Projects Funded: 12
Total Amount Distributed: $69,199.89
Project: Project: Devereux Slough Monitoring Program Course
Amount Funded: $2,000.00
This project monitors parameters including fish sampling, sedimentation rates, vegetation surveys and water quality measurements. It educates UCSB students and the community through field research and outreach.
For more information, please visit http://coaloilpoint.ucnrs.org/index.html
Project: GreenScreen Environmental Media Program
Amount Funded: $3,350.00
This program brings together environmental filmmakers and media artists working for the preservation of the SB coast. This program communicates the importance of coastal issues to students and community members to take action. Videos are sent to classes around campus, shown on SB channels, and UC television, in environmental film festivals and the internet.
For more information, please visit http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/Programs/EMI/Teaching/GS_splash.html
Project: Watershed Resource Center Internships
Amount Funded: $5,000.00
Objective of project is to raise public awareness of SB’s unique watersheds and ocean environments and importance of pollution prevention. Two UCSB students work as interns with AFS Green Schools staff at the South Coast Watershed Resource Center (WRC) in development and management of community programming.
For more information, please visit http://www.artfromscrap.org/wrc_index.html
Project: Internships and Trail Improvement at COPR
Amount Funded: $6,300.00
COPR maintains group of interns to enhance margins of the Devereux Slough, areas surrounding the dune swale pond and restore sections of the pond trail.
For more information, please visit http://coaloilpoint.ucnrs.org/
Project: San Nicolas Wetland Restoration Project
Amount Funded: $9,870.00
CCBER will be restoring a 1.5 acre site adjacent to De La Guerra Dinging, on the north shore of the Campus Lagoon, into a freshwater wetland and associated plant communities. 3 UCSB student interns are currently helping to restore the land.
For more information, please visit http://ccber.lifesci.ucsb.edu/
Project: Native Tree Project
Amount Funded: $3,797.39
Goleta Valley Beautiful, subleases a Greenhouse on University grounds near Coal Oil Point. With the assistance of Developmentally Disable clients and UCSB student interns and volunteers, GVB is growing 2000 native trees and planting an average of 500 trees. UCSB student interns manage the Greenhouse.
For more information, please visit http://www.goletavalleybeautiful.org/Home.asp
Project: Reef Check California
Amount Funded: $9,575.00
RCCA trains students in monitoring protocols for key rockey reef indicator species. Students then participate in RCCA’s bi-annual surveys along the Santa Barbara coast and Channel Islands. RCCA is providing UCSB with increased opportunities for immersion learning, field experience, and active engagement in marine management processes in California.
For more information, please visit http://reefcheck.org/default.php
Project: Summer Beach Lifeguard Service for Campus Point
Amount Funded: $7,217.00
The objective is to provide lifeguard service at Campus Point during the busiest days of the summer to enhance the safety of the public. UCSB student interns serve as lifeguards.
Project: Compete Understanding of How Predators Impact Community Diversity
Amount Funded: $6,544.50
This project is a study of how predator-predator interactions and temperature impact the ability of two common predator species from local intertidal communities to regulate prey populations. Furthermore, a UCSB student intern is responsible for a majority of testing and individual project explorations.
Project: Improved Identification of Sewage Discharge Using Optical Brighteners
Amount Funded: $3,528.00
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper requested funding in order to develop an optical brightener sampling methodology for indicator bacteria to provide a relatively inexpensive method to pinpoint the locations of potentially harmful sewage discharges.
For more information, please visit http://www.sbck.org/
Project: Elwood Mesa Trail Management, Rehabilitation, and Interpretive Program
Amount funded: $6,000.00
This project is to have SBTC work with City of Goleta to update the recreation element of the Open Space and Habitat Management Plan for Ellwood mesa, undertake rehabilitation to portions of the Bluffs and to interpretative materials designed to mitigate issues relating to the snowy plover and use of the area by dog owners and other users.
For more information, please visit http://www.sbtrails.org/
Project: Beach Ecosystem: Nutrient Sponge and Recycling Plant
Amount funded: $3,554.00
This project is an examination of beach groundwater nutrient cycling mechanisms. Furthermore, an undergraduate assistant will work and have the opportunity to become involved with the Santa Barbara Coast LTER project at the Marine Science Institute upon completion.
Project: Explore Gavitota Coast! Fun Run and Hike
Amount funded: $580.00
This is a fun run and hike to provide people with the opportunity to go out to the Gaviota Coast and enjoy it.
Project: Goleta Beach Outreach and Education
Amount funded: $990.00
This project is the development of critical summary fact sheets for education and outreach to the campus community including students, staff and faculty, County Board of Supervisors, County Parks, student organizations such as the IV Surfrider Foundation and Environmental Affairs Board, the California Coastal Commission and other decision markers.
Project: Studies of fouling communities
Amount funded: $894.00
This project is to study the types and spread of exotic invasive species in harbors of which supported UCSB undergraduate student interns during Summer.