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Researchers launch CTD equipment to better understand ocean acidification and hypoxia. Photo Credit - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program

New research to focus on ocean acidification and hypoxia in California’s coastal ocean

Newly funded research projects from California Sea Grant

California Sea Grant announces newly funded research prioritizing aquaculture and graduate research

A juvenile California coho salmon.

Research Update: Managing Water for Coho Salmon and Communities

Bull kelp.

Scientists create a “seed bank” to preserve bull kelp

California Sea Grant State Fellows 2022.

Welcome 2022 California Sea Grant State Fellows

Woman in yellow jacket sitting on riprap next to bay.

New study measures contaminant levels in feral San Diego Bay oysters

Reef Check divers swim along a transect line to monitor California's marine protected areas. Photo credit: Helen Brierley

California marine protected area long term monitoring program final reports 2019-2021

russian river diver

Completed marine protected area monitoring projects will contribute to upcoming review

Cows in grass field.

Gassy cows are warming the planet, and scientists are turning to the sea for answers

Kelp.

New Guidance for Kelp Management Efforts in California

Scripps Pier.

California Sea Grant welcomes Lian Guo as the new Research Coordinator

Lian Guo joins the team at California Sea Grant, which is based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

A group of community members joins the CCFRP scientists aboard the fishing boat Kahuna for a day on the Monterey Bay.

Community science for Marine Protected Areas

Kelp macro shot.

Protection from harvesting may help kelp forests flourish, but is it enough in the face of climate change?

boats

MPA Update: Fishing Communities- an Integral Part of California’s Coastal Management Approach

Erin Satterthwaite.

Erin Satterthwaite awarded 2021 Zhu-Peterson Early Career Scientist Award

A white abalone showing its distinctive face, with two long cephalic tentacles below its eyes. These tentacles are how the abalone sense the surrounding environment.

Bringing endangered abalone back from the brink

The team prepares to deploy their aquatic eddy covariance (ARC) benthic flux system in the Bay-Delta.

Delta Science Update: Is regulatory action successful in reducing Bay-Delta nitrogen pollution?

Giant Kelp off of California (credit NOAA).

Reforesting California’s kelp forests, one pebble at a time

California coast.

California Sea Grant Welcomes New Resilient Communities Research Associate

The team drags a large beach seine through the shallow water.

MPA Update: A Biodiversity Treasure Hunt

The team drags a large beach seine through the shallow water.

Rocky intertidal up close.

California’s Marine Protected Areas are safeguarding rocky intertidal zones

Kat Beheshti California Sea Grant. Credit Jaqueline Schwartz

Reflecting on my fellowship

Kelp and urchin macro shot.

California Sea Grant awarded "Food from the Sea" Career Program Development Projects funding

Flooding in Southern California

San Diego Climate Resilience Planning Report Calls For Coordinated and Science-Based Co-Production of Adaptation Planning

Crab fishermen in Northern California.

California, Oregon and Washington Sea Grants Receive NOAA Funding to Address the Pandemic’s Impacts on the Seafood Industry