2025 Explorer Grants
![Woodward Fischer](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resnick/images/2021-150-Fisher-Headshots.max-250x250.jpg)
Blue Carbon Storage Changes in Southern Californiaís Largest Salt Marsh
![Climate EBE](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resnick/images/climate-EBE-150.max-250x250.jpg)
PIs: Woodward Fischer and Theodore Present
Research Team: TBD
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Climate Science Initiative and Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Initiative
We propose to reconstruct the sedimentary history and ecologic change in Mugu Lagoon to understand thedynamic consequences of sea level rise on salt marsh carbon storage.
![Bruce A. Hay](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resnick/images/2021-150-Hay-Headshots.max-250x250.jpg)
![Richard Murray](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resnick/images/2021-150-Murray-headshots.max-250x250.jpg)
Non-transgenic environmental curing of virulence plasmids from bacterial plant pathogens
![EBE](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resnick/images/EBE-100.max-250x250.jpg)
PIs: Bruce Hay and Richard Murray
Research Team: TBD
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Initiative
Increasing agricultural yields will be critical in meeting the food and commodity needs of a growing globalpopulation while minimizing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture. Successful application of ourresearch would decrease the prevalence and severity of bacterial plant diseases, thereby increasing yields andlowering the use of pesticides.
![Victoria J. Orphan](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resnick/images/150-orphan.max-250x250.jpg)
Connecting Scales of Coastal Seagrass Health and Extent with Imaging Spectroscopy
![Climate](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resnick/images/CLIMATE-100.max-250x250.jpg)
PI: Victoria Orphan
Research Team: TBD
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Climate Science Initiative
In order to reduce the uncertainties associated with carbon stocks and fluxes in blue carbon ecosystems, we willdevelop new methods to combine remote sensing and in situ measurements across multiple spatiotemporalscales.