LA JOLLA — Seventeen marine research projects have received a total of about $550,000 in funding from the California Sea Grant. Part of the funding will benefit traineeships for 13 graduate student researchers. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) California Sea Grant College Program sponsors research at multiple universities throughout the state, administered by Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It is the largest of 32 California Sea Grant programs.