This is the first in a yearlong series of stories showcasing the research that the Ocean Protection Council supported in partnership with California Sea Grant, with funding from Proposition 84.

This is the second in a yearlong series of stories showcasing the research that the Ocean Protection Council supported in partnership with California Sea Grant, with funding from Proposition 84.

Thousands of years before Europeans arrived, the Pacific Coast was home to a staggering array of cultures and languages. That history, too often overlooked, was highlighted in a November training for California Sea Grant staff, in a partnership with the Climate Science Alliance.

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January 23, 2024

In coastal California, adult coho salmon and steelhead swim up small streams to breed during the winter rainy season, when flows are high. Many of their offspring spend their first months or years in those same streams where, during the summer dry season, flows can become dangerously low.

If there is one thing Meliza Le Alvarado has learned during the first year of her pioneering Binational Climate Fellowship, it’s this: Forging cross-national partnerships to strengthen coastal resilience is not something that happens from behind the computer. 

“The people on the front lines are out there doing things,” says Le Alvarado.