Winter 2022 Grants

Total funding awarded in Winter 2022 was $149,872, of which $78,131 was specifically reserved to pay students working on projects.

Supplies for Undergraduate Scientific Divers and Trainees: $6,000.00
Environmental Health & Safety
Proposed and led by an undergraduate student!

Watershed Resource Center Internship Program: $5,632.00
Explore Ecology

Restoration Internship Program 2022: $8,100.00
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration

Coastal ticks: examining the link between restoration and tick-borne disease risk in Santa Barbara: $15,592.00
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Applied Marine Science: Students Conducting Critical Kelp Forest Monitoring Across the Santa Barbara Channel: $19,200.00
Marine Science Institute

Return of the Wetland: $8,500.00
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration

Acorns to Oaks: $1,305.59
Environmental Studies Program
Proposed and led by an undergraduate student!

Plan Bee: $11,165.00
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
Proposed and led by an undergraduate student!

The Coastal Media Project: $11,288.00
Carsey-Wolf Center

Plankton utilization by suspension feeding invertebrates in SBC kelp forests: $7,800.00
Marine Science Institute
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Reef Check California: $20,000.00
Reef Check Foundation

Collaborative Stewardship of Santa Barbara Channel MPAs: $10,000.00
Environmental Defense Center

The combined effects of fluctuating temperature and diet on the physiological performance of generalist intertidal fish: $10,500.00
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Assessing success of restored vernal pool ecosystems: $8,540.00
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Measuring photosynthetic capacity to inform plant selection in chaparral restoration: $999.60
Marine Science Institute
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Plastic Opt Out: Reduce Plastic Use in IV Restaurants: $930.41
Environmental Studies Program
Proposed and led by an undergraduate student!

Managing restored vernal pools through thatch manipulation: $1,000.00
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Increasing understanding of recycled nitrogen as a source to kelp forest productivity in the Santa Barbara Channel through undergraduate research involvement and training: $1,000.00
Marine Science Institute
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

The effect of wildfire and debris flows on native semiaquatic herpetological species in a Santa Barbara County coastal watershed: $1,000.00
Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Investigating effects of organic amendments on inorganic carbon stocks in coastal grasslands: $1,000.00
Earth Research Institute
Proposed and led by a graduate student!

Sprout Up UCSB: $320.00
Sprout Up
Proposed and led by an undergraduate student!

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