Devon Baker-Berry has won a 2025 Undergraduate Research in Science & Technology (URST) Award. The URST Award program provides funding and support for undergraduate research in science and technology. The award supports research costs, travel, and can also include a stipend. Congratulations Devon!
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Aliyah Presents at Whalefest Monterey
Aliya Khan presented her talk “Blue Carbon Sequestration: Nature-based Solutions to Combat Climate Change” at Whalefest Monterey in April, 2025. You can watch her talk here: Great work Aliya!
Leah & Zoe Awarded Daniel Briggs Memorial Scholarships
Leah Van Dyke and Zoe Beaver have been awarded Daniel Briggs Memorial Award Scholarships. The Daniel Briggs Memorial Award Scholarship supports students and their sponsoring faculty annually as part of UCSC’s Keeley Coastal Scholar program and uses the same criteria to select recipients. It provides financial assistance to underrepresented students from California with an unmet Read More…
CCCR Video Highlight
The Paytan Lab Research team has been highlighted on the UCSC CCCR Youtube Channel in this video: “Carbon Dynamics in Coastal Wetlands: Understanding Controlling Processes to Assess Wetlands Nature-Based Climate Mitigation Potential, led by Adina Paytan and the Paytan Lab at UCSC
Adina Paytan Awarded ASLO Edmondson Distinguished Service Award
Adina Paytan has been awarded the Tommy and Yvette Edmondson Distinguished Service Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) for her international research leadership. The award recognizes those advancing international research collaborations for early-career scientists through the ASLO Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange (LOREX) program. Read more HERE
Leah Awarded CCCR Grad Fellowship
Leah Van Dyke has received Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) Grad Fellowship funding. The Center supports projects that bring together researchers and practitioners to build innovative climate solutions. Leah’s project “Microbial Communities Driving Carbon Sequestration in Coastal Estuarine Wetlands” looks at the role of Microbial Communities in carbon cycling through wetland soils and the Read More…
🎁Lab White Elephant Party🎁
The Paytan Lab celebrated the recent holidays with a White Elephant party! Thank you Madio for hosting!
Aliya Receives EPS Grad Student Award
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!
Devon Receives Earth’s Environment & SURGES Awards
Devon Baker-Berry has been awarded Earth’s Environment and SURGES Award Funding for his thesis work researching the effects of using a biochar soil amendment in wetland restoration. Congratulations!
Paytan Lab Research in Carbon Pulse Feature
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