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Sun sets over the ocean with gentle waves lapping up against the shore, viewed from a beach.
Sunset at the Dangermond The sun sets on the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. © Ian Boyle

Winter 2023 Update

The Point Conception Institute

New approaches for understanding environmental change

View looking out at the ocean from the coast on the Dangermond Preserve in California.
Dangermond Preserve Looking out at the ocean from the coast on the Dangermond Preserve in California. © Mark Reynolds/TNC

The establishment of the Dangermond Preserve as a stronghold for biodiversity continues to create new opportunities for conservation science and restoration. The Jalama Creek watershed body of work is an excellent example. TNC owns nearly the entire 24 square-mile watershed. Steelhead, also called steelhead trout, is the common name of a form of the coastal rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus) that hatch in freshwater, migrate to the ocean to forage and mature and return to freshwater streams to spawn, a life history shared with salmon, lamprey, and sturgeon that is called anadromy. Jalama Creek was once an important steelhead stream system. Southern California populations of steelhead have declined precipitously with steelhead last observed in Jalama Creek in the 1990s and the southern California population of steelhead was declared federally endangered in 1997. TNC’s ownership and management of Jalama Creek makes it an ideal setting for conservation efforts and it has enabled Point Conception Institute’s (PCI’s) research and restoration partners to deploy a network of surveys and freshwater sensors while working on an ambitious plan to bring steelhead back. Recently, Laura Riege, Dangermond Preserve Restoration Manager and Keith Miller, Dangermond Preserve Restoration Associate, led a NOAA-funded barrier removal project. They used explosives to remove the JA-1, an old non-functional dam which completely blocked upstream passage for freshwater species. Blowing up a dam for steelhead attracted the attention of the Los Angeles Times and led to an in-depth feature story on our science and conservation work.

Research

  • The Point Conception Institute (PCI) has now facilitated more than 95 research projects, establishing relationships with principal investigators and research partners from more than 40 institutions. The interest of leading research institutions continues to be a testament to the scientific opportunities at the Dangermond Preserve and to the potency of PCI as a collaboration catalyst. In particular, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) research projects funded by the Zegar Family Foundation have created valuable learning opportunities for PCI in developing an innovative approach to high-impact scientific collaborations.

Projects

    • Wildlife community resilience to wildfire. Dr. Ruth Oliver, UCSB Bren School
    • Mapping and dating marine terraces from Point Conception to Point Sal to evaluate rates and patterns of coastal uplift and fault hazards, Nate Onderdonk, CSULB
    • Ecosystem assessments based on Earth observations to inform management of invasive ice plant for biodiversity conservation, Dr. Ben Halpern, NCEAS, Drs Mark Reynolds, Elizabeth Hiroyasu, TNC, and Laura Riege, TNC.
Map of the California Coast High ecological intactness of Gaviota Coast region from 'California's Wild Coast Story Map.' © Sophia Leiker/TNC

Spotlight

Coastal Science

With a thousand miles of coastline and a favorable climate, California (USA) is known for its breathtaking coastal areas and beaches. Coastal areas around the world are threatened by incompatible development and habitat destruction, sea level rise, and changing ocean conditions. Remaining areas of wild coastline are strongholds for biodiversity and resilience in a changing world. California has long been a leader in coastal protection but how well is our coast protected against growing threats? A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science fully led by PCI and Nature Conservancy scientists investigated protection of remaining wild coastal areas in California using a simple methodology that can be applied in other settings.

The authors of the study established simple and easily assessed criteria for mapping wild coastal areas defined by physical and ecological intactness and connectivity, native species and habitat diversity, and limited human disturbance. Coastal wildness is threatened by high demand for access to and development of coastal margins; sea level rise exacerbates this threat. As a case study, California, a biodiversity hotspot, has a network of marine and terrestrial protected areas along the coast and strong coastal policy. While 35% of California’s coast has wildness attributes, only 9% of California’s coast is characterized as wild and also protected on both land and in the adjacent waters. A multi-tiered approach is needed to incorporate wild coast attributes into conservation planning and protection of coastal areas. A coastal wildness designation may be needed, as well as policies that manage for wildness attributes in existing protected areas.

