Coastal Fund was once again active in supporting a wide range of projects and activities that enhance our local coastline. Each year coastal fund grants total approximately $300,000 for the year. Applications to the fund are rigorously vetted by students and projects are required to report on their progress. Almost all grants from Coastal Fund fund student internships as part of the project.
Coastal Fund’s Coastal Service Program encourages student groups to participate in beach clean-ups and environmental restoration projects by compensating them for their efforts. For beach clean-ups the compensation is $100 for 2 hours. For the restoration projects, it’s $200 for a 2-3 hour commitment. Students clean several local beaches, including Goleta Beach/Campus Point, Depressions/Lagoon Area, IV Beach, and Devereux/Sands Beach.
This year’s Coastal Fund Board was: Gad Girling, Kelsey Bisson, Jack Morrow, Lauren Croshaw, Samantha Fulgham, Sara Rosenblatt, Daniel Ellis, and Jonathan Rothschild.
The Coastal Fund’s website lists the projects it funds. You can see them below for 2014/15 and click here for previous years.
FALL 2014
1. Coal Oil Point Reserve natural history documentary: A haven of wilderness in urban Santa Barbara
Including $300 for UCSB Student PAs
Total funding for project is $880.00
2. Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit: Cetacean Health Monitoring
Funded 3 intern stipends for 1 quarter
Total Funding: $1,125
3. Coal Oil Point Reserve conservation, education, and restoration programs: Winter 2015/Spring 2015
Including 28 internships
Total Funding: $15,000
4. Kids In Nature Peer-to-Peer Environmental Education Program
Including Funding for 6 student intern stipends
Total Funding: $2,634.00
5. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration: UCSB Campus Lagoon Restoration Efforts
Funded for 2 student workers
Total funded: $4,600
6. CCBER: Restoration Intern Training Program
Fund six student interns
Total Funding: $4,500
7. Research Project: Physiological drivers of toxicity in the harmful diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia in response to silicon and iron limitations.
Including Funding for 1 intern
Total Funded: $5,550
8. Watershed Restoration Internship
Funded 2 interns
Total Funded: $3,200
9. Coronado Butterfly Preserve Advisory Committee: Coronado Butterfly Preserve Revitalization Project
Funded 1 intern
Total funded: $2,000
10. Earth Research Institute: Using microbial indicators to assess the biological integrity of storm water wetlands and bioswales
Total funded: $4,885.15
11. Santa Barbara Audubon Society: Dune Swale Pond Buffer Fire Recovery Project
Funded 4 interns
Total funded: $3,550
12. The Environmental Defense Center (EDC): Mobilizing the Local Community to Protect Ellwood Mesa from Oil Processing
Funded 1 intern
Total Funded: $1000.00
13. Gray Whales Count
Funded 10 interns
Total Funded: $3,800
14. Marine Science Institute: Assessing the potential for spread of perennial rhizomes in saline
Total Funded: $1,300
15. Sama Group: Ecological and Economic Feasibility Study for a Sustainable Coastal Development at Devereux
Funded 4 interns
Total Funded: $1,500
16. Goleta Slough Management Committee (GSMC): Goleta Slough Ecosystem Seal Level Rise and Management Plan Outreach Program
Funded 1 undergraduate intern with the stipulation that they have previous experience in website design.
Total Funded: $375
17. Marine Science Institute (MSI): MobileREEF Program, Intern Training and Teacher Professional Development
Funded 1 Intern coordinator
Funded 2 aquarist interns
Funded 4 REEF interns
Funded 1 MobileREEF intern
Funded 1 O2C Curriculum development intern
Funded Mobile reef rental
Total Funded: $15,160.00
18. Bioacoustics of UCSB/ Sounds of Campus Wildlife
Funded 2 interns
Funded for 2 audio recorders
Funded for microphone
Funded for IT support
Funded for website storage/use
Total Funded: $2,150
19. LiMPETS (Long-Term Monitoring Program of Experiential Training for Students)
Funded transportation to schools
Funded transportation for two buses from SB to UCSB
Funded student stipend
Funded personal transportation
Total funded: $5,500
20. CCBER: West Storke Wetland Restoration Enhancement
Funded 2 student workers
Total funded: $4,600
21. Sensor deployments in kelp forests – measuring carbon dioxide and oxygen levels to assess the impacts of a changing ocean
Funded boat OPS for fish egg collection
Funded boat OPS for sensor deployment
Funded tank recharges
Total funded: $1,414
22. Baited Remote Underwater Video for Monitoring and Citizen Science in the Santa Barbara Channel
Funded UCSB Boat Time
Funded tank fills and truck fuel
Funded supplies to build BRUV
Funded undergrad
Total Funded: $4,260
23. Coal Oil Point Coastal Live Oak Tree Plantings & individual research projects
Funded 250 five-gallon gopher baskets
Funded 2 dump trucks of compost
Total funded: $2,019.6
24. Evaluating ecological function of urbanized sandy beach ecosystems
Funded 2 student stipends for two quarters
Funded for travel to sites
Funded for supplies
Funded for poster printing
Total funded: $1,980
25. Effect of Compost Application Rate on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling: Biogeochemical Mechanisms and Greenhouse Gas Policy Implications
