INTRODUCTION AND MISSION
As in past years, Coastal Fund published its own annual report in both print and online versions. In fact, all of their reports can be found by clicking here. What follows is an overview of Coastal Fund, a list of all the significant projects they funded, and some great photos from the year’s events.
Coastal Fund Board of Directors and Staff 2016/17 Back row left to right: Stephen Fetterly, Daniel Charette, Delaney Archer, Linn Bumpers, and Tristen Thron. Front row left to right: Bella Marill, Annalise Di Santo, Sarah Siedschlag, Alejandra Posada, and Courtney Thomas
The AS Coastal Fund supports a variety of local environmental projects. Their mission as stated on their website is:
THE COASTAL FUND (CF) shall provide funds to preserve, protect, and enhance the terrestrial and marine habitats associated with the shoreline of the University of California, Santa Barbara through preservation, education, open access, research, and restoration.
The following five principles shall guide and govern the funding of projects by the Coastal Fund:
- PRESERVATION: Biodiversity and the ecological integrity of the shoreline are essential and irreplaceable. The CF is committed to preserving and enhancing these aspects of the shoreline.
- EDUCATION: Environmental education is vital to the future health and well being of the UCSB community. The CF seeks to develop and utilize educational materials and opportunities that are fun, factual, proactive, and informative.
- ACCESS: The right to safe open and low impact access to the shoreline must be maintained with respect to sensitive habitat. CF supports the balance of Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas (ESHA) and public access.
- RESEARCH: Projects that promote education through research are fundamental to our understanding of coastal resources and the natural processes and human influences that act upon them. CF encourages studies that further our understanding of the shoreline.
- RESTORATION: Acknowledging that past human activity has negatively affected the environment, CF understands that restoration of habitat is critical to maintain natural and healthy ecosystems.
A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE COASTAL FUND WEBSITE
In the spring of 1999, the Isla Vista Chapter of Surfrider utilized its unique position as a student organization to gather over 4,200 signatures in support of a “Shoreline Initiative” to be added to the UCSB campus general election. With the Environmental Affairs Board as a co-sponsor the groups promoted a proposal for students to contribute $3 per quarter of registration fees to support stewardship of the local coast. The “Shoreline Initiative” was passed with 75.9% of the vote, the widest margin of victory of any initiative on the ballot and created a fund that would be administered through Associated Students.
An all student committee was set up in the summer of 1999 to write and refine the mission statement, and bylaws that would govern the newly established “Shoreline Preservation Fund.” A seven-member student Board of Directors was established to equally represent the student interests and includes three undergraduate representatives, two graduate student representatives, and one representative each from the two founding organizations. One non-voting representative from the Associated Students Legislative Council also sits on the Board.
In the Fall of 2007 the Students’ Initiative, a campus wide effort to increase the services at UCSB and to ensure the development of new programs for the future, passed. The omnibus initiative included increasing support for multiple student departments on campus including Coastal Fund, student funding. The Shoreline Preservation Fund changed the name to the Coastal Fund soon afterward to better incorporate the representation of support for our Coastline.
PROJECTS FUNDED THIS PAST YEAR
Coastal Fund listed these projects on their website. Each project is rigorously evaluated by students. Almost all of them include funding for student interns to give UCSB students hands on training from planning to implementation of the projects funded.
Funded Projects Fall 2017
1. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Restoration Intern Training Program Winter and Spring 2017
Included funding for 6 interns.
Total funding: $4,500
2. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Coastal Biodiversity, Ecology and Restoration Research and Monitoring
Included funding for 3 interns.
Total funding: $8,612
3. Coal Oil Point Reserve: Internships and Additional Funding Support for Conservation, Education, and Restoration Programs for Winter and Spring 2017
Included funding for 30 interns.
Total funding: $13,884.40
4. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Short Film Project from Golfcourse to Wetlands: The Restoration of the Upper Arms of Devereux Slough
Total funding: $9,225
5. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Kids in Nature Peer-to-Peer Environmental Education Program
Included funding for 10 interns.
Total funding: $23,016
6. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Experiment for North Campus Open Space Restoration Project
Included funding for 3 interns.
