SBC LTER news and events
News
- 2024-09-10 Coastal dunes and nature-based adaptation to climate change: SBC investigator Ian Walker is leading a $1.9 million grant focusing on dunes as nature-based solutions to enhance the resilience of California’s beaches to climate change
- 2024-04-10 "UC Santa Barbara Researchers Launch CoastSnap, Citizen Science Initiative to Monitor Coastal Changes"
- 2024-04-09 Led by UCSB including SBC investigator Jenny Dugan, a team of researchers from five institutions and organizations will develop the California Beach Resiliency Plan. The effort will produce new guidance for beach resiliency from the community level up to the state level covering the entire Californian coast.
- 2024-03-07 SBC student Karina Johnston was awarded a California Sea Grant graduate research fellowship to measure performance of coastal dune restoration projects in Southern California
- 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"
Events
SBC 2025 Earth Day
SBC will be co-hosting a booth with MCR at the 2025 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival on April 26 and April 27, Alameda Park, Santa Barbara
SBC LTER team, Saturday, April 26, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.
MCR LTER team, Sunday, April 27, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
SBC data workshops
Feb 25, 2025 Data Inspection: This workshop focuses on broadening and accelerating data quality checks using R and AI tools, featuring three expert speakers.
Nov 15, 2024 Data Discovery Workshop: This workshop explores the pathway to access and download SBC data from the Environmental Data Repository, cite these datasets in your publications, and link your publications to the datasets. Additionally, we will explore how to download data from other repositories such as USGS, NOAA, and NASA.
Nov 22, 2024 Data Publication: Explore topics related to data formats, metadata submission, obtaining data DOIs, and an introduction to the SBC data publication workflow
News
Events
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.
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
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
SBC 2023 Earth Day
SBC will be co-hosting a booth with MCR at the 2023 Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival on April 29 and April 30, Alameda Park, Santa Barbara
Saturday, April 29, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 30, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
SBC LTER 2021 winter/spring seminars
Feb 10: Theme 1a. Community and ecosystem consequences of climate variability, disturbance and pathways of recovery. Presenters: Bob Miller & Max Castorani
Feb 19: Theme 1b. Ecological consequences of fishing. Presenters: Hunter Lenihan and Bart DiFiore
Mar 5: Theme 2a. Effects of kelp on physical and chemical fluxes. Presenter: Nick Nidzieko
Apr 8: Theme 1c. Sources and utilization of recycled nitrogen. Presenters: Alyson Santoro
