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INTRODUCTION<\/h2>\n

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The Coastal Fund<\/a> (CF)\u00a0fund is a student initiative dedicated to the conservation of the UCSB coastline. Our student body recognizes that the coast is at the heart of our campus\u2019 culture and character and must be protected. In response, each undergraduate student contributes\u00a0$5.75 per quarter, and each graduate student $3.00 per quarter,\u00a0into a fund that provides\u00a0over $350,000 each year to protect and enhance our coastline. Since Fall of 1999, the Fund has allocated over $3 million\u00a0to countless\u00a0local projects or programs.The Coastal Fund accepts proposals during\u00a0three funding cycles throughout the year (one per academic quarter) and critically reviews them for consistency to the CF Mission Statement vision and principals, relevance to the student community, adherence to UCSB and Regental policy and benefit to the UCSB shoreline.\u00a0Applicants present their proposals at regular meetings which gives Board Members opportunities to ask specific questions to each applicant and learn about the project in detail. The proposals are funded entirely, \u00a0modified as needed, or denied.<\/p>\n

The Fund creates an excellent opportunity for students and the UCSB and Santa Barbara communities to become actively involved in the protection of their local coastal environment. Funds may be requested for projects\u00a0that advance the Coastal Fund\u2019s mission such as undergraduate and graduate marine research, community and campus programs, or coastal education.<\/p>\n

To further involve students the Coastal Fund has established the Coastal Service Program<\/a>, which offers student organizations an opportunity to raise funds by participating in a local beach clean up or native habitat restoration. The program enables all student organizations to gain much needed funding for their programs while contributing to keep our community clean and healthy.<\/p>\n

The Coastal Fund is a shining example of a grassroots community-based effort to care for the coast and can be used as a model for other campuses. Funds are generated and administered by the students, who ultimately will be one of the largest beneficiaries of a healthy coast.<\/p>\n

FUNDED PROJECTS<\/h2>\n

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Fall Quarter 2019<\/h3>\n

1. NCOS Impact Video and Long Film Filming\/Post Production, CCBER<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 6 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$13,100<\/strong><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Restoring Fuel Breaks to Promote Native Ecosystem Services, EEMB<\/b><\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$4,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. MPA Watch Internship Program, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper<\/b><\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$4,023.38<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Internships and Additional Funding Support for Conservation, Education and Restoration Programs for Winter and Spring 2019, COPR<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 17 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$11,538.40<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Native Tree Restoration, Maintenance and Education, Your Children\u2019s Trees at UCSB<\/b><\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 7 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$6,375<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. A New Horizon-Oil Platform Decommissioning, EDC<\/b><\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$10,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

7. IV Foam Free for the Sea Pilot, Community Environmental Council<\/b><\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$2,200<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Turning Up the Heat: Climate Science in Action, MSI & EEMB<\/b><\/strong>
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$13,279.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

9. Kids in Nature Peer-to-Peer Environmental Education Program, CCBER<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 5 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$17,889<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. Wildfire and mudflow impacts on marine phytoplankton community composition in the Santa Barbara Channel, MSI<\/b>
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$5,600<\/strong><\/p>\n

11. Assessing giant kelp\u2019s microbial community structure under different environmental conditions and host quality, EEMB<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$7,500<\/strong><\/p>\n

12. Carpinteria Salt Marsh Habitat Restoration-Sand Point Road, Channel Islands Restoration<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 4 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$2,974<\/strong><\/p>\n

13. Inventory of the Seaweeds of Santa Rosa Island, Santa Barbara County, California, CCBER<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$13,260.70<\/strong><\/p>\n

14. Coastal Ecology Literacy for Early Childhood Education and Pre-K Nature Based Education at North Campus Open Space, CCBER<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 3 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$7,877<\/strong><\/p>\n

15. UCSB Campus Lagoon Restoration 2019-20, CCBER<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$16,172<\/strong><\/p>\n

16. Impact of Natural Disasters on the Native Olympia Oyster in the Santa Barbara Watershed, Bren School<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$16,470<\/strong><\/p>\n

17. Identifying native seeds in the seed bank through DNA and RNA extractions, EEMB<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$4,871.06<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. A Sweet Deal: understanding plant-pollinator interactions in coastal ecosystems around the UCSB campus through the lens of nectar equality, CCBER<\/b>
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$828.96<\/strong><\/p>\n

19. Investigating the dynamics of amphibian chytridiomycosis: Linking variation in the amphibian mucosae and immunogenetics with disease risk and long-term dynamics of amphibian populations<\/b>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$900<\/strong><\/p>\n

20. Effects of symbiotic fungi on drought tolerance of Quercus Agrifolia, EEMB<\/b>
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$735<\/strong><\/p>\n

21. Tracking a marine heatwave, NEP19, along the Santa Barbara Coast, MSI<\/b>
\nTotal funding:\u00a0$973<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winter Quarter 2020<\/h3>\n

1.\u00a0Kelp forest and rocky reef monitoring student internships, MSI
\n<\/strong>Included funding for\u00a02 interns.
\n<\/span>Total Funding: $8,660.40<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Restoring Fuel Breaks to Promote Native Ecosystem Services, EEMB<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 4 interns.
\nTotal Funding: $4,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Preventing ExxonMobil\u2019s Gaviota Oil Trucking, EDC<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funding: $8,070<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Photographic mark and recapture of giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas) around Anacapa Island, utilizing remote observation techniques, MSI<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funding: $12,584<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Coastal Biodiversity and Restoration Research and Monitoring Internships, CCBER<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funding: $6,100<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Surveys of the Leopard Shark aggregation of Coal Oil Point (Project Renewal), MSI<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal Funding: $8,450<\/strong><\/p>\n

7. Fate of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Wastewater Treatment Plants, Bren
\n<\/strong>Included funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funding: $9,852.76<\/strong><\/p>\n

8. Watershed Resource Center Internship Program, Explore Ecology<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funded: $4,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

9. Soil Amendments in Coastal Grassland Restoration for Carbon Sequestration, Earth Research Institute
\n<\/strong>Included funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funded: $7,609.39<\/strong><\/p>\n

10. Measuring Cliff Base Erosion in Isla Vista, UCSB Earth Science Department<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 3 interns.
\nTotal funded: $6,075.63<\/strong><\/p>\n

11. Reefcheck Califorina, Reef Check Foundation
\n<\/strong>Included funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funded: $13,620<\/strong><\/p>\n

12. Wildlife Rehabilitation and Outreach, Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 13 interns.
\nTotal funded: $10,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

13. Assessing connectivity and genetic diversity of sandy beach indicator species on mainland and Channel Island beaches, MSI<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns
\nTotal funded: $7,540<\/strong><\/p>\n

14. Microfiber Mitigation, UCSB Environmental Studies<\/strong>
\nTotal funded: $3,963<\/strong><\/p>\n

15. Greenhouse Gas Fluxes of an Intermittently Tidal Salt Marsh, Earth Research Institute<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Included funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funded: $9,028.32<\/strong><\/p>\n

16. A multivariate spatial approach to identifying unprecedented shifts in phytoplankton\u00a0functional groups and other ecologically important taxa in the Santa Barbara Channel during regional SST\u00a0anomalies and perturbations during localized natural disasters., MSI<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 7 interns.
\nTotal funded: $14,516.22<\/strong><\/p>\n

17. UCSB Nearshore Wave Forecasting System, Earth Research Institute<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Included funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funded: $1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. Using Functional Traits to Create Invasion Resistant Grasslands, EEMB<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funded: $1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

19. Glitter-Free Oceans, Environmental Studies Program<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funded: $555<\/strong><\/p>\n

20. Seasonal and Tidal Plasticity of Salt Marsh Fish in the Carpinteria Salt Marsh, EEMB<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 1 intern.
\nTotal funded: $1,000<\/strong><\/p>\n

21. Ontogenetic shifts in the parasite community of Girella nigricans, EEMB<\/strong>
\nIncluded funding for 2 interns.
\nTotal funded: $922.32<\/strong><\/p>\n

22. Coastal Craze, UCSB Department of Art<\/strong>
\nTotal funded: $209.77<\/strong><\/p>\n

SPRING QUARTER<\/h2>\n
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Coastal Fund Board on Zoom<\/p><\/div>\n

Due to the coronavirus Coastal Fund issued this statement for spring quarter:<\/p>\n

To our friends and partners,<\/p>\n

The Coastal Fund Board recognizes that current national and global conditions are highly concerning and changing each day, and that it may be some time before we return to a level of normalcy. UCSB classes as well as the majority of UCSB staff and faculty are operating remotely through spring quarter, and we are all trying to adapt and be as flexible as possible.<\/p>\n

Keeping that in mind, Coastal Fund is moving forward with its spring 2020 grant cycle with some changes. First, our deadlines will remain the same: April 10 for major grant applications, and May 15 for minor grant applications. All meetings and grant presentations will however be conducted via Zoom to maintain social distancing and to accommodate members who are not staying near campus this quarter. Because we will not be meeting in person, we encourage applicants to submit any additional supplemental material they feel might be helpful along with their applications; we will enable screen-sharing as needed during presentations for applicants who would like to present slides or other visuals during the meetings. Meetings will most likely still be held Tuesday evenings, but this is to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Further, both our Coastal Service Program and annual Coastal Fund Gala will be cancelled for spring quarter in order to keep our students and partners safe.<\/p>\n