Total funding: $3,500
7. UCSB Earth Science: Monitoring Coastal Change at UCSB: Using Remote Sensing to Create a Basemap for Researchers and the Public
Included funding for 4 interns.
Total funding: $6,710.88
8. UCSB Earth Research Institute: Sisters of the Blue
Total funding: $4,085.99
9. Environmental Defense Center: Fully Restoring our Coastal Environment from the Refugio Oil Spill
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $10,000
10. UCSB Earth Research Institute: Detection and Toxicity of Anthropogenic Releases of Nanoparticles into a Marine Environment
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $5,800
11. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Understanding Dissolved Oxygen and pH Level Variability in the Santa Barbara Channel
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $5,361.30
12. UCSB Environmental Studies: Enhancement and Restoration of Southern California Native Shrublands
Included funding for 4 interns.
Total funding: $3,384.10
13. Fairview Gardens: Farming and Farm Education Internships
Included funding for 6 interns.
Total funding: $2,850
14. Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA) & Sea Grant: SB HAB’s Monitoring Network and Research Centered on How Anthropogenic and Climatic Factors Affect the Persistence and Duration of Harmful Algal Blooms Within the Santa Barbara Channel
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $8,140.17
15. Surfrider Foundation – Santa Barbara: Gaviota Coast Legal Representation
Total funding: $2,015
16. Surfrider Foundation – Santa Barbara: Defending Goleta Beach from the Destructive Effects of Coastal Armoring
Included funding for 5 interns.
Total funding: $2,732
17. Your Children’s Trees at UCSB: Campus Native Tree Restoration
Included funding for 10 interns.
Total funding: $7,044
18. Santa Barbara Channelkeeper: Citizen Scientists for Tidepool Assemblage Research
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $891
19. UCSB Environmental Health & Safety: Equipment for Dive Safety Program
Total funding: $1,000
20. UCSB Environmental Health & Safety: Student Scholarship for the Dive & Boat Safety Program
Total funding: $500
Projects Funded Winter 2017
1. Coal Oil Point Reserve: Educational Exhibits for the COPR Nature Center
Total funding: $8,000
2. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Coastal Nutrient Dynamics
Total funding: $9,683.10
3. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Investigating the Capacity of Eelgrass to Buffer Ocean Acidification
Total funding: $6,078.30
4. Channel Islands Resotoration: Carpinteria Salt Marsh Limonium Survey
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $6,733.05
5. UCSB Department of Recreation: Beach Wheelchair–Campus Point
Total funding: $3,828.60
6. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Community Alliance for Surveying Topography
Included funding for 10 interns.
Total funding: $24,906
7. Community Environmental Council: Rethink the Drink
Total funding: $1,835
8. Fairview Gardens: Farming and Farm Education Internships
Included funding for 4 interns.
Total funding: $1,900
9. Los Padres Forest Watch: Wilderness, Wildlife, and Watershed Program
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $12,390
10. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration: Increasing GHG Reduction of the NCOS Wetland Restoration Project through the Application of Biochar Soil Amendment
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $7,150
11. Santa Barbara Audubon Society: Dune Swale Pond Buffer Fire Recovery Project
Included funding for 7 interns.
Total funding: $3,275
12. UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology: The Combined Effects of Hypoxia and Ocean Acidification on the Physiology of Phytoplankton
Included funding for 3 interns.
Total funding: $17,005.68
13. Santa Barbara Trails Council: Baron Ranch Trail Realignment Project
Total funding: $2,750
14. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration: Promotion and Outreach for the CCBER Restoration
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $750
15. UCSB Natural History Collections Club: Increasing the Accessibility of the Santa Cruz Island Natural History Collections
Total funding: $1,000
16. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration: Species Distribution Modeling of Coastal Santa Barbara Lichens
Included funding for 1 intern.
Total funding: $839
17. GIVE to Isla Vista!: GIVE Project
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $998.08
18. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Who’s in Trouble? – Accessing the Distribution and Host Tree Preference of a Newly Invasive Beetle Species
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $1,000
19. UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science: Material Effects of Lupinus nipomensis and Lupinus bicolor
Included funding for 2 interns.
