Out in the North Pacific Ocean, a combination of chemical sludge, plastic and other debris circulate in a slow-moving spiral of currents. This unusually dense patch of man-made marine debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a problem of international scale. Mandy Sackett is tackling the … Continue reading »
Kelly Keen, a 2013 California Sea Grant State Fellow, has accepted a job as an environmental scientist at the California State Lands Commission. “After collecting and analyzing field data for a number of years, I was interested in how science was being used to shape policy and management decisions to protect marine and coastal ecosystems,” … Continue reading »
Millions of krill—tiny shrimp-like animals that are food for salmon, whales and other large marine species—have been washing up on beaches from Bodega Bay, Calif. to Newport, Ore. in recent weeks. Joe Tyburczy, a California Sea Grant Coastal Specialist in Eureka, is trying to figure out why, with colleagues from NOAA, Humboldt State University and Oregon … Continue reading »
Gavin McNicol, a Berkeley doctoral student and Delta Science Fellow, wants to quantify the carbon-credit value of restoring wetlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta. His starting point is the “red” side of the carbon budget ledger – the well-known fact that wetlands, besides sequestering carbon through plant growth and peat formation, can also produce methane, … Continue reading »
What will it be like to live in San Diego in 2050? We might imagine traffic, or home prices, a more urban environment. More technology, more people. But what about our changing climate? How will it impact our quality of life? Many of us love San Diego precisely because we love our bluebird skies and … Continue reading »
Carey Batha, a University of California graduate student and former research assistant with Sonoma State University, has won a California Sea Grant Extension Fellowship at the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco. Batha will begin her 2-year fellowship in early July, upon completing her master’s degree in Environmental Science and Management from the Donald Bren … Continue reading »
