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.

Madio has been awarded a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship! Cota-Robles Fellowships are merit based fellowships awarded on a competitive basis to first-year graduate students who have overcome significant social or educational obstacles to achieve a college education, and whose backgrounds equip them to contribute to intellectual diversity among the graduate student population. Congratulations Madio!

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/  

Leah Van Dyke has been selected to receive the Eli Silver Spring 2024 Earth & Planetary Sciences Graduate Student Award from the Earth’s Environment Fund at UCSC. Congratulations Leah!

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…