Total funding: $847.50
TOTAL FUNDED WINTER QUARTER: $110,900
Funded Projects Spring Quarter 2017
1. Restoration Intern Training Program Summer & Fall 2017
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$2,250
Included funding for 6 interns
2. Kids in Nature Peer-to Peer Environmental Education Program
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$21,083
Included funding for 8 interns
3. Fostering a Lifelong Fascination with Nature
Organization: Nature Track
$9,375
4. Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media 2017
Organization: Carsey-Wolf Center
$4,034
5. Putting an End to the Phillips 66 Rail Spur Extension Project
Organization: Environmental Defense Center
$10,000
Included funding for 1 intern
6. Across the Channel: Investigating Diel Dynamics (ACIDD)
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$12,000
7. Supporting Students in Natural History Collections Research
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$1,500
Included funding for 4 interns
8. MPA Watch Internship Program
Organization: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
$4,421.84
Included funding for 2 interns
9. Research Mentoring Continuation
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$8,602
Included funding for 6 interns
10. UCSB campus native tree restoration and maintenance
Organization: Your Children’s Trees At UCSB
$7,607.52
Included funding for 10 interns
11. Internships and additional funding support for conservation, education, and restoration programs
Organization: Coal Oil Point Reserve
$11,573.12
Included funding for 27 interns
12. Competition Between Chaparral Obligate Seeder Shrubs and Invasive Grasses
Organization: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
$3,248.66
Included funding for 1 intern
13. Consumer-mediated nutrient cycling in kelp forests: identifying how consumer hotspots drive primary production in the Santa Barbara Channel
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$9,362.40
Included funding for 3 interns
14. Educational Signage
Organization: Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District
$1,813.89
15. Adopt a Block Program
Organization: Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District
$2,258
Included funding for 2 interns
16. Defending Goleta Beach from the Destructive Effects of Coastal Armoring
Organization: Surfrider Santa Barbara Chapter
$7,454
Included funding for 1 intern
17. The Golden Forest
Organization: REEF
$900
18. Short Film Project From Golf Course to Wetlands; the Restoration of the Upper Arms of the Devereaux Slough
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration
$1,000
19. Intraspecific diversity in dimethylsulphoniopropionate-lyase activity in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi found within the Santa Barbara Channel
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$996.98
20. Reef Check California
organization : Reef Check Foundation
$1,000
Included funding for 1 intern
21. Goleta Slough Monitoring Program
Organization: Santa Barbara Audubon Society
$962.50
22. Plumes and Blooms NASA Oceanographic Cruise
Organization: Marine Science Institute
$975
TOTAL FUNDED SPRING QUARTER: $125,445.63
COASTAL SERVICE PROGRAM
The Coastal Service Program gives student organizations the opportunity to raise money while maintaining their local community! Students can participate in a beach or street cleanup for $100 or can work with a local environmental organization in a restoration project for $200. All that the Coastal Fund asks for is a brief summary of participants’ experience and pictures to document the project. Organizations can participate in one restoration project or beach/street cleanup per quarter. It’s an easy and fun way to fundraise, while contributing to the enhancement of the UCSB campus community!
The Coastal Service Program is also a resource for student groups looking to complete community service hours!
GROUPS AND PROJECTS FOR THIS YEAR FROM THE COASTAL FUND FACEBOOK SITE
1. Maria Elizabeth Miramontes and her org, Pilipino Culture Night, doing a restoration project with Growing Solutions!
2. Looks like UCSB Phi Sigma Rho had a great time at their restoration project! They also earned $200 for their org!
3. Thank you UCSB Women’s Rugby for cleaning our beaches and earning $100 for your team!
4. Thank you Global Medical Brigades for participating in a restoration project with Growing Solutions! Hope you had a blast!
5. Thank you Delta Sigma Pi for your awesome help on this CCBER restoration project!
6. Latino Business Association rocked a restoration project this past weekend with Arroyo Hondo.
7. Big thanks to Naked Voices for keeping our beaches clean!
8. Thank you Hong Kong Student Association for your awesome restoration work this past weekend!
9. Los Curanderos UCSB doing big things for the environment!
10. Big thanks to Hermanas Unidas for cleaning up our IV Beaches this past weekend! Hermanas Unidas de UCSB.
11. Shout out to Phi Sigma Rho for collecting 20 lbs of trash this weekend! UCSB Phi Sigma Rho
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