Spring 2017 Funded Projects

 
1. Restoration Intern Training Program Summer & Fall 2017
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$2,250
Included funding for 6 interns
 

2. Kids in Nature Peer-to Peer Environmental Education Program
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$21,083
Included funding for 8 interns
 

3. Fostering a Lifelong Fascination with Nature
Organization: Nature Track
$9,375
 

4. Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media 2017
Organization: Carsey-Wolf Center
$4,034
 

5. Putting an End to the Phillips 66 Rail Spur Extension Project
Organization: Environmental Defense Center
$10,000
Included funding for 1 intern
 

6. Across the Channel: Investigating Diel Dynamics (ACIDD)
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$12,000
 

7. Supporting Students in Natural History Collections Research
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$1,500
Included funding for 4 interns
 

8. MPA Watch Internship Program
Organization: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
$4,421.84
Included funding for 2 interns
 

9. Research Mentoring Continuation
Organization:  Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$8,602
Included funding for 6 interns
 

10. UCSB campus native tree restoration and maintenance
Organization: Your Children’s Trees At UCSB
$7,607.52
Included funding for 10 interns
 

11. Internships and additional funding support for conservation, education, and restoration programs
Organization: Coal Oil Point Reserve
$11,573.12
Included funding for 27 interns
 

12. Competition Between Chaparral Obligate Seeder Shrubs and Invasive Grasses
Organization: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
$3,248.66
Included funding for 1 intern
 

13. Consumer-mediated nutrient cycling in kelp forests: identifying how consumer hotspots drive primary production in the Santa Barbara Channel
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$9,362.40
Included funding for 3 interns
 

14. Educational Signage
Organization: Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District
$1,813.89
 

15. Adopt a Block Program
Organization: Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District
$2,258
Included funding for 2 interns
 

16. Defending Goleta Beach from the Destructive Effects of Coastal Armoring
Organization: Surfrider Santa Barbara Chapter
$7,454
Included funding for 1 intern
 

17. The Golden Forest
Organization: REEF
$900
 

18. Short Film Project From Golf Course to Wetlands; the Restoration of the Upper Arms of the Devereaux Slough
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$1,000
 

19. Intraspecific diversity in dimethylsulphoniopropionate-lyase activity in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi found within the Santa Barbara Channel
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$996.98
 

20. Reef Check California
organization : Reef Check Foundation
$1,000
Included funding for 1 intern
 

21. Goleta Slough Monitoring Program
Organization: Santa Barbara Audubon Society
$962.50
 

22. Plumes and Blooms NASA Oceanographic Cruise
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$975
 

TOTAL FUNDED: $125,445.63

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