Spring 2020 Funded Projects

1. Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 for the Santa Barbara Region, Bren School and ERI
Included funding for 3 interns.
Total Funding: $42,344.45

2. Fostering a Lifelong Fascination with Nature – New Tracks, Nature Tracks Foundation
Included funding for 20 interns.
Total Funding: $10,550

3. Goleta Watershed Protection, Education, and Creek Cleanup Program, EDC
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $8,912.32

4. Restoring Fuel Breaks to Promote Native Ecosystem Services, EEMB
Total funding: $3,100

5. Rethink the Drink, CEC
Total funding: $4,222

6. Lead and Microtrash Removal in the Santa Ynez Mountains, Los Padres ForestWatch
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total Funding: $6,049.59

7. Quantifying Microplastic Pollution from Santa Barbara Basin Sediments, MSI
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $6,409.03

8. Internships and additional funding support for conservation, education, and restoration programs for summer and fall 2020, COPR
Included funding for 32 interns.
Total funded: $11,870.98

9. Moving beyond luck: Developing broodstock conditioning protocols to facilitate culture of rock scallops, MSI
Included funding for 4 interns.
Total funded: $9,327.65

10. Adopt-A-Block, Isla Vista Recreation & Park District
Total funded: $6,973

11. IV Surfrider: Blue Water Task Force, Surfrider Foundation
Total funded: $1,565.52

12. Behavioral and Disease Ecology of an Island Endemic Amphibian, CCBER
Included funding for 8 interns.
Total funded: $21,417.68

13. Characterizing the extent of sulfurization in salt marshes, Department of Earth Science
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funded: $8,777.08

14. Native Tree Restoration and Maintenance at UCSB, Your Children’s Trees
Included funding for 3 interns.
Total funded: $1,000

15. UCSB Ocean and Coastal Policy Center Goleta Beach Research and Technical Support, MSI 
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funded: $1,000

16. The role of tidal phase in trophic subsidies to surf zone fish, MSI
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funded: $997

17. Live Dives from Santa Barbara Channel Marine Protected Areas to Improve Ocean Access and Literacy, EDC
Total funded: $990.84

18. Determining the role of DNA methylation in thermal acclimation of Califonia mussels (Mytilus californianus), MSI
Total funded: $697.89

19. Mutt Mitts, Isla Vista Recreation Park District
Total funded: $979

20. Impact of Natural Disasters on the Native Olympia Oyster in the Santa Barbara Watershed, Bren School
Total funded: $1,000

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