The snail-like mollusks are a colorful tool for monitoring ocean climate.

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Okenia rosacea, a dorid nudibranch that gets its color from the red bryozoans it eats. Photo: Gary McDonald

Sanderlings (foreground) and willets (the larger birds in the background) feed on intertidal animals that are disappearing from some sandy beaches. Photo: David Hubbard

The winning projects take ecosystem-based approaches.

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The CALFED Science Fellows program funds postdoctoral and graduate researchers to work with community and scientific mentors on targeted CALFED program research priorities, including collaborative data analysis and Bay-Delta projects. This month, Science News spotlights Fellow Walter N. Heady, winner of the science conference student oral presentation for his talk on the movement and survival of steelhead trout in the Mokelumne River.

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CALFED Fellow Walter Heady