Awards

This continued funding for estuarine Marine Protected Area (MPA) monitoring will allow for further refinement of pilot protocols and support critically important long-term monitoring of an understudied suite of MPAs in California's Network. Data collected during the 2023 season will inform the development of the MPA Monitoring Action Plan and provide insight into climate impacts and resiliency of the MPA Network to climactic perturbations within estuarine systems.

This continued funding for estuarine Marine Protected Area (MPA) monitoring will allow for further refinement of pilot protocols and support critically important long-term monitoring of an understudied suite of MPAs in California's Network. Data collected during the 2023 season will inform the development of the MPA Monitoring Action Plan and provide insight into climate impacts and resiliency of the MPA Network to climactic perturbations within estuarine systems.

This project will be conducted by Sonoma State University to support restoration of kelp forests by the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Building on our decades of experience in kelp forest ecology, aquaculture and restoration with our partners at Moss Landing Marine Labs, we will help GFNMS to build scientific and restoration capacity for kelp forests in the northern California region.

This project will be conducted by Sonoma State University to support restoration of kelp forests by the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Specifically, we will build on existing grants to develop a kelp culturing program for the GFNMS, this award will allow us to add kelp restoration via transplanting of our laboratory-reared kelp to field sites within the Sanctuary targeted for restoration.

This project sets the stage to establish the Galbreath Wildlands Preserve as a prescribed burn demonstration site for fuel reduction, ecological and cultural objectives. Through on-going public events, the site will give community members first-hand experience comparing these approaches, and gaining the knowledge and skills needed by the community to re-introduce prescribed fire as a land management tool in southern Mendocino County.

This project partners six organizations to reduce wildfire risk to people and nature by conducting ecologically informed mechanical fuels management on ~2,000 acres at 12 public and protected sites in High or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones across Sonoma County and southern Mendocino County. Ecologically informed fuels removal, prescribed grazing, and prescribed fire will be conducted on approx. 500 ac and 15 miles of road and trail. All sites provide significant public benefits including programs for under-served or disadvantaged communities.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will be issued task orders for future County of Marin projects including monitoring, pedestrian surveys, GPR surveys, drone 3d modeling, construction monitoring, Cal NAGPRA consultation and anything else requested by County of Marin.

This project extends Teresa Nguyen's prior work on Latinx families by disentangling the effects of race and income on intimate relationship processes. To do so, Teresa will survey Latinx families and a comparison sample of White and Asian families who vary in socioeconomic status.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will perform curation services for the Humboldt Harbor Lighthouse.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will implement the Archaeological Monitoring for Phase 2 of a creek restoration project within Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), Muir Woods National Monument (MUWO) in late summer/fall 2023 to enhance habitat for the federally-listed endangered Coho salmon, and undertake other steps as needed/required.