Jayson R Smith

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, College of Science

Current and Previous Grants

Current:

Rocky intertidal rockweed restoration. Ocean Protection Council. Subcontract from UCSB. June 2019 - February 2024
Assessment of rocky intertidal habitats for the California Marine Protected Area monitoring program. California Sea Grant. Subcontract from UCSC. May 2019 - November 2021
MARINe Long-Term Monitoring of Rocky Intertidal Shores. Subcontract UCSC from primary funder, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. September 1 2015-April 30, 2020.
San Elijo Restoration Project: Long-term Monitoring of the Effects of Sand Movement on Rocky Intertidal Communities in San Diego, CA. Subcontract within Merkel Associates (no funds to CPP). February 2017-February 2022.

Past:

Effectiveness of the Laguna Ocean Foundation Tidepool Educator Program. Subcontract within Laguna Ocean Foundation (no funds to CPP). May 2018-December 2018.
2017-18 Provost’s Teacher-Scholar Support Program. Tropical rocky intertidal ecology. July 2017-July 2018.
Death and Taxa: Monitoring Seismic Cycle Ground Deformation Using Rocky Intertidal Zone Mortality, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. CPP Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Grant Program (SIRG). June 2016-June 2017.
Biological Sciences department grant for the Environmental Biology major. Ernest Prete Jr. Foundation, 2014-2015,
The impacts of warm and dry Santa Ana winds on community composition of rocky intertidal communities. CPP President’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Program (RSCA), March 2015-September 2015.
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (previously Minerals Management Services) 2010-2015; “MARINe Monitoring Network: Rocky Shore Populations in Urban Southern California”
California SeaGrant, 2011-2014 - (Co-PI; UCSB lead; No funds for Smith Co-PI); Rocky Intertidal Ecosystems: Baseline Characterization and Monitoring along the South Coast
State Water Resources Control Board, 2012-2013; The experimental removal of non-indigenous seaweedson rocky shores: Effects on community structure and diversityand investigation into the feasibility of local eradication.
USC Sea Grant, 2008-2011; Distributions, abundances and feeding interactions with native consumers of non-indigenous seaweeds on urban southern California shores
Minerals Management Services, US Department of Interior 2007-2010; MARINe Monitoring Network: Rocky Shore Populations in Urban Southern California
Newport Coast and Laguna Beach ASBS Protection Program 2006-2009; Experimental Restoration of the rockweed Silvetia compressa at Little Corona del Mar

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Current and Previous Grants

Current:

Rocky intertidal rockweed restoration. Ocean Protection Council. Subcontract from UCSB. June 2019 - February 2024

Assessment of rocky intertidal habitats for the California Marine Protected Area monitoring program. California Sea Grant. Subcontract from UCSC. May 2019 - November 2021

MARINe Long-Term Monitoring of Rocky Intertidal Shores. Subcontract UCSC from primary funder, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. September 1 2015-April 30, 2020.

San Elijo Restoration Project: Long-term Monitoring of the Effects of Sand Movement on Rocky Intertidal Communities in San Diego, CA. Subcontract within Merkel Associates (no funds to CPP). February 2017-February 2022.

Past:

Effectiveness of the Laguna Ocean Foundation Tidepool Educator Program. Subcontract within Laguna Ocean Foundation (no funds to CPP). May 2018-December 2018.

2017-18 Provost’s Teacher-Scholar Support Program. Tropical rocky intertidal ecology. July 2017-July 2018.

Death and Taxa: Monitoring Seismic Cycle Ground Deformation Using Rocky Intertidal Zone Mortality, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. CPP Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Grant Program (SIRG). June 2016-June 2017.

Biological Sciences department grant for the Environmental Biology major. Ernest Prete Jr. Foundation, 2014-2015,

The impacts of warm and dry Santa Ana winds on community composition of rocky intertidal communities. CPP President’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Program (RSCA), March 2015-September 2015.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (previously Minerals Management Services) 2010-2015; “MARINe Monitoring Network: Rocky Shore Populations in Urban Southern California”

California SeaGrant, 2011-2014 - (Co-PI; UCSB lead; No funds for Smith Co-PI); Rocky Intertidal Ecosystems: Baseline Characterization and Monitoring along the South Coast

State Water Resources Control Board, 2012-2013; The experimental removal of non-indigenous seaweedson rocky shores: Effects on community structure and diversityand investigation into the feasibility of local eradication.

USC Sea Grant, 2008-2011; Distributions, abundances and feeding interactions with native consumers of non-indigenous seaweeds on urban southern California shores

Minerals Management Services, US Department of Interior 2007-2010; MARINe Monitoring Network: Rocky Shore Populations in Urban Southern California

Newport Coast and Laguna Beach ASBS Protection Program 2006-2009; Experimental Restoration of the rockweed Silvetia compressa at Little Corona del Mar