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Blue Innovation connects researchers, organizations, and community members dedicated to ocean and water sustainability, addressing urgent needs for scalable solutions. On Blue Innovation Day, October 6, 2024, at the UC Santa Cruz Seymour Marine Discovery Center, the Paytan Lab will present research on enhancing coastal sustainability through wetlands, their carbon sequestration capabilities, and innovative climate Read More…

Congratulations to Maddie Wood for being a 2025 Knauss Finalist! All eligible Sea Grant programs are represented by a diverse cohort of 88 early-career professionals who will spend the next year working alongside federal agencies or legislative offices in Washington, D.C., applying their academic expertise to critical marine, coastal and Great Lakes policy issues.

Jim Jacobs’ project “Assessing Coastal Flood Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise Enhanced by Extreme Events In Preferential Flow Pathways” has been featured in Solinist’s “On The Level” Blog. Read the Blog post, and learn more about his research here https://www.solinst.com/onthelevel-news/water-level-monitoring/water-level-datalogging/assessing-coastal-flood-vulnerability-to-sea-level-rise/

Igor Pessoa receives the Ocean Decade endorsement of his project “Developing A Conservation Plan for Maui’s Corals”. Congratulations! View the endorsement here https://oceandecade.org/actions/developing-a-conservation-plan-for-mauis-corals/  

Adina Paytan was recently featured on the 50th episode of the podcast “Let’s Talk Chemistry – a science podcast by ChemTalk”. Listen to the episode here!

Congratulations to Aliya, Leah, and Terra for each winning an NSF INTERN Award. The NSF’s INTERN program provides graduate students with experiential learning opportunities through research internships in non-academic settings. Since 2017, INTERN has offered supplemental funding to broaden research opportunities for graduate students. The program enables graduate students to acquire core professional competencies and Read More…

Jim Jacobs has been awarded the AIPG 2024 William Siok Graduate Scholarship.  The award was for $2.000 and the submission was a peer-reviewed essay related to professionalism in the next 25 years and the discipline of geology. The essay appeared as an article in AIPG’s The Professional Geologistjournal. The funds will be used to help offset field costs Read More…

Dr. Maddie Wood completed her PhD defense and graduated. She presented her her dissertation defense entitled: “Seawater strontium responses to short-timescale carbon cycle changes”. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Jim Jacobs for completing his Qualifying Exam, and advancing to candidacy! Whoohoo!