The Paytan Lab celebrated the recent holidays with a White Elephant party! Thank you Madio for hosting!

Aliya Khan has been selected to receive a Fall 2024 Earth & Planetary Sciences Graduate Student Award from the Earth’s Environment Fund at UCSC. Congratulations Aliya!

Paytan Lab Wetland Research has been highlighted in the January Carbon Pulse Feature: Protecting wetlands through carbon projects help preserve key global emissions sink.  Read more here. FEATURE: Protecting wetlands through carbon projects helps preserve key global emissions sink

The Elkhorn Slough’s Hester Marsh is the 500th site to add BASE data to the AmeriFlux Network. Our lab’s ongoing research and data collection efforts, at Hester Marsh, have been highlighted in this Blog article. Photo of Hester Marsh from Ameriflux Blog Article: https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/feature-site-us-ekh-elkhorn-slough-hester-marsh-the-500th-site-with-base-data/

Ongoing research in the Elkhorn Slough, and interviews with members of the Paytan Lab have been published in the highlight titled ” Stuck in the muck: Scientists study carbon trapped by Elkhorn Slough” on Mercury New’s website. Read the article here. Photo from the Mercury News article showing members of the Paytan Lab sampling and Read More…

Happy Halloween from the Paytan Lab! ♠️♥️♣️♦️

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/