We thank everyone for their efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and we eagerly anticipate the day when we can all reconvene in person.<\/p>\n

For questions, contact coastalfund(at)gmail(dot)com or sarahs(at)as.ucsb.edu.<\/p>\n

SCIENTIFIC DIVE SAFETY COURSE<\/h2>\n
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Photo: Eduardo Romero<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the programs that the Coastal Fund supports is the Scientific Dive Safety Course Program. This program is an opportunity for students to get certified in order to complete marine field research. The course provides an American Association of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) Scientific Diver certification, a NAUI Rescue and Enriched Air NITROX certification and a First Aid, CPR, AED and Oxygen safety certification.<\/p>\n

CCBER INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY COLLECTION INTERNS<\/h2>\n

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With the help of the Coastal Fund, the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration<\/a> (CCBER) has been able to recruit 16 interns to their Invertebrate Zoology Collection<\/a> team. CCBER interns aid in the curation and identification of local, coastal\u00a0insects, take photographs of insects for science communication and upload them onto their one-of-a-kind online database, as well as survey local areas for new invertebrate species. The database that these interns have contributed to has been used in over 58 publications since 2016 and is especially pertinent to Santa Barbara County because online access to our local invertebrate species is minimal.<\/p>\n

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GRANTEE PROFILES<\/h2>\n

TURNING UP THE HEAT: CLIMATE SCIENCE IN ACTION<\/h3>\n

Coastal Fund highlighted the work of one of its grantees on its Facebook site. It was able to fund a project entitled \u201cTurning Up the Heat: Climate Science in Action\u201d, a project headed by Xochitl Clare, who is a UCSB Marine Biology Ph.D. student in the Hofmann Lab. They talked with Xochitl about her personal insights into the project and the motivations behind her work, as well as why the work she does is so invaluable.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xochitl said, \u201cNever has it been more important to understand our coastline\u2014and for scientists to grow strong relationships with the public. Because climate change will influence global management of natural resources, it represents significant environmental and social challenges in our future. I [She is] determined to ensure individuals from a wide range of backgrounds are able to tackle these challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

MEASURING CLIFF BASE EROSION IN ISLA VISTA<\/h3>\n

The Coastal Fund was able to help fund three undergraduate research assistants for \u201cMeasuring Cliff Base Erosion in Isla Vista\u201d, a project run by Paul Alessio at the UCSB Earth Science Department. Undergraduate Student Research Coordinator, Kevin Raver, kindly gave some personal insights into the project. As an avid outdoorsman and Geology major, Kevin explained why this project is so imperative to the UCSB community, stating:
\n\u201cBeing that a huge part of the UCSB culture is the beach, and Del Playa is ‘where it all goes down’, and yet the cliffs so readily erode, it seemed almost urgent that we find out more about the environment that we find ourselves a part of. Additionally, with as much traffic as the beaches in Isla Vista see, it seemed imperative that we know more about the forces that affect them and how they change on short time scales, given that many of us are only even typically at UCSB for 2-4 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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COASTAL CRAZE<\/p>\n

One of Coastal Funds grantees, Avery DeSantis, had a solo art exhibition on the UCSB Glassbox Gallery page. This exhibition, which strives to provide an interdisciplinary view of marine conservation, can be seen at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/glassbox.arts.ucsb.edu\/coastal-craze-a-solo-art-ex\u2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n

and at Avery’s personal Coastal Crazy Gallery site:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/averydesantis.ucraft.site<\/a><\/p>\n

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GRANT WORKSHOPS<\/h2>\n

Each quarter Coastal Fund presented grant workshops to make sure applicants followed the proper procedure and optimized their chances of receiving funding.<\/p>\n

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COASTAL SERVICE PROGRAM<\/h2>\n

Coastal Fund once again supported student groups working to clean up and restore our local coastal areas. This work engages student and makes a real difference in preserving our coastal resources from year to year.<\/p>\n

Project Descriptions<\/h2>\n

Beach Cleanups<\/h3>\n

Compensation: $100 Volunteer time: 2 hours Location: Del Playa and beaches surrounding the UCSB campus Minimum # of volunteers per organization: 10 We provide you the supplies! All you and your organization need to do is collect trash in the designated area! The following are beaches that we maintain:<\/p>\n