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2024 Knauss Fellowship Finalists announced
Two California graduate students to join prestigious program

Sharing Ocean Space to Boost Seafood Production
California Sea Grant’s New Website Offers Solutions For Shrinking America’s Seafood Deficit

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

New Website Shares Beach-Monitoring Data
Decades of community science now, for the first time, easily accessible

Readying Southern California for a Growing Aquaculture Industry:
Designing and launching a community college aquaculture workforce development program

Cutting-Edge Science for Kelp Restoration
Results from six innovative research projects will help protect and restore California's vital kelp forests

2023 NOAA Coastal Management Fellows Announced
Natalie Cross, a recent Stanford graduate, among the slate of fellows

Searching for California condors’ new home
A pair of California researchers combine novel techniques to offer iconic birds a new hope


Ready for the Next Step: Underrepresented & Minority Undergrads Wrap Up Their California Sea Grant Internships
The year-long internships focus on kelp recovery, but the opportunity allows students to gain new experiences in science. For some, it’s helping to launch new careers.

Roe Crops: How Sacramento Became the Caviar Capital of the U.S.
Bolstered by steady funding assistance from California Sea Grant, California’s white sturgeon were successfully brought into domestication

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

Spent nuclear fuel sits on a crumbling California coastline. So what to do?
A Cal Poly Humboldt research team considers varied viewpoints on a tangled problem

Knauss fellow Carina Fish melds justice and science
Working in a senate office reveals ‘how the cookie is made’

Forging community and joint voices in the face of DDT’s environmental threat
When offshore DDT disposal in California resurfaced in the media, two Sea Grant programs joined forces

Who’s At Risk? A New California Sea Grant Study Assesses Contaminant Levels in Spiny Lobster & Crab Harvested from San Diego Bay
Where shellfish is caught and which parts are eaten can impact risks.

‘Everybody thinks the ocean is limitless’
Fisherman Pete Halmay believes that both science and experience play a role in sustaining local fisheries. As told to Ute Eberle.

The story in the data
Marine science interns turn to storytelling to clarify the numbers behind hypoxia in California

The unassuming device that maps California’s fish eggs
California Sea Grant funding helped an innovative tool spread across the world

Press Release: Can genetic rescue be used as a tool to save endangered species?
Researchers from UC Berkeley, NOAA and California Sea Grant say the technique is being used to bolster California’s endangered coho salmon.