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 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…

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

This weekend, many members of the lab helped out in a 24-hour sampling campaign in Elkhorn Slough! The coordinators (Aliya and Zoe) had this to say: “Special shout out to the morning crew who helped us set up for the day, work through kinks and initial growing pains; Adina for negotiating with the pick n Read More…

Representatives from the Global Once (Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions) visited UCSC and gave a great talk to members of the Paytan Lab! Find out more about the organization on their website.

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 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 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…