SBC LTER news and events

• 2024-04-10 "UC Santa Barbara Researchers Launch CoastSnap, Citizen Science Initiative to Monitor Coastal Changes"
• 2024-01-31 "Scientific Research Soars with NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program"
• 2024-01-09 "The Choreography of Cross-ecosystem Subsidies that Connects the Kelp Forest to the Beach"

SBC 2024 Earth Day

SBC will be co-hosting a booth with MCR at the 2024 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival on April 27 and April 28, Alameda Park, Santa Barbara

Saturday, April 27, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Sunday, April 28, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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IGPMS Grad seminars Winter 2024 SBC Students

January 16

Chance English - Controls on macrolagal DOC release and composition

Jordan Snyder - sUAS (drone) imagery reveal high-resolution flow dynamics in Bedford Basin, Nova Scotia

January 23

Ricky Brokaw - Physical controls of anomalous phytoplankton blooms

January 30

Billy Ray-Quantifying the volume of water filtered by coastal boring clam populations: A non-boring approach

Cecily Tye- Characterizing Coastal Mixing Along the Santa Barbara Shelf Using Reynolds Decomposition and Spectral Analysis

February 6

Luke Carberry - How much does the color of the ocean vary on kilometer scales? Insights from Landsat

Nathalie Eegholm - Modeling giant kelp plant and frond survivorship

February 13

Billie Beckley - Disturbance drives interannual variability in giant kelp net primary production

February 27

Julia Cox- Marine Protected Areas as a tool to study movement and effects of fishing on kelp forest ecosystems

Hayley Goss - Generating a draft genome for Crassadoma gigantea, the purple-hinged Rock scallop

March 5

Inez Mangino - Investigating macroalgal epifaunal community structure, dynamics, and species interactions

Kristen Michaud - Shifts in understory macroalgal community structure in the SBC

March 12

Natalie Dornan - Nitrogen supply to the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, assessed using natural abundance stable isotopes

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SBC data workshops

The SBC Information Management Office is offering three workshops during the lunch hour (12:00 pm - 1:00 pm) over three Fridays. If you are interested, please complete this brief form: Workshop Registration Form.

Workshop Topics:

Oct 13, 2023 Data Organization: This includes designing datasheets, organizing data folders, conducting data entry checks, and documenting metadata, along with an introduction to the SBC Data Catalog.

Oct 27, 2023 Data Visualization: Learn about using R to create time series figures using SBC long-term datasets.

Nov 17, 2023 Data Publication: Explore topics related to data formats, metadata submission, obtaining data DOIs, and an introduction to the SBC data publication workflow