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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<\/p><\/div>\n
The AS Coastal Fund supports a variety of local environmental projects. Their mission as stated on their website is:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The following five principles shall guide and govern the funding of projects by the Coastal Fund:<\/p>\n
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- 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.<\/li>\n
- 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.<\/li>\n
- 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.<\/li>\n
- 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.<\/li>\n
- 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE COASTAL FUND WEBSITE<\/h2>\n
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 \u201cShoreline Initiative\u201d 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 \u201cShoreline Initiative\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cShoreline Preservation Fund.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
In the Fall of 2007 the Students\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
PROJECTS FUNDED THIS PAST YEAR<\/h2>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Funded Projects Fall 2017<\/h3>\n
1. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Restoration Intern Training Program Winter and Spring 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for\u00a06 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$4,500<\/strong><\/p>\n
2. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Coastal Biodiversity, Ecology and Restoration Research and Monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for\u00a03 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$8,612<\/strong><\/p>\n
3. Coal Oil Point Reserve: Internships and Additional Funding Support for Conservation, Education, and Restoration Programs for Winter and Spring 2017 <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for\u00a030 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$13,884.40<\/strong><\/p>\n
4. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Short Film Project from Golfcourse to Wetlands: The Restoration of the Upper Arms of Devereux Slough <\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$9,225<\/strong><\/p>\n
5. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Kids in Nature Peer-to-Peer Environmental Education Program <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for\u00a010 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$23,016<\/strong><\/p>\n
6. Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration: Experiment for North Campus Open Space Restoration Project <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 3 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$3,500<\/strong><\/p>\n
7. UCSB Earth Science: Monitoring Coastal Change at UCSB: Using Remote Sensing to Create a Basemap for Researchers and the Public <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 4 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$6,710.88<\/strong><\/p>\n
8. UCSB Earth Research Institute: Sisters of the Blue <\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$4,085.99<\/strong><\/p>\n
9. Environmental Defense Center: Fully Restoring our Coastal Environment from the Refugio Oil Spill <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$10,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
10. UCSB Earth Research Institute: Detection and Toxicity of Anthropogenic Releases of Nanoparticles into a Marine Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$5,800<\/strong><\/p>\n
11. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Understanding Dissolved Oxygen and pH Level Variability in the Santa Barbara Channel <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$5,361.30<\/strong><\/p>\n
12. UCSB Environmental Studies: Enhancement and Restoration of Southern California Native Shrublands <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 4 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$3,384.10<\/strong><\/p>\n
13. Fairview Gardens: Farming and Farm Education Internships <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 6 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$2,850<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>14. Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA) & Sea Grant: SB HAB\u2019s 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<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$8,140.17<\/strong><\/p>\n
15. Surfrider Foundation \u2013 Santa Barbara: Gaviota Coast Legal Representation<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$2,015<\/strong><\/p>\n
16. Surfrider Foundation \u2013 Santa Barbara: Defending Goleta Beach from the Destructive Effects of Coastal Armoring <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 5 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$2,732<\/strong><\/p>\n
17. Your Children\u2019s Trees at UCSB: Campus Native Tree Restoration<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 10 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$7,044<\/strong><\/p>\n
18.\u00a0Santa Barbara Channelkeeper: Citizen Scientists for Tidepool Assemblage Research <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$891<\/strong><\/p>\n
19. UCSB Environmental Health & Safety: Equipment for Dive Safety Program<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
20.\u00a0UCSB Environmental Health & Safety:\u00a0Student Scholarship for the Dive & Boat Safety Program<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding: $500<\/strong><\/p>\n
Projects Funded Winter 2017<\/h3>\n
1. <\/strong>Coal Oil Point Reserve: Educational Exhibits for the COPR Nature Center<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding: $8,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
2. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Coastal Nutrient Dynamics<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding: $9,683.10<\/strong><\/p>\n
3. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Investigating the Capacity of Eelgrass to Buffer Ocean Acidification <\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$6,078.30<\/strong><\/p>\n
4. Channel Islands Resotoration: Carpinteria Salt Marsh Limonium Survey <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$6,733.05 <\/strong><\/p>\n
5. UCSB Department of Recreation: Beach Wheelchair\u2013Campus Point<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$3,828.60<\/strong><\/p>\n
6. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Community Alliance for Surveying Topography<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 10 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$24,906<\/strong><\/p>\n
7. Community Environmental Council: Rethink the Drink<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$1,835<\/strong><\/p>\n
8. Fairview Gardens: Farming and Farm Education Internships<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 4 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$1,900<\/strong><\/p>\n
9. Los Padres Forest Watch: Wilderness, Wildlife, and Watershed Program <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$12,390<\/strong><\/p>\n
10.\u00a0Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration: Increasing GHG Reduction of the NCOS Wetland Restoration Project through the Application of Biochar Soil Amendment <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$7,150<\/strong><\/p>\n
11. <\/strong>Santa Barbara Audubon Society:<\/strong>\u00a0Dune Swale Pond Buffer Fire Recovery Project <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 7 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$3,275<\/strong><\/p>\n
12. UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology:\u00a0The Combined Effects of Hypoxia and Ocean Acidification on the Physiology of Phytoplankton<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 3 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$17,005.68<\/strong><\/p>\n
13. Santa Barbara Trails Council: Baron Ranch Trail Realignment Project<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$2,750<\/strong><\/p>\n
14. Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration: Promotion and Outreach for the CCBER Restoration <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$750<\/strong><\/p>\n
15. UCSB Natural History Collections Club:\u00a0Increasing the Accessibility of the Santa Cruz Island Natural History Collections<\/strong><\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
16.<\/strong> Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration:\u00a0<\/strong>Species Distribution Modeling of Coastal Santa Barbara Lichens <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$839<\/strong><\/p>\n
17.<\/strong> GIVE to Isla Vista!:<\/strong>\u00a0GIVE Project <\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$998.08<\/strong><\/p>\n
18. UCSB Marine Science Institute: Who\u2019s in Trouble? \u2013 Accessing the Distribution and Host Tree Preference of a Newly Invasive Beetle Species\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
19. UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science: Material Effects of Lupinus nipomensis<\/em> and Lupinus bicolor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns.<\/p>\n
Total funding:\u00a0$847.50<\/strong><\/p>\n
TOTAL FUNDED WINTER QUARTER: $110,900<\/strong><\/p>\n
Funded Projects Spring Quarter 2017<\/h3>\n
1. Restoration Intern Training Program Summer & Fall 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration<\/p>\n
$2,250<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 6 interns<\/p>\n
2. Kids in Nature Peer-to Peer Environmental Education Program<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration<\/p>\n
$21,083<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 8 interns<\/p>\n
3. Fostering a Lifelong Fascination with Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Nature Track<\/p>\n
$9,375<\/strong><\/p>\n
4. Blue Horizons Summer Program for Environmental Media 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Carsey-Wolf Center<\/p>\n
$4,034<\/strong><\/p>\n
5. Putting an End to the Phillips 66 Rail Spur Extension Project<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Environmental Defense Center<\/p>\n
$10,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern<\/p>\n
6. Across the Channel: Investigating Diel Dynamics (ACIDD)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Marine Science Institute<\/p>\n
$12,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
7. Supporting Students in Natural History Collections Research<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration<\/p>\n
$1,500<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 4 interns<\/p>\n
8. MPA Watch Internship Program<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper<\/p>\n
$4,421.84<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns<\/p>\n
9. Research Mentoring Continuation<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: \u00a0Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration<\/p>\n
$8,602<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 6 interns<\/p>\n
10. UCSB campus native tree restoration and maintenance<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Your Children\u2019s Trees At UCSB<\/p>\n
$7,607.52<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 10 interns<\/p>\n
11. Internships and additional funding support for conservation, education, and restoration programs<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Coal Oil Point Reserve<\/p>\n
$11,573.12<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 27 interns<\/p>\n
12. Competition Between Chaparral Obligate Seeder Shrubs and Invasive Grasses<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology<\/p>\n
$3,248.66<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern<\/p>\n
13. Consumer-mediated nutrient cycling in kelp forests: identifying how consumer hotspots drive primary production in the Santa Barbara Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Marine Science Institute<\/p>\n
$9,362.40<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 3 interns<\/p>\n
14. Educational Signage<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District<\/p>\n
$1,813.89<\/strong><\/p>\n
15. Adopt a Block Program<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District<\/p>\n
$2,258<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 2 interns<\/p>\n
16. Defending Goleta Beach from the Destructive Effects of Coastal Armoring<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Surfrider Santa Barbara Chapter<\/p>\n
$7,454<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern<\/p>\n
17. The Golden Forest<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: REEF<\/p>\n
$900<\/strong><\/p>\n
18. Short Film Project From Golf Course to Wetlands; the Restoration of the Upper Arms of the Devereaux Slough<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Cheadle Center for Biological and Ecological Restoration<\/p>\n
$1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
19. Intraspecific diversity in dimethylsulphoniopropionate-lyase activity in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi found within the Santa Barbara Channel<\/strong><\/p>\n
Organization: Marine Science Institute<\/p>\n
$996.98<\/strong><\/p>\n
20. Reef Check California<\/strong><\/p>\n
organization : Reef Check Foundation<\/p>\n
$1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n
Included funding for 1 intern<\/p>\n