Fall 2017 Funded Projects

1. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration:  “Golf Course to Wetland” – Feature Documentary Film
Total funding: $11,097

2. Native Species Diversity and Grassland Community Resistance to Reinvasion by Exotic Annual Grasses, EEMB
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $3,454

3. Coal Oil Point Reserve: Internships and Additional Funding Support for Conservation, Education, and Restoration Programs for Winter and Spring 2018
Included funding for 27 interns.
Total funding: $10,450

4. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: UCSB Campus Lagoon Restoration – Building on Success
Total funding: $7,096

5. Environmental Defense Center: Goleta Watershed Protection and Creek Clean-up Program
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $3,473.33

6. Your Children’s Trees at UCSB: Tree Restoration and Maintenance at UCSB Campus
Included funding for 7 interns.
Total funding: $8,732.50

7. Marine Science Institute: Community Alliance for Surveying Topography of Sandy Beaches (CoAST SB)
Included funding for 10 interns.
Total funding: $8,670

8. Marine Science Institute: Nitrous oxide dynamics in the Santa Barbara Channel
Total funding: $13,032.12

9. Bren Sustainable Aquaculture Research Center: Scoping and Drafting Best Management Practices for Offshore Aquaculture
Total funding: $8,083.68

10. UCSB Earth Research Institute: Detection and Toxicity of Anthropogenic Releases of Nanoparticles into a Marine Environment
Total funding: $3,240

11. Reef Check Foundation: Reef Check California 
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $16,900

12. Earth Research Institute: From Soil to Sea: Understanding Invasive Arundo Donax from Establishment to Decomposition 
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $4,880.80

13. UCSB Early Childhood Care and Education Services: Coastal Ecology Literacy for Early Childhood Education
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $11,936

14. Environmental Defense Center: Restoring Our Marine Environment
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $5,000

15. Surfrider Foundation – Santa Barbara: Defending Goleta Beach from the Destructive Effects of Coastal Armoring
Included funding for 3 interns.
Total funding: $13,190

16. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Spatial Variations of Coccinellidae within Restored and Non-Restored Areas
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $575

17. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Promotion and Outreach for the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
Included funding for 1 intern. 
Total funding: $800

18. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Documenting Ecological Succession in the Santa Ynez Mountains after the 2017 Whittier Fire
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $956.14

19. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: North Campus Open Space Native Plant Voucher and Non-Native Reference Collection
Total funding: $1,000

20. UCSB Environmental Health & Safety: Gear for UCSB Student Scientific Dive Class 
Total funding: $700

21. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: West Campus Bluffs: Strategy for Coastal Open Space Management 
Including funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $900

22. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Water Quality Monitoring of Restored North Campus Open Space Channels 
Including funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $998.25

23. UCSB EEMB: Carolline Investigation of Larval Recruitment 
Total funding: $986.74

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