We have also developed external-facing products that go hand-in-hand with our peer-reviewed scientific literature, including a Wild Coast Modeler Tool and an accompanying StoryMap. We are continually looking for opportunities to integrate our data into large networks. An example is the data from the marine monitoring trailer deployed on preserve that provides surveillance data of boat traffic in the Point Conception State Marine Reserve, which we are sharing with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and other regulatory agencies that oversee Marine Protected Areas. These agencies use the data in monthly meetings to evaluate staffing and risks to Marine Protected Areas across California.

Update: PCI Science Symposium 2024

PCI is partnering with UCSB’s Bren School of the Environment to host our next Point Conception Institute Science Symposium on the UCSB campus on March 15, 2024. Stay tuned for updates on the program closer to the date. To learn more about the event, please see the 2023 PCI Symposium Report.

Point Conception Institute Anthony LaFetra Research Fellow, Erica Nielsen
Erica Nielson, Point Conception Institute Anthony LaFetra Research Fellow, Erica Nielsen © Mandy Frazier

PCI Fellows Program

TNC is pleased to announce that the inaugural Point Conception Institute Anthony LaFetra Research Fellow is Dr. Erica Nielsen, a coastal marine scientist who shares the deep passion for California and its native wildlife that Anthony LaFetra personified throughout his life.

After a highly competitive search that attracted dozens of applicants from around the country, Dr. Erica Nielsen was selected as the program’s first fellow. 

To learn more about Erica and her work, click here.

 

New website

We are excited to announce that Dangermond Preserve and PCI launched a new website this summer, visit us at https://www.dangermondpreserve.org/.

Please bookmark this page: https://www.dangermondpreserve.org/science/point-conception-institute/.

Collaborations

Coastal Ecosystem Subsidies Workshop – TNC-NCEAS 2023.
Coastal Ecosystem Subsidies In late October, PCI co-hosted a workshop on ‘Coastal Ecosystem Subsidies’ at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) with researchers from NCEAS, TNC, UCSB, National Geographic, Cal Poly SLO, and UCSC. This was the first ever workshop and synthesis on the role of coastal carnivore in ecosystem subsidies and the importance of coastal connectivity. © Ginger Gillquist/NCEAS
× Coastal Ecosystem Subsidies Workshop – TNC-NCEAS 2023.
Project SHIFT team at PCI December 2023.
SHIFT In December, PCI hosted researchers from TNC, NASA-JPL, UCSB Sedgwick La Kretz Center, Vandenberg Space Force Base, NCEAS, and the Carnegie Institution for Science for a 2-day workshop on future directions for Project SHIFT, the NASA-UCSB-TNC research partnership on hyperspectral imagery technology and biodiversity and climate change monitoring. (SHIFT stands for Surface Biology and Geology HIgh Frequency Time Series) © Mark Reynolds/TNC
× Project SHIFT team at PCI December 2023.
Coastal Ecosystem Subsidies In late October, PCI co-hosted a workshop on ‘Coastal Ecosystem Subsidies’ at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) with researchers from NCEAS, TNC, UCSB, National Geographic, Cal Poly SLO, and UCSC. This was the first ever workshop and synthesis on the role of coastal carnivore in ecosystem subsidies and the importance of coastal connectivity. © Ginger Gillquist/NCEAS
SHIFT In December, PCI hosted researchers from TNC, NASA-JPL, UCSB Sedgwick La Kretz Center, Vandenberg Space Force Base, NCEAS, and the Carnegie Institution for Science for a 2-day workshop on future directions for Project SHIFT, the NASA-UCSB-TNC research partnership on hyperspectral imagery technology and biodiversity and climate change monitoring. (SHIFT stands for Surface Biology and Geology HIgh Frequency Time Series) © Mark Reynolds/TNC

In summer 2023, PCI offered internships and capstone projects to a select group of graduate student researchers from the UCSB Bren School working on the Gaviota Coast Conservation Plan project.

Venturing into the field to collect data that will underpin the construction of the Freshwater Digital Twin.
Jinsu Elhance Venturing into the field to collect data that will underpin the construction of the Freshwater Digital Twin. © TNC

Freshwater Digital Twin Guidebook and Other Tools

Conservation Technology

This year, we continued to expand our preserve monitoring network by deploying several new technologies.

