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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Profiles from the Peninsula is a series dedicated to spotlighting the partners who make up the Binational Working Group, and their projects.