toxic green and red tides across the Northern Channel Islands and zooming in to sources of biotoxin patchiness within the Santa Barbara Channel
Total funding: $992

16. Earth Science Institute: The Intertidal Macroalgae of Santa Rosa Island, Santa Barbara County, California
Total funding: $1000

17. UCSB Environmental Studies Program: Assessment of the effects of granivores on the restoration of CA grasslands
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $1000

18. Kuya’mu Park Association: Financial Plan for Kuya’mu Park Association
Total funding: $975

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