Freshwater Digital Twin Guidebook and Other Tools

As part of our work to expand the adoption and use of data outside of our initial partner network, we have developed a Freshwater Digital Twin Guidebook, which will be key to documenting lessons learned in the instrumentation of the Jalama Watershed and in analyzing data from its sensors. This guidebook distills the tools and techniques we have used in the implementation of a Freshwater Digital Twin of the Jalama Watershed over the past two years into a step-by-step user guide to installing technical instrumentation, building operational data streams, and developing inputs to water-balance and water-budget equations for watershed monitoring and management.

To learn more about this work, check out our staff stories featuring PCI’s Conservation Tech Associate, Jinsu Elhance’s work.

If you are ready to submit your research data or want to see published research data from nearby, check out our Dangermond Preserve Research Repository for Data Discovery.

Point Conception Institute Field Station
Point Conception Institute Field Station © Mark Reynolds/TNC

Coming Later in 2024

We have been hard at work on renovations and construction of the PCI Field Station at Dangermond Preserve. Thanks to our visionary supporters at the Zegar Family Foundation, the Zarcades Family Foundation and the Jack and Laura Dangermond Conservation Foundation, PCI will have much-needed research facilities and overnight accommodations in 2024.

Thank you for your support!

We are grateful for your support of PCI’s mission to harness the power of science and technology for conservation. As we begin a new year, we can reflect on the progress we’ve made and the dynamic research community we are building together. While these biannual newsletters are a great way to provide updates, we can’t wait to be together again. PCI is partnering with UCSB’s Bren School to host our next Point Conception Institute Science Symposium on the UCSB campus on March 15, 2024. We look forward to gathering our research community and continuing to learn from each other.

Onward!

Mark

Spring 2023 Update

The Point Conception Institute

Collaboration, Open Science and Technology for Conservation Impact

View looking out at the ocean from atop the bluffs along the coast of Dangermond Preserve in California.
Dangermond Preserve Early December morning on the coast. © Kelly Easterday/TNC

Research Highlights

The Point Conception Institute (PCI) has now facilitated more than 70 research projects, establishing relationships with principal investigators and research partners from more than 20 institutions (see PCI Research tab). The interest of leading research institutions is testament to the scientific opportunities at the Dangermond Preserve and to the potency of PCI as a collaboration catalyst. In particular, the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) research projects funded by the Zegar Family Foundation have created valuable learning opportunities for PCI in developing an innovative approach to high-impact scientific collaborations.

New Projects

  • Marine resource use by small mammals—Katie Elder, Dr. Tim Bean, Cal Poly SLO
  • Prescribed fire planning, implementation, monitoring—Dr. Elizabeth Hiroyasu, Moses Katkowski, TNC, UC Berkeley, UCSB, UC Extension
  • Seal haul-out camera monitoring—Dr. Chris Lowe, Shark Lab, CSU Long Beach
  • Marine to terrestrial ecosystem subsidies on the Gaviota Coast—Dr. Hillary Young, Zoe Zilz, UCSB
  • Headland bypass dune ecosystems and sand transport analysis—Dr. Ian Walker, Maddison Heffentrager, UCSB
  • Linking freshwater ecosystems to wildfire risk, a new NASA grant—Dr. Ben Halpern, NCEAS, and Dr. Kelly Easterday, TNC

Spotlight: Groundwater Research

UCSB Bren School Associate Professor Scott Jasechko and colleagues published an important study in Nature Communications on analysis of thousands of groundwater wells (including wells at Dangermond Preserve). Their research shows that modern groundwater is being pulled deeper into heavily pumped aquifer systems, potentially endangering deep groundwater quality.

Coming Later in 2023

We have been hard at work on renovations and construction of the PCI Field Station at Dangermond Preserve. Thanks to our visionary donors the Zegar Family Foundation, the Zarcades Family Foundation and the Jack and Laura Dangermond Conservation Foundation, PCI will have much-needed research facilities and overnight accommodations later in 2023.

An architectural rendering of the Dangermond Preserve PCI field station facilities.
The Zarcades Family house under construction.
Point Conception Institute Field Station: Zegar Cook House at the Dangermond Preserve.
Point Conception Institute Field Station: Adobe Office at the Dangermond Preserve.

Update: Project Shift—NASA-UCSB-TNC PCI Research

In September, NASA-JPL led a convening of Project SHIFT (Surface Biology and Geology High Frequency Time Series) at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara. More than 40 researchers from NASA, UCSB, UCLA, TNC, the University of Wisconsin and other institutions participated in the two-day conference.

Participants of the NASA-UCSB-PCI Project SHIFT science
NASA, UCSB, PCI Project SHIFT 9/13/22-9/14/22 Project SHIFT Science Meeting at NCEAS with NASA, UCSB, and PCI. © Ginger Gillquist/NCEAS

PCI Fellows Program

We are excited to announce the La Fetra PCI Research Fellow Program. Thanks to a generous gift from the La Fetra Family Foundation we are establishing a conservation research fellows program for scholars working with PCI. Research fellows play a critical role in facilitating collaborations among diverse institutions and lead the execution of complex research plans to deliver scientific discoveries and findings. Fellows will work at the interface of science and TNC’s conservation work at the Dangermond Preserve. We plan to bring on our inaugural La Fetra PCI Fellow in 2023.

PCI Fellow Opportunity

The Nature Conservancy’s Point Conception Institute (PCI) is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our inaugural La Fetra PCI Conservation Science Fellow. The La Fetra PCI Research Fellow Program aims to leverage the ecological bounty of the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve to attract scientists who will tackle today’s most pressing conservation challenges. We aim to bolster the next generation of science leaders by providing a two-year opportunity to engage in applied conservation science research. Over their term, the La Fetra PCI fellow will collect, analyze and synthesize data on endangered, threatened and special status plant and animal species, as well as threatened natural communities and ecosystems, to inform conservation strategies. Candidates with a background in coastal ecology, biodiversity, freshwater ecology, conservation technology, data science, historical human ecology and climate change are invited to apply through our applicant portal or to check out the posting on LinkedIn.

Collaborations

In 2022, PCI offered summer internships and capstone projects to a select group of graduate student researchers from the UCSB Bren School. These students recently completed projects exploring the behaviors of coastal carnivores and identifying conservation priorities along the Gaviota Coast. Additionally, two communications projects were completed by Bren School students focusing on “Discoveries at Dangermond Preserve” and “Carnivores at the Coast.”

Conservation Technology

Last year, we continued to expand our preserve monitoring network by deploying several new technologies. On the operations front we deployed sensors to monitor water tank levels and to alert when problems in the system arise, saving two precious resources— water and our own staff time and capacity. We continue to find ways to increase our onsite awareness as well as generate data to help us answer and anticipate key management questions. Recently, this includes the addition of GPS trackers on preserve vehicles. Gathering information on our vehicle use patterns helps unveil the spatial and temporal use patterns on the preserve, enabling better decision making and planning. These tools and many others develop a more robust picture of our onsite operations and enable us to better steward the land.

In the research and monitoring arena we installed 14 additional wildlife cameras on the coast including five live-streaming networked cameras, giving an instantaneous view of wildlife behavior and dynamics at the coastal-marine nexus. Take a look at this video for a view into how this type of technology is changing the biosecurity game at Santa Cruz Island, and visit this website to learn more about the research behind the cameras.

The Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve (3:14) Experience the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve through the eyes of our scientists at The Nature Conservancy. From large carnivore research to archaeology, the advances being made here are leading the scientific community across the globe.

Moving toward our goal of creating a water budget for the Jalama Watershed, we increased our number of groundwater sensors in the Jalama Creek watershed to a total of 19—these sensors are giving us a look at groundwater level, temperatures and, in conjunction with data from nearby weather stations, the ability to understand and estimate groundwater infiltration rates. This understanding of the water cycle, including critical water transport pathways, will be invaluable for predicting species responses to changing precipitation regimes and water availability. This growing instrumentation network is bookended with investment in cloud storage and visualization platforms, as well as analytical tools that will provide the baseline information needed to springboard even more science and conservation at the preserve.

If you are ready to submit your research data or want to see published research data from nearby, check out our Dangermond Preserve Research Repository for Data Discovery (R2D2).

Four people stand together on a bluff overlooking the ocean at Dangermond Preserve in California.
DP Wildlife Camera set up L-R: Sara Beery (CalTech-Google), Nathaniel Rindlaub (TNC), Jinsu Elhance (TNC) and Kelly Easterday (TNC) set up wireless live-streaming wildlife cameras at Dangermond. © Elizabeth Hiroyasu/TNC

We are grateful for your support of PCI’s mission to harness the power of science and technology for conservation. As we begin a new year, we can reflect on the progress we’ve made and the dynamic research community we are building together. While these biannual newsletters are a great way to provide updates, we can’t wait to be together again. PCI is partnering with UCSB Geography to host our inaugural Point Conception Institute Science Symposium on the UCSB campus in mid-March. We look forward to gathering our research community and continue learning from each other.

Cheers,

Mark

Media & Publications 

In Press

  • Genua, L., Anderson, B.C., Bowen, M., Ives, G., Liu, O., Paschos, T., Butterfield, H.S., Easterday, K., Reynolds, M., Thorne, J.H., Spatial patterns of vegetation change in a fire-suppressed coastal California Landscape. In press at Madrono.

Presentations

  • Chadwick, K.D., Brodrick, P.G. Easterday, K., Reynolds, M.D., Davis, F.W., Seeing more than green: the value of VSWIR data for conservation and phenology. American Geophysical Union meeting, 2023.

Manuscripts

  • Robinette, D., J. Howar, M.L. Elliott, Jahncke, J., and M.D. Reynolds. Assessing physical, biological, and human use attributes affecting shorebird abundance and richness on sandy beaches in southern and central California, USA. Submitted to Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
  • Easterday, K., Reynolds, M.D., Davis, F.W., Dana Chadwick, K.D., et al. authors and order TBD. Impact and Applications of Hyperspectral Data for Conservation and Land Management: a case study of AVIRIS-NG SHIFT. In prep for Ecosphere
  • Chadwick, K. D., Davis, F., Miner, K., Pavlick, R., Reynolds, M. et al. Unlocking Ecological Insights from Subseasonal Visible-to-Shortwave Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy: The SBG High Frequency Time Series (SHIFT) Campaign. In prep for Ecosphere

Recent Media

Past Media

 

Project Title

Institution

Principal Investigator/Point
of Contact

 
 

Combining Historical Ecology with New Tools to Understand Climate Effects on Species Distributions

University of California,
Santa Barbara

Steve Gaines                                    
 

Developing and Implementing Novel Tools for Assessing Riparian Ecosystem Resilience

University of California,
Santa Barbara

Kelly Caylor  
 

Tracking Groundwater and Surface Water at Dangermond Preserve

University of California, Santa Barbara

Scott Jasechko

 
 

Human Settlement and Land Use at Point Conception, California

Smithsonian Institution

Torben Rick

 
 

Environmental Change and Remote Sensing

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dave Schimel

 
 

Coastal Carnivore Conservation

University of California, Santa Barbara

Rae Wynn-Grant

 
 

Implementation of a Real-Time Acoustic Receiver Buoy off Government Point to Detect Tagged White Sharks in Proximity to New Seal Rookeries

Cal State University, Long Beach

Christopher Lowe

 
 

Rocky Intertidal Biodiversity Surveys

University of California, Santa Cruz

Pete Raimondi

 
 

Biodiversity Assessment and Characterization of Sandy Beach Ecosystems

Marine Science Institute

Jenifer Dugan

 
 

eDNA in Jalama Creek

University of California, Los Angeles

Maura Palacios Mejia

 
 

Gaviota Tarplant Genetic Study

Dudek

Jake Marcon

 
 

Surveys for and Collection of Buckwheat Blue Butterflies (Euphilotes sp.)

ManTech International Corporation

Alice Abela

 
 

Gaviota Tarplant: Protecting Rare Plants from Invasive Plants

California Invasive Plant Council

Jutta Burger

 
 

Investigating Fire and Grazing Effects on Historical Vegetation Fluxes in the Dangermond Preserve

University of California, Santa Barbara

Max Moritz

 
 

Beach Ecosystem and Shorebird Monitoring

Point Blue Conservation Science

Dan Robinette

 
 

Mapping and Dating Marine Terraces from Pt. Conception to Pt. Sal to Evaluate Rates and Patterns of Coastal Uplift and Fault Hazards

Cal State University, Long Beach

Nate Onderdonk

 
 

Seabird Movement and Foraging at Dangermond Preserve

The Nature Conservancy

Mark Reynolds
   
 

Survey and Collection of Eriodictyon capitatum and habitat suitability for Dithyrea maritima

Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens

Matt Guillams

 
 

Large Wave Warning System (LAWWS)

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder

Lincoln Pitcher

 
 

Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count

Xerces Society

Charis van der Heide

 
 

Strontium Isotope Ecology at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve

University of California, Santa Barbara

Brian Holguin

 
 

A Novel Remote Camera System that Will Improve Response to Oiled Amphibians and Reptiles

