CA-CESU Strategic Plan

PDF icon CA-CESU Strategic Plan.pdf


2018-2022 Self-Assessment and Program Summary

PDF icon 2018-2022 Californian CESU Program Report


2023 Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement

PDF icon Amendment 1: Adding Pepperdine University 


2018 Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement

Amendment 1: adding Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research and The Marine Mammal Center

Amendment 2: adding Stanford University Department of Earth System Science

Amendment 3: adding Smithsonian Institution and Southern California Marine Institute

Amendment 4: adding Sierra Streams Institute

Amendment 5: adding California Academy of Sciences

Amendment 6:  amending U.S. Forest Service authorities language to include National Forest System

Amendment 7: adding National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers and replacing the University of Southern California School of Architecture with the University of Southern California

Amendment 8: adding the Natural Communities Coalition as a new nonfederal Partner Institution


2013 Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement

Amendment 1: adding California State University Sacramento (Sacramento State)

Amendment 2: adding San Bernardino County Museum and San Diego Natural History Museum

Amendment 3: adding Carnegie Mellon University

Amendment 4: CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (on behalf of California State University, Fullerton) and Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

Amendment 5: adding Bureau of Indian Affairs, California Association for Resource Conservation Districts, and Point Blue Conservation Science

Amendment 6: adding Sonoma State University and USC School of Architecture


2008 Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement

Amendment 1: adding California Department of Fish and Game

Amendment 2: adding National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Amendment 3: adding California State University, Channel Islands and the Institute for Bird Populations

Amendment 4: adding the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers–Civil Works, San Diego State University, and Institute for Wildlife Studies

Amendment 5: adding Santa Barbara Botanic Garden


2003 Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreement

Amendment 1: adding the Natural Resources Conservation Service

Amendment 2: adding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Amendment 3: adding the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense - Installations and Environment, California Polytechnic State University, California State University, Chico, and Humboldt State University

Amendment 4: adding California State University, Northridge

Amendment 5: adding California State University, Stanislaus