USC Sea Grant Program Review!!

June 10-11, 2015

Dr. Linda Duguay   Phyllis Grifman  _______________ Director  

_______________ Associate Director  

USC Sea Grant Philosophy  Basic and applied science that addresses critical issues! Honest broker / non-advocacy approach! User and stakeholder driven

•  promote connections between scientists and wide range of audiences

•  foster stakeholder participation!

University–based scientists and educators •  no regulatory function

Our Role  Understand regional landscape and science needs!!Fund relevant research!!Conduct outreach and education!!Serve as a neutral connector, convener and catalyst

Organization for Effectiveness  

Leadership role Federal/State allocations/Matching funds from USC External funding for special projects Expenditures for high priority research and outreach

2014 Reorganization  Ruth Dudas, Office Manager elevated to Fiscal/Grants Manager !!Holly Rindge, New Communications Manager !USC Dornsife has taken over IT needs!!Maintain close collegiality and team approach

Sea Grant at USC  

Good News – Federal Funding   USC! ! ! Former ! ! New"!

Base funding $771,000 ! ! $1,000,000"Merit funding ! $149,000 ! ! $178,204" !

(prior to FY 2014) (FY 2014 and forward)"

USC! ! ! ! ! ! FY 2014 FY 2015"‘Minibus’:"Base Increase ! ! ! $229,000 $229,000 "Merit Increase! ! ! ! $29,204 $29,204"Social Science Supplement $73,186 $73,186"!Total Funding ! $331,390 $331,390""Of the total, Competitive "Resilience Research must"be at least: ! ! ! ! $221,037 $221,037"

Increases in base and merit funds  

‘Minibus’ funds !allow 4 new !projects for !2014 – 2015  

Strategic Plan 2014 – 2017  Many sources:

USC Sea Grant Advisory Council!

Local •  Community Stakeholders

State •  RASGAP •  Ocean Protection Council

Regional •  West Coast Regional Sea Grant!

Research and Information Needs

National •  NSGO 2014-2017 Strategic Plan •  NOAA Strategic Plan

What is the Urban Ocean?  

Large populations adjacent to the coast !!Challenges to the health and vitality of marine !and coastal resources ! Diverse, intensive uses and competition for space The Southern California region is a model for other urban coastal regions

2014 – 2017 Strategic Plan Focus Areas  

Healthy Coastal Ecosystems !Resilient Communities and Economies Safe and Sustainable Seafood Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development

Focus Area 1: Healthy Coastal Ecosystems  

Coastal Ecosystem Heath

Water Quality

Climate Change Impacts!

Aquatic Invasive Species

Harmful Algal Blooms

Marine Protected Areas

Coastal Wetlands

Focus Area 2: Safe and Sustainable Seafood  

Seafood Contamination

Sustainable Aquaculture

Seafood Education

Climate Change Impacts

Focus Area 3: !Resilient Communities and Economies  

Marine-based Commerce, Ports and Harbors

Coastal Planning & Management, Land Use, !Competition for Space, User Conflicts

Low Impact Development

Social Science & Vulnerability Assessments

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

Focus Area 4: Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development  

Ocean and Environmental Literacy

Formal and Non-formal Education

Public Education and Citizen Science

Science and Environmental Careers

Proposal Solicitation and Review  

Process begins w/ input on research goals by Advisory Council

25-35 preliminary proposals

40-45% invited for full proposals

Academic Coordinator Review for preliminary proposals

Peer and Technical Review for full proposals

Resources Agency Sea Grant Advisory Panel reviews preliminary & full proposals  

Sea Grant staff and Advisory Council, ! January 2015

Research 2012 – 2014  

•  Resolving the annual pattern of algal toxins in coastal waters off Los Angeles !– A. Schnetzer, D. Caron (USC)

•  The value of habitat diversity in marine reserves: spiny lobster and sheephead use of the intertidal zone at the Santa Catalina Island MPA – C. Garza (CSUMB)

•  Will a warmer, more acidic ocean lead to increased Pseudo-nitzschia bloom toxicity in the Southern California Bight? – D. Hutchins, F. Fu (USC)

•  The ecosystem impacts of kelp forest habitat restoration, including important fishery species – D. Pondella (Occidental), T. Ford (SMBRC)