University of California, Santa Barbara

Christopher Evelyn

 
 

Documentation of Dangermond Preserve Preservation and Conservation

University of California, Santa Barbara

Hank Pitcher

 
 

Biodiversity Assessment and Characterization of Beach Ecosystems

University of California, Santa Barbara

Jenny Dugan

 
 

Regional Herpetofauna Biodiversity Assessment

University of California, Santa Barbara

Christopher Evelyn

 
 

Population Genomics of Western Pond Turtle, Emys (Actinemys) pallida at Dangermond Preserve

University of California, Los Angeles

Brad Shaffer

 
 

Managing the Impacts of Environmental Education in Protected Areas: A Case Study at the Dangermond Preserve

University of California, Santa Barbara

Tess Hooper

 
 

Meadowlark Song Study

Unaffiliated

Elihu Gevirtz

 
 

Climate Sensitivity and Source Water Use by Riparian Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems in Coastal California

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

John Stella

 
 

Circulation of Ticks and Tick-borne Pathogens at Dangermond

University of California, Santa Barbara

Cherie Briggs

 
 

Dynamic Restoration of a Rare Headland Bypass Coastal Dune System, Point Conception, California

Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara

Madison Heffentrager

 
 

Paleontological Reconnaissance of the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC)

Dr. Austin Hendy

 
 

sUAS Surveys for AVIRIS SHIFT Campaign

University of California, Santa Barbara

Jordan Snyder

 
 

Scaling Hydraulic Traits: SHIFT Campaign Research

UCLA

Elsa Ordway

 
 

Assessment of Fairy Shrimp on Dangermond Preserve

TNC

Elizabeth Hiroyasu

 
 

DNA Metabarcoding and Isotopic Analysis of Wild Pig (Sus scrofa) Scat to Determine Diet Composition and Movement at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve

TNC

Elizabeth Hiroyasu

 
 

Dangermond Environmental DNA and Isotopes: Restoration and Historical Ecology

TNC

Sabrina Shirazi

 
 

CCC Inland Roads Restoration Project

TNC

Laura Riege

 
 

CCC Cojo Marine Terminal Restoration Project

TNC

Laura Riege

 
 

CCC Percos Restoration Project

TNC

Laura Riege

 
 

Marine Protected Area Boundary Mapping

MPA Collaborative Network

Calla Allison

 
 

CCC Jalachichi Ponds Restoration Project

TNC

Laura Riege

 
 

CCC Iceplant Habitat Enhancement

TNC

Laura Riege

 
 

CCC Oaks Mitigation Restoration Project

TNC

Laura Riege

 
 

Pacific Off-Shore Bat Activity

USGS

Bethany Schulze

 
 

Pismo Clam Monitoring

Cal-Poly SLO

Benjamin Ruttenberg

   
 

Videography-Photography Offshore of Point Conception to Cojo Anchorage

NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries West Coast Regional Office

Robert Schwemmer

   
 

NASA/TNC/UCNRS AVIRIS Field Campaign

TNC

Mark Reynolds

   
 

SFEI Historical Ecology of Dangermond Preserve

TNC

Kelly Easterday

   
 

Marine to Terrestrial Resource Subsidy Use on the Gaviota Coast

University of California Santa Barbara Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

Hillary Young

   
 

Surveys of Stream and Riparian Health

University of California, Santa Barbara

Scott Cooper

   
 

Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of a Contemporary Range Expansion

Bodega Marine Laboratory

Samuel Walkes

   
 

Chaparral and Shrubland Prescribed Fire Ecology

University of California, Davis

Hannah Etchells

   
 

Monitoring of Prescribed Fire Effects on Coast Live Oaks

University of California, Santa Barbara

Ryan Fass

   
 

Prescribed Fire Air Quality Effects

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Michael Morrison

   
 

Gaviota Tarplant Populations

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Mark Elvin

   
 

Ecological Impacts of Prescribed Fire

University of California, Santa Barbara

Shane Dewees

   
 

Anthropology of Prescribed Fire

University of California, Santa Barbara

Jordan Thomas

   
 

Jalama Creek Watershed Assessment

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Kyle Evans

   
 

Wildlife Community Resilience to Wildfire

UCSB Bren School

Ruth Oliver

   
 

Tech-enabled Species Distribution Assessment

Yale University

Walter Jetz