UC Santa Cruz has received nearly $7.5 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to vault scientific research on imperiled Pacific salmon populations into one of the nation’s most powerful collaborations between the agency and academia to save the vital species. The transformational funding will support and expand a longstanding joint effort between UC Santa Cruz and NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center—a partnership that the agency sees as one of the most robust of its 16 collaborative research institutes, which spans 80 universities across the country.

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