FISCAL YEAR 2020–2021 Holly A. Bowers and Ross P. Clark Evaluating Agricultural Management Practices Benefiting the Monterey Bay: Reducing Nutrient Loads and Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Events Environmental Protection Agency $213,931 Holly A. Bowers and Jason G. Smith Advancing Portable Detection Capabilities of Harmful Algal Bloom Species in California Waters University of Southern California $85,191 Dustin Carroll ECCO-Darwin Model Exploration of Physical and Biogeochemical Interactions in the Land-Sea Continuum Jet Propulsion Laboratory $113,812 Dustin Carroll Impacts of Changing Sea-Ice on Arctic Ocean Biology Jet Propulsion Laboratory $87,4820 Ross P. Clark Provide Archival, Analysis, and Publishing Services on Benthic Data Previously Collected for Multiple Project Creative Environmental Conservation $60,000 Ross P. Clark Restoring Coastal Dune Ecosystem Health and Resilience at Salinas River State Beach (SRSB Dunes-CDFW: 2020-01) Coastal Conservation & Research $150,000 Wesley A. Heim, Ross P. Clark and Marco A. Sigala SWRCB-SWAMP Agreement Number 20-006-270 California State Water Resources Control Board $469,300 Ross P. Clark Developing Riparian Management Goals through Validation of Assessment Tools Environmental Protection Agency $249,286 Ross P. Clark North Monterey County High School Habitat Enhancement Project Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County $3,162 Ross P. Clark A Collaborative Approach to Groundwater Sustainability in Southern Monterey Bay Watersheds California Department of Conservation $300,000.00 Ross P. Clark Managing Water Resources for Multiple Benefits in the Greater Monterey County IRWM Region City of Salinas $501,001 Ross P. Clark and Holly A. Bowers Evaluating Agricultural Management Practices Benefiting the Monterey Bay: Reducing Nutrient Loads and Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Events Environmental Protection Agency $786,068 Thomas Connolly, Kenneth H. Coale and Jason G. Smith CeNCOOS: Long-Term Monitoring of Environmental Conditions in Support of Marine Area Management in Central & Northern CA Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute $76,000 Colleen A. Durkin Linking Sinking Particle Chemistry & Biology w/ Changes in the Magnitude & Efficiency of Carbon Export into Deep Ocean University of Maine $138,796 Michael E. Feinholz and Mark Yarbrough Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) Operations and Technology Refresh University of Miami $2,440,900 Luke Gardner SJSURF/MLML–Aquaculture Services Elkhorn Slough Foundation $31,753 Jonathan B. Geller Marine Invasive Species Molecular Analysis (AGREEMENT NUMBER P2075008) California Department of Fish and Wildlife $249,321 Jonathan B. Geller Metagenetic Analysis. Invertebrate Diversity and Geographic Distribution based on Plankton and Settlement Plates Smithsonian Environmental Research Center $7,925 ANNUAL REPORT 2022 25 Jonathan B. Geller Marine Invasive Species Molecular Analysis (AGREEMENT NUMBER P2075008) California Department of Fish and Wildlife $83,937.00 Michael Graham Business Economic Analysis for West Coast based Urchin Ranching UC, San Diego $25,296 Michael Graham and Scott L. Hamilton Assessment of Practical Methods for Re-Establishment of Bull Kelp Populations at an Ecologically Relevant Scale UC, San Diego $173,802 Maxime Grand and Luke Gardner Evaluating the Contribution of Seaweed Aquaculture to Regional and Global Bromoform Production Rates UC, San Diego $59,445 Maxime Grand and Luke Gardner COST SHARE- Evaluating the Contribution of Seaweed Aquaculture to Regional and Global Bromoform Production Rates CSU, Monterey Bay $29,723 Herbert Gary Greene Assessing Pacific Sand Lance Subtidal Habitats and Biomass in Regards to Salmon Foraging in the San Juan Archipelago Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife $100,000 Scott L. Hamilton and Richard M. Starr California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program — Monitoring and Evaluation of California Marine Protected Areas California Natural Resources Agency $1,000,000 Jonathan B. Geller Assessing Ballast Water Management and Invasions in Great Lakes: Genetic and Metagenetic Analysis Smithsonian Environmental Research Center $220,000 Jonathan B. Geller Illumina MiSeq Library Preparation of Plankton Collected by the Invasion Ecology Laboratory, SERC Smithsonian Environmental Research Center $9,757
