State Fellowship recipient Steve Choy plays in the snow during a backpacking trip in Yosemite National Park.

How do early-career scientists make that jump from academia to marine policy and resource management? Easy. They win California Sea Grant State Fellowships and get paid to intern at the Golden State’s best marine-related agencies.

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An ecologist who thinks toxic algae may be partially to blame for pelagic species declines in the San Francisco Bay-Delta and a hydrologist who believes that global warming could bring more wintertime floods to the Central Valley are among two of this year’s recipients of CALFED Science Fellowships.

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Cecile Mioni, a 2009 CALFED Science Fellow.

A kelp bass in the La Jolla Ecological Reserve. Credit: Brad Erisman

According to results of a four-year diver survey, the marine reserve at the La Jolla Cove, established in 1971, has created a haven for sportfishes. 

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