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NSF Award(s)
OCE-9982105
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OCE-0620276
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The Santa Barbara Coastal LTER is located in the coastal zone of southern California near Santa Barbara. It is bounded by the steep east-west trending Santa Ynez Mountains and coastal plain to the north and the unique Northern Channel Islands archipelago to the south. Point Conception, where the coast of California returns to a north to south orientation, lies at the western boundary, and the Santa Clara River marks its eastern edge.The site lies on the active boundary of the Pacific Oceanic Plate and the North American Continental Plate. High levels of tectonic activity have created dramatic elevation gradients in both the terrestrial and the underwater landscapes of the site. The Santa Barbara Channel includes some of the deepest ocean basins known on the continental shelf along with remarkable submarine canyons and escarpments.
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| Site History |
The SBC LTER was established in April 2000. The kelp forests, coastal ocean and watersheds of this area have been studied independently for many years.
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| Research Topics |
Effects of land use and ocean forcing on the processing and transport of nutrients and carbon to giant kelp forests.
Role of climate change/variability and disturbance on nearshore population dynamics, community structure, and ecosystem processes.
Controls on reef food webs.
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| Climate Info. |
| Annual |
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| Temperature |
24.1 c |
15.1c |
4.5c |
| Precipitation |
1196 mm/year |
463 mm/year |
114 mm/year |
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| Santa Barbara Coastal LTER Headlines |
- Annual LTER IMC meeting hosted in Santa Barbara
- From the Ground Up - Professional Development Workshop
- International LTER Meeting
- Hopping with Life: New Beach Wrack Brochures
- SBC uses satellite data to track influences on giant kelp
- SBC Investigator, John Melack, named AAAS Fellow.
- SBC work on coastal storms featured in climate news
- Second California LTER Graduate Student Symposium at UCSB
- SBC Investigator, Mark Brzezinski, becomes Director of the Marine Science Institute
- SBC research on genetics of giant kelp featured in ESA Podcast
- Tsunami caused by Chilean earthquake detected in Santa Barbara Channel
- SBC-LTER Investigator, Mark Brzezinski elected as an AGU Fellow
- SBC to host cross-site working group meeting for NSF Math and Science Partnership project
- SBC-LTER Investigators, Brzezinski and Gaines named AAAS Fellows
- SBC LTER Investigator, Steve Gaines, becomes Dean of the Bren School
- Semantic Tools for Ecological Data Management (Semtools)
- Three major fires burn Santa Barbara Coastal watersheds in less than a year
- 2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting
- SBC Investigator, Steve Gaines, receives award from Joint Ocean Commission
- SBC Investigator, Brad Cardinale, receives UCSB Plous Award
- EML 2.1.0 Released
- SBC Investigator, Sally Holbrook presents at NSF
- SBC LTER featured on NASA's Earth Observatory
- LTER Investigators join Coastal Barrier Island Network
- SBC Investigator, Dave Siegel, named AAAS Fellow
- New webcam and instruments to monitor conditions following the 2008 Gap fire
- SBC Investigator serves as acting Dean of Bren School
- ME students developing wave presssure sensor
- SBC Wildlife: Sea otters and gray whales
- SBC-Students and Postdocs to participate in 1st UC-LTER symposium at Scripps
- SBC Publications DB makes use of XQuery.
- International supplement from NSF facilitates research collaboration in kelp genetics.
- SBC Investigator John Melack named AAAS Fellow.
- SBC News is syndicated.
- Former SBC graduate student, Stu Levenbach, accepts position with Federal OMB
- SBC LTER hosts SEEDs field trip
- Seven SBC graduate students graduated in 2007
- Remote assessment of kelp dynamics
- Stu Levenbach receives John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
- High resolution imagery from SPOT available
- 2006 LTER All Scientists Meeting
- 7th International Temperate Reefs Symposium
- SBC at 2006 Science Fairs
- SBC LTER renewal proposal successful
- Arroyo Burro Watershed Virtual Tour released
- SBC Bibliography - Phase I launched
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