Santa Barbara Coastal LTER

Santa Barbara, California

Institutional affiliations: Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara; Institute for Computational Earth System Science, UC Santa Barbara; Donald School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara; Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara.

Principal biome/main communities: semi-arid coastal zone / giant kelp forests, coastal mountