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The Division of Science & Environmental Policy (SEP) is the administrative home for an array of academic degree programs, research laboratories, and community outreach programs.

All SEP programs provide outstanding opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to learn how to use interdisciplinary science and technology to serve community needs.

SEP places a heavy emphasis on preparing students for rewarding careers and/or more advanced academic study in fields related to environmental resource assessment, management, and policy.

Faculty clusters provide particular strengths in marine and terrestrial biology/ecology, watershed science & hydrology, environmental science education, advanced technologies for geospatial data collection, analysis, and visualization, and molecular biology/genetics.

For more information on SEP's many programs, please follow the links at left or contact the SEP Office.
 

Field Notes ~ May 2012

SEP Division Chair Dan Fernandez and several capstone students have been involved in research to collect water from fog since 2005. Dr Fernandez has six “standard fog collectors” deployed in the Monterey region. These simple instruments coalesce tiny droplets of fog and can be used to measure the amount of water from fog and the chemicals contained within it. Dr Fernandez is currently working with researchers at NASA and UC Santa Cruz to characterize long-term temporal and spatial variability of the fog, to look at the role fog plays in the survival (and extinction) of various species, and to examine the chemical content of fog water.

Past Field Notes