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Binational Working Group

Photo credit: Drew Talley

Small Grants

The Climate Science Alliance team understands the barriers many groups and individuals face to obtaining funding, and has seen firsthand how these barriers limit our community partners in pursuing, implementing, or continuing projects of value to our region. Sometimes, even a small amount of funding can make the difference between achieving a shared goal and canceling a project altogether.
 

Our small grants program supports community-led efforts that fill in gaps in existing projects and helps seed fund new efforts to safeguard natural and human communities in the face of a changing climate.

About the Grant

The total amount available for each year varies. Projects must have a climate change adaptation emphasis, and should be geographically constrained to the Baja California Peninsula, its surrounding waters, or the Mexico-California border region.


There are two types of funding available to support professional development opportunities or research/outreach support.

 I. Professional Development opportunities 

  • Examples include, but are not limited to, conference attendance fees, education course or training fees, certification fees, or compensation for community outreach efforts in the Baja California Peninsula region.

 II. Research and/or Outreach Support

  • Examples include, but are not limited to, related supplies, materials, communication tools or platforms, or travel support for research and/or outreach efforts in the Baja California Peninsula region.

Small Grants Recipients

Explore our Small Grants recipients using the filters below:

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Black Abalone Storymap

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

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Building Local Capacity for Kelp Forest Restoration

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.

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Chronologs to Monitor Coastal Ecosystem Changes

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.

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Interpretive Hiking Trail at the Cucapá Community

This interpretative hiking trail seeks to awaken the curiosity of hikers about the biodiversity and ancestral culture of the Cucapá community for the development of positive values of the relationships between society and nature.

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Lichens as Climate Change Indicators

This project's objective is to analyze the distribution and diversity of lichens in general, and the use of some representative species and indicators, already used in California and other parts of the world.

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Lizzy the Lizard - A Children’s Story

This project revolves around the graphic design of a children's story that tells the story of a lizard of spotted sides, in search of its identity.

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Transborder Landscape Design Workshop

This professional development grant will be used by Sarina Vega, a landscape architecture Master’s student, to attend a 9-day in-field research workshop, Transborder Landscapes.

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Biodiversity and pyrodiversity in San Pedro Mártir mountain range

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.

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Educational Resources for CBTIS 146

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.

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Experimental Black Abalone Translocation

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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