SEASIDE — The future of coastal fog is anything but clear.

Daniel Fernandez, a Cal State Monterey Bay professor and electrical engineer-turned-fog researcher, recently launched the Pacific Coastal Fog Research project. Fernandez and a team of researchers around the U.S., the self-anointed “Fog Five,” were awarded a $733,000 grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to study the impact of climate change on fog over the next five years through the project. The Fog Five hope to clear up the debated present and future state of the iconic scenery staple of California’s coast.

“It’s so ever-present in so many of our lives,” Fernandez says. “Whether we love it or hate it, it’s there.”

Fernandez will be monitoring the intake of fog at 15 collectors he has already placed along the California coas

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