Awardees

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.

This funding will support our fuels management and site preparation efforts on gathering and hunting areas throughout our land and will enable us to plan safe and effective community cultural burns within them.

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.

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.

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.

This Small Grants funding provided Binational Working Group scientists with the opportunity to network and connect with others in their field at XI Mexican Congress of Coral Reefs, while sharing relevant information related to reefs’ climate resilience.

This project aims to create interwoven ecological corridors and green routes as a solution to urban heat islands in the city of Ensenada, Baja California. With support from the Small Grants program, the project scientists are creating a valuable dataset that will help inform solutions.