•  Contaminant-related thyroid disruption in wild fish in Southern and Northern California: cause and effect evaluations – K. Kelly (CSULB), J. Armstrong (OC Sanitation District)

•  The role of small upstream reservoirs in trapping organic carbon, nutrients and metal in the San Francisco Bay Area – L. Rademacher (U. Pacific), K. Faul (Mills)

•  Successful adaptation: identifying effective process and outcome characteristics and practice-relevant metrics – S. Moser, P. Matson (Stanford), A. Snover, D. Lach (U. Washington)

Research 2014 – 2016  •  Developing a model ordinance for California local governments to integrate sea

level rise adaptation into existing land use plans – S. Hecht, M. Herzog (UCLA)

•  New method for monitoring urban beach ecosystems !– K. Martin (Pepperdine), J. Dugan (UCSB)

•  The environmental and economic impacts of moorage marinas on the West Coast – J. Moore (USC), C. Bae (U. Washington), N. Trumbull (U. Connecticut)

•  Trophic transfer of domoic acid in food webs of the future greenhouse coastal ocean – D. Hutchins, F. Fu (USC)

•  *Transfer of sediment and water around headlands: observations and modeling at Point Dume, with implications for Santa Monica Bay beaches and littoral cell !– J. Largier, D. George (Bodega Marine Laboratory, UCD)

•  *Understanding fish habitat in a tidally restricted urban lagoon !– C. Whitcraft, C. Lowe (CSULB)

*begun Fall 2014 ‘Minibus’ funding

New ‘Minibus’ Research 2015 – 2016  •  Low inflow estuarine response to extreme events: storms and El Nino as

indicators of future conditions in urban Southern California estuaries !– S. Giddings, E. Pawlak (SIO / UCSD)

•  Developing a dialog / decision-support tool for climate-smart restoration and adaptive strategies in coastal wetlands of Southern California !– E. Stein (SCCWRP), R. Ambrose UCLA)

•  Cleaning urban stormwater on its way to the ocean: ecosystems services form natural treatment systems – L. Levin (SIO / UCSD)

•  Mobile beach erosion monitoring (MoBERM) – R. Guza, T. Gallien (SIO / UCSD)

•  Sustainable marine aquaculture in the Southern California Bight: a case study on environmental and regulatory confidence – P. Olin (UCSD), M. Drawbridge (Hubbs Seaworld Research Institute) (Sea Grant National Strategic Investment)

Graduate Students and Fellowships  

Sea Grant Trainees work with funded scientists for theses !and dissertation research

Track career paths of former Trainees

Aggressively recruit for Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, !NOAA Coastal Policy Fellowship

Track career paths of former Fellows. Many stay in NOAA; !a few even work for us!

 SGA Leadership, PMC & NOAA West (Duguay) Regional Representation & Liaison to Network Advisory !Council for Extension Assembly (Fawcett) Board Member, SG Education Network (Chilton) SG Climate Network Co-Chairs (Hart, Mann)

Sea Grant Network  

Sea Grant Network  

Social Science Community of Practice (Grifman) •  Setting network goals for social science •  Social science initiative for West Coast programs •  Sea Grant Week social science sessions (2012, 2014)

Examining Metrics for Sea Grant reporting (Grifman) •  Committee for revising metrics on defining “communities”

Balancing Research, Extension and Education  

Linking research, extension and education

Developing work plans, interactions and networks !(i.e., rocky intertidal group)

Sea Grant “feedback loop”

Extension and Collaborations  

Rocky Intertidal Index MARINe Group •  Based on initial SG research on rocky shores •  SG supported initial scoping/planning

Marine Life Protection Act •  Stakeholder driven – SG neutral voice, support scientific goals •  Southern California MPA Network January 1, 2012 •  MPA Watch, LA MPA Collaborative

Extension and Collaborations  

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council •  10 years tenure, Vice Chair (Grifman)

Education Working Group •  Regional collaboration on education initiatives (Chilton)!

Marine Shipping Working Group •  Co-chair multi-stakeholder panel addressing shipping, !

marine mammal and air quality issues (Grifman, Fawcett)

USC Sea Grant Stakeholders by Category  

Research and Extension Highlights  

Dr. Jim Fawcett" __________________

Marine Transportation and Seaport Specialist

Director of Extension

Marine Extension: Who We Are

“Rod Steiger is the best-connected actor in history because he has managed to move up and down and back and forth among all the different worlds and subcultures and niches and levels that the acting profession has to offer. This is what Connectors are like. They are the Rod Steigers of everyday life. They are people whom all of us can reach in only a few steps because, for one reason or another they manage to occupy many different worlds and subcultures and niches.”

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

USC Sea Grant Extension & Education FTE Level of Effort�

Chilton 1.0 FTE Sea Grant & USC Fawcett 0.7 FTE Sea Grant & Paul Hall

Endowment Grifman 0.5 FTE Sea Grant Hart 0.5 FTE Sea Grant & USC Mann 1.0 FTE Sea Grant Whitley 0.5 FTE Sea Grant & COSEE SG Trainee 0.4 FTE Sea Grant TOTAL 4.6 FTE

Marine Transportation Program

Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach - busiest port complex in U.S. Our mission

• Raise issues • Connect parties •  Provide advice and expertise •  Educate

Clients •  Local and international

Tools •  Informal communications •  Lectures •  Teaching • Hosting conferences

Marine Transportation Outreach

USC SG/USC Loker Hydrocarbon Institute •  Conference on New Maritime Fuels: Methanol

FuturePorts •  Ongoing informal involvement with marine industry

Southern California Marine Exchange •  Ongoing informal involvement •  Co-participants in Whale-Vessel Interaction Study !

of Santa Barbara Channel

Marine Policy & Coastal Management

Joint USC Sea Grant and Aquarium of the Pacific Conferences • Marine spatial planning • Offshore marine aquaculture •  Aquaculture policy forum for aquariums

Collaboration with Sea Grant Law Center and UCLA Law School • Conference on legal aspects of marine aquaculture

International Outreach

Annual Asian lectures International visitors to USC

Logistics Education

Visiting Scholar • Dr. Hyo Won Kang, Chung Ang University, Seoul •  Visiting scholar at USC SG for one year •  Joint authorship of logistics research with Dr. Kang •  International Conference on Global Integration of Economies and

Connectivity Development in collaboration with Asian Logistics Round Table, Soochow University, Taipei, September 2015

___________________

Sea Level Rise and Climate Change  

Marine and Climate Science Specialist

Dr. Juliette Finzi Hart

Regional Research and Planning Specialist

Alyssa Newton Mann _________________

CA Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Survey

16 California-focused partners (including CA Sea Grant) •  CCCAI funding!

Coastal county survey •  Understand information needs •  Understand barriers •  Develop targeted trainings, workshops, and technical support

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$2.5 Million made available to coastal communities!

LCP Sea Level Rise Grant Announcement

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Background The National Research Council (NRC) recently released its report “Sea-level Rise for the Coasts of  California,  Oregon,  and  Washington:  Past,  Present,  and  Future” (NRC Report). The NRC Report confirms that California has already experienced sea-level rise and is likely to experience significant increases in sea-level over the next century. The NRC Report also concludes that over the next several decades the most significant impacts will come from the combined effects of sea-level rise and extreme weather events (coastal storms and surges), particularly during El Niño storm cycles and high tides. El Niño events of 1982 and 1997 caused temporary increases in sea-level that combined with storm surges resulted in significant coastal flooding and erosion. Impacts from these kinds of events will likely be amplified as sea-level rises. The NRC Report concludes that sea-level change has enormous implications for coastal planning, land use, and development along the California coast. A 2009 Pacific Institute study, funded in part by the OPC, estimated that without any proactive planning the economic impacts of sea-level rise by 2100 could exceed $100 billion. California’s  2009 Climate Adaption Strategy identified the need to support regional and local planning to address sea-level rise impacts, and specifically highlights the importance of updating Local Coastal Programs as a key adaptation strategy. The Coastal and Oceans chapter states that “all coastal jurisdictions, in coordination with the Coastal Commission, should begin to develop amended  LCPs  that  include  climate  change  impacts”  (pg  77). The California Natural Resources Agency and California Emergency Management Agency recently released the California Climate Change Adaptation Policy Guide which emphasizes the importance of starting to plan for climate change impacts immediately and recognizes the critical role of local and regional jurisdictions in this effort. While a few communities have begun to work on vulnerability assessments, there is a need for assistance to help complete this work. USC Sea Grant conducted a Coastal California Adaptation Needs Assessment in 2011 which found that local communities understand the need to start planning for climate change impacts but lacked the financial resources to complete this work. These grants directly address that need. A December 2012 Local Government workshop held by the Coastal Commission highlighted the need for additional local and technical assistance and Coastal Commission staff resources to assist with the updating of existing LCPs. The purpose of this grant program is to encourage local governments and other entities responsible for planning under the Coastal Act to develop and adopt updated plans that conserve and protect coastal resources, such as public accessways and recreation sites, environmentally sensitive habitat areas and other coastal and terrestrial resources, agricultural areas, new and existing development, coastal-dependent and visitor-serving uses, critical infrastructure, and other resources and priority uses identified by the Coastal Act from future impacts from sea-level rise and related climate change impacts such as extreme weather events. Priority will be given to planning approaches that emphasize use of natural infrastructure to address climate change impacts.

- OPC Staff Report, 2012

AdaptLA: Sea Level Rise !Vulnerability Study for the City of Los Angeles  

Assessed physical, economic, social and ecological vulnerabilities !

Partnered with the Mayor’s office, city agencies, and engaged a regional stakeholder working group

Study released in Jan 2014 at 100+ public forum with extensive press coverage (LA Times, Al Jazeera, KPCC)

$100K NSGO CCCAI funding, again!

Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Study for the City of Los Angeles

A Report for the Mayor of Los AngelesPrepared by the

University of Southern California Sea Grant Program

Regional AdaptLA: �Coastal Impacts Planning for the L.A. Region

Advancing the science •  Coastal Storms Modeling System (USGS) •  Shoreline Evolution & Beach Changes (TerraCosta Consulting) •  Backshore Characterization (Environmental Science Associates) Capacity Building and Stakeholder Outreach •  Trainings/Workshops •  Webinars •  Public Education •  Urban Tides Video & Photo Contest

Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) 3.0 !for Southern California

USC Sea Grant (w/ SCC funding) providing technical assistance and outreach

Sub-regions: •  Santa Barbara/Ventura •  L.A. (leveraging AdaptLA) •  Orange County •  San Diego

Southern California Coastal Impacts Project !(CoSMoS Outreach)

Regional & National Leadership on Climate Change

Los Angeles Regional Collaborative on Climate Action (LARC) •  Steering Committee Member

Alliance of Regional Collaboratives on Climate Adaptation (ARCCA) •  Founding organization •  Executive Team Leadership

West Coast Governors Alliance (WCGA) •  Participation on Climate Action Team

National Sea Grant Climate Network (SGCN) •  Co-Chairs & Pacific Coast Representative •  Hosted 2012 National Sea Grant Climate Network Conference

Education Highlights  

Linda Chilton _______________ Education Programs Manager

Bringing Current Science Research and Policy !to Formal and Non-formal Education  

Aquatic Invasive Species

•  Professional Development

•  International Science & Engineering Fair Outreach

•  Toolkits for Non-formal Centers

•  Stewardship Projects

Safe and Sustainable Seafood  

Fish Barotrauma Outreach

Tuna Fisheries Curriculum Modules

Seabass in the Classroom

Environmental Literacy !and Workforce Development  

Ocean Literacy •  Aligned with Next Generation Science Standards Professional Development •  Key to the Sea •  Climate Change •  Marine Protected Areas •  Next Generation Science Standards •  Education in the Environment Initiative •  Common Core

Environmental Literacy !and Workforce Development  

Los Angeles Coastal California Master Naturalist Training

High School Summer Program on Catalina Island

Island Explorers

Parent-Child Program

USC Sea Grant Communications  

Holly Rindge _______________ Communications Manager

Communication Goals and Planning!

Website Redesign

Increased Engagement: media presence, social media, online

The Urban Mariner

Sea Grant Anniversaries

USC Sea Grant Communications  

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USC Sea Grant’s Urban Ocean Report: !The Urban Mariner  

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