Cost-effective evaluation of Mid-Depth Rocky Reef Ecosystems in California: continued monitoring of the oldest MPAs in the CA network
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Jennifer Caselle (UC Santa Barbara)
PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR: California Sea Grant
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT:
This project continues long-term mid-depth reef data collection using Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUVs) in the oldest region of the California MPA network. This will provide critical data on habitat and environmental conditions of key fisheries and non-fisheries species, helping to guide adaptive management of the state’s Marine Protected Area network.
Continued Monitoring of Mid-Depth Rocky Reef Habitats within California’s MPA Network Using a Remotely Operated Vehicle
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS:
Andrew Lauermann (Marine Applied Research & Exploration)
CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS:
Nicholas Perkins (University of Tasmania)
Six Early-Career Scientists Awarded Delta Science Fellowships
The Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Science Program and California Sea Grant are pleased to announce six recipients of the 2025 Delta Science Fellowship. Each fellowship provides up to two years of support to pursue research that will advance the state of knowledge underlying high-priority science issues that affect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) and its management.
'No boring day’ in a transformative year
'No boring day’ in a transformative year
Before her John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, Tricia Light had spent five years completing a Ph.D. at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Her days were spent in scientific laboratories, then, or aboard research vessels. So the marble hallways of a Washington, D.C., executive office were a starkly new setting.
A career spanning boundaries
A career spanning boundaries
As a master’s student at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Laura Engeman hoped to launch a career in coastal and ocean protection policy. Her faculty advisor suggested she look into an organization called California Sea Grant, which offered a program that placed fellows in state agencies.
Engeman applied and was accepted — and unwittingly found the compass that would guide much of her subsequent career.