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2024 State Fellows

California Sea Grant welcomes new 2024 class of state fellows

The year-long fellowship offers hands-on training related to policy and management of marine, coastal and watershed resources.

Binational fellow Meliza Le Alvarado surfacing from a dive

Bridging Borders for Coastal Resilience

California Sea Grant’s First-Ever Binational Climate Fellow Meliza Le Alvarado forges coastal collaborations

Michael Wells and his dog

From finance to shaping a sustainable future

California Sea Grant State Fellow Michael Wells looked at lithium extraction to help California reach its targets for clean air and climate change

California Sea Grant announces finalists for the 2022 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

2024 Knauss Fellowship Finalists announced

Two California graduate students to join prestigious program

A group of fellows sitting.

How California Sea Grant State Fellows Influence Good Policymaking Everywhere

Over 300 aspiring researchers & future policymakers have spent year-long forays in the decades old program polishing their best skills & discovering new strengths

Natalie Cross headshot

2023 NOAA Coastal Management Fellows Announced

Natalie Cross, a recent Stanford graduate, among the slate of fellows

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Finding the Human Dimension in Environmental Management

2022 California Sea Grant State Fellow Aaron Angel explains how combining social and ecological data can improve monitoring programs across the state

Carina Fish headshot.

Knauss fellow Carina Fish melds justice and science

Working in a senate office reveals ‘how the cookie is made’

Meliza Le Alvaredo headshot

California Sea Grant Welcomes Binational Climate Fellow

Through a new fellowship, Meliza Le Alvarado will improve access to coastal resilience science for communities around the San Diego-Northern Baja California region.

Cloudy blue water rushes through rocks in the Trinity River as the evening sunlight shines on a section of evergreen trees lining the rocky river bed.

Pathogen-Resistant Salmon Stock May Signal Hope For The Upper Klamath River

Graduate Research Fellow Leah Mellinger finds promising results in the effort to restock the Upper Klamath River

A collage of headshots of the 27 state fellows in the 2023 cohort

California Sea Grant welcomes new class of state fellows

The year-long fellowship offers hands-on training related to policy and management of marine, coastal and watershed resources.

A collage of headshots of the 27 state fellows in the 2023 cohort

California Sea Grant welcomes new class of state fellows

The year-long fellowship offers hands-on training related to policy and management of marine, coastal and watershed resources.

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service-Sea Grant Fellow Sabrina Beyer stands on a boat holding a rockfish

How Ocean Conditions Change Rockfish Reproduction

A Q&A with recent NMFS-Sea Grant Fellow Sabrina Beyer

Two people standing among phragmites. Courtesy of Richelle Tanner.

A study of a marsh ecosystem grows into a consideration of what science can be

By embracing complexity and nuance, Chapman University’s Richelle Tanner is searching for a more inclusive and effective approach to biology

Aerial shot of landscape. Courtesy of DJ Fogbound.

Pinning down the pesticides

The volume and variety of pesticides sprayed in California seem almost incomprehensible. Nonetheless, Delta Science Fellow Nicol Parker has built a model that can track their toxic spread