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Binational Working Group

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Projects

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Attenuatas Forest Restoration

Attenuatas Forest Restoration

Post-Fire Restoration of the Pinus attenuata Forest

The goal of the Attenuatas project is to ensure the full restoration of the forest after a 2017 fire destroyed a third of the Pinus attenuata forest. These efforts include monitoring the region alongside local university undergraduate and graduate students, as well as working with local schools and youth organizations to use this as an educational opportunity to learn about this unique ecological zone.

Baja Working Group Data Sharing

Baja Working Group Data Sharing

A Metadata Repository of Climatic Data Sources

To help facilitate the sharing of data and other information about the Baja California Peninsula region, the Binational Working Group has created a metadata repository of climatic data sources relevant to our region.

Biodiversity and pyrodiversity in San Pedro Mártir mountain range

Biodiversity and pyrodiversity in San Pedro Mártir mountain range

A Binational Working Group 2022 Small Grants Recipient

This project aims to determine the relationship between pyrodiversity and forest biodiveristy in the San Pedro Mártir mountain range. With support from the Small Grants program, project scientists are collecting information about how species respond to fires of different severities.

Black Abalone Storymap

Black Abalone Storymap

A Binational Working Group 2023 Small Grants Recipient

This project will produce an ESRI story map about the endangered black abalone.

Building Local Capacity for Kelp Forest Restoration

Building Local Capacity for Kelp Forest Restoration

A Binational Working Group 2023 Small Grants Recipient

The Binational Working Group funds will kick-start an integrative, efficient, long-term, and sustainable restoration effort by organizing meetings, workshops, and diving trips with local fishers and scuba diving clubs.

Carbon Sequestration in Mangrove Ecosystems

Carbon Sequestration in Mangrove Ecosystems

A Project Led by Alliance Climate Intern

Led by the Alliance’s Climate Intern, Paula Sternberg Rodríguez, this project compared tools, techniques, and methodologies for the assessment of total carbon in mangrove forests, with the goal of facilitating carbon estimates for mangrove blue carbon studies.

Chronologs to Monitor Coastal Ecosystem Changes

Chronologs to Monitor Coastal Ecosystem Changes

A Binational Working Group 2023 Small Grants Recipient

This project will install two Chronologs® in Bahía de San Quintín (BSQ). Chronologs are a monitoring tool that have a fixed frame where visitors to a natural area can place their cell phones on the frame and take a photo.

Climate Change and the Baja California Peninsula

Climate Change and the Baja California Peninsula

A Baja Working Group Report

The goal of this project is to give rise to discussion around the subject of downscaled climate knowledge for the Baja California Peninsula, and to identify needs and future areas of collaboration. This report includes case studies of research activities across the region and provides an opportunity to better understand the state of our knowledge, identify research gaps, and advance collaboration.

Educational Resources for CBTIS 146

Educational Resources for CBTIS 146

A Binational Working Group 2022 Small Grants Recipient

Led by local educators in Tijuana, Baja California, the resources acquired through the Small Grants funding helped to engage approximately 500 high school students on climate-resilient culture and hope.

Experimental Black Abalone Translocation

Experimental Black Abalone Translocation

A Binational Working Group 2022 Small Grants Recipient

In order to restore natural populations and protect coastal resilience, Small Grant funds were used to document and expand on a translocation experimental project and subsequent monitoring of black abalone populations in Baja California.

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