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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

The striped shore crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes) is a small crab found all along the West Coast of North America, and it is extremely abundant in Elkhorn Slough.

Salt marsh resilience compromised by crabs along tidal creek edges

School of fish swimming towards camera.

California Sea Grant celebrates two national fisheries fellowship winners

A garibaldi swims through a California Marine Protected Area.

A new tool will put Marine Protected Area data in the palm of resource managers’ hands

A garibaldi swims through a California Marine Protected Area. Credit: NOAA

Colorful invertebrates cover a rocky habitat inside Sea Lion Gulch State Marine Reserve.

Expedition rocky reef: Using a remotely operated vehicle to explore the diversity of California’s marine protected areas

Colorful invertebrates cover a rocky habitat inside Sea Lion Gulch State Marine Reserve.

Jessica Rudnick is a California Sea Grant Extension Specialist working with the Delta Stewardship Council

Q&A with Jessica Rudnick

Russian River with low water flow.

Stewarding Our Change

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

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

Shifting species: Morro Bay seagrass loss causes change in fish populations