California Sea Grant provides unique educational opportunities for graduate students in the form of 12-month paid fellowships. Hayley Carter joined the Ocean Science Trust as a 2013 California Sea Grant Fellow and is continuing her work with OST as a Project Scientist. The following is a guest post from Hayley. Scuba diving, underwater landscapes, kelp … Continue reading
California Sea Grant provides unique educational opportunities for graduate students in the form of 12-month paid fellowships. Laura Lilly is the new Sea Grant fellow for SCCOOS, CeNCOOS and NANOOS with the West Coast Governors Alliance (WCGA) Ocean Data Portal (ODP). This one-year West Coast Oceanographic Data Integration Fellowship began November 2013. Laura is hosted … Continue reading
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
California Sea Grant today announced the winners of the What R U Doing? State Fellows Video Contest, with winning topics covering coastal wetlands restoration, ocean acidification, and marine protected areas. Ariadne Reynolds, a state fellow from the South Coast Program, State Coastal Conservancy, took home a $1,000 prize for her first place video, “Restoring Southern … Continue reading
LA JOLLA – Curious about what lurks and flourishes in the deep canyon right off our coast? Check out this rare underwater video footage of the La Jolla submarine canyon, taken on March 26, 2013, as part of a California Sea Grant project to understand how small marine creatures respond to the watery world around them. … Continue reading