Funded 24 undergraduate assistants
Funded for Supplies Inorganic
Funded for supplies for GC Sample Analysis
Funded for supplies for CN Sample Analysis
Funded for CN and Lachat Sample Analysis Costs
Funded Incubation Experiment Materials
Total funded: $4,319.23
26. Detecting African Clawed Frogs and Native Amphibians through Environmental DNA
Funded everything in full with an increase to the student undergraduate stipend
Funded DNA extraction supplies: DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit
Funded DNA sample collection supplies: 1L Nalgenes, filters, vacuum pump, vials, bleach, ethanol, gloves
Funded PCR supplies: Primers, BSA, dNTP, & PCR master mix
Funded DNA sequencing
Funded undergraduate stipend
Total funded: $2,882.44
27. Enhancing Visitor Experience along the Gaviota Coast Campaign
Funded for printing of 5000 Gaviota Coast Maps
Total funded: $4,200
Minor Funding
28. CoastSocial: An Interactive Coastal Mapping and Education Application
Funded 4 students
Funded for publicizing and marketing materials
Total funded: $674.00
29. Coupling Interactions of pC02 and trace metals on Pseudo-nitzschia in the Santa Barbara Channel
Funded for Domoic Acid Detection – ELISA Kit
Funded for High-density polyethylene opaque bottles
Total funded: $700
30. Fairview Gardens Farm Education Internship
Funded two student stipends
Total funded: $750.00
31. The Origin of Hybrid Phragmities australis Haplotypes
Funded for 2 interns over one quarter
Total Funded: $750.00
WINTER 2015
1. Goleta Valley Agricultural Land Protection Program
-Included funding for intern’s stipend for 75 hours
-Total funding: $5,875
2. Ecological and Economic Feasibility Study for Sustainable Coastal Development at Devereux
-Included funding for 4 undergraduate interns and 2 graduate inters for 2 quarters
-Total funding: $7,522
3. Isla Vista Trash Cans
-Total Funding: $3,180
4. Wilderness, Wildlife, and Watersheds
-Included funding of 2 undergraduate interns for 2 quarters
-Total funding: $3,440.88
5. Goleta Valley Watershed Chaparral Protection Program
-Included funding for intern stipend for 100 hours
– Total funding: $9,520
6. Adopt-A-Block No Butts Project
-Total funding: $185.33
7. Fairview Gardens Spring Farm Education Internships
-Included funding for 2 interns for 9 week internship
-Total funding: $950
8. Using Citizen Scientists to Assess Population and Behavior of the Severely Overfished Giant Sea Bass (sterolepis gigas) in Southern California
-Included funding for 2 student workers for 24 weeks
-Total funding: $7,924
9. GreenScreen Environmental Media Program
– Included funding for intern for 5 weeks
-Total funding: $3,050
SPRING 2015
1. Coal Oil Point Reserve: Internships and additional funding for conservation, education, and restoration programs: Summer 2015/Fall 2015
-Included funding for 14 internships for the Snow Plover Program and 11 internships for the Restoration Program
Coal Oil Point Reserve
Total funding: $10,250
2. Rethink the Drink
Community Environmental Council
Total funding: $3,880
3. Adopt-A-Block
-Included funding for 2 student interns
Isla Vista Recreation and Park District
Total funding: $4,586
4. MPA Watch Internship
-Included funding for 4 student interns
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
Total funding: $2,900
5. Dune Swale Pond Buffer Fire Recovery Project
-Included funding for 6 undergraduate and 2 graduate student interns
Santa Barbara Audubon Society
Total funding: $3,304
6. Develop a Master Plan for a Sustainable Living Research Village at Devereux
-Included funding for 4 graduate student interns for 2 quarters
Sama Group
Total funding: $7,333
7. Reef Check California
-Included funding for 1 student intern
Reef Check Foundation
Total funding: $13,000
8. Kids in Nature Peer-to-Peer Environmental Education Program
-Included funding for 10 student interns
CCBER
Total funding: $19,670
9. Balancing the needs of whales, humans, and ships in the Santa Barbara Channel
-Included funding for 1 student intern stipend
EDC
Total funding: $11,300
10. Fostering a Lifelong Fascination with Nature
NatureTrack Foundation
Total funding: $12,500
11. Restoration Intern Training Program Summer & Fall 2015
-Included funding for 6 student interns
CCBER
Total funding: $4,500
12. Technical Support Grant
CCBER
Total funding: $5,500
13. Local Genotype Education Program
-Included funding for 1 student intern
CCBER
Total funding: $6,825
14. Oceans to Classrooms: REEF Internships
-Included funding for 4 student interns
MSI
Total funding: $10,180
15.Watershed Restoration Internship
-Included funding for 2 student interns for 2 quarters
SCHR
Total funding: $3,865
16. Baited Remote Underwater Video for Monitoring and Citizen Science in California
-Included funding for 2 undergraduate interns
MSI
Total funding: $5,950
17 . Paid Internships: Community Seafood Liaisons
-Included funding for 2 student stipends
Community Seafood
Total funding: $900
18. Fairview Gardens Summer Farm Education Internships
-Included funding for 2 student internships
Fairview Gardens, Center for Urban Agriculture
Total funding: $950
19. Bioacoustics of UCSB/Sounds of Campus Wildlife
-Included funding for 1 student stipend
CCBER
Total funding: $1,020
Total Spring Funding: $128,413