The CCGP is a consortium of 100+ conservation scientists from across the state of California.

The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) is a state-funded initiative with a single goal: to produce the most comprehensive, multispecies, genomic dataset ever assembled to help manage regional biodiversity. The CCGP brings together many of California’s leading experts, working at the interface of genomics and conservation science, to provide decision makers with cutting-edge genomic resources and analyses. Our resources will inform conservation decisions in the face of rapidly accelerating species declines.

Our leaders

We have collaborators all across the state

The CCGP draws on conservation biologists, geneticists, ecologists, and climate scientists from all 10 University of California campuses, the UC Natural Reserve System, several California State University campuses, and officials from state and federal regulatory agencies and non-governmental organizations.

We have species in every ecoregion within California

By building a genomic dataset of more than 230 species, covering all ecoregions and habitats in the state, the CCGP is providing a completely unique genomic map of California that will influence land use management and conservation actions.