Media Category: SBC

Red sand verbena (Abronia maritima) growing in the dune restoration area.

Dune restoration site on Santa Monica Beach with grooming tracks in the foreground over the control site.

A spiny lobster at the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER. These lobsters contribute an important source of nutrients to the system when upwelling is absent.

Jennifer Brandon (CCE), “Plastic Pollution: Myths, Facts, and How You Can Help”: Presenting a popular but poorly understood topic to broad and diverse audiences.

Maitreyi Nagarkar (CCE), Temporal Dynamics of Microbial Plankton Diversity at a Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Site.

Ali Freibott (CCE), Patterns of phytoplankton diversity and mortality due to grazing across trophic gradients in the Southern California Current.

Sloane Viola (SBC), The Role of Disturbance, Larval Supply, and Native Community on the Establishment of a Non-Native Species on Oil Platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel.

Students working hard and testing out those salad containers.

Students working hard and testing out those salad containers.

DIY tipping buckets. Take note of the yellow pool noodle used to cushion the buckets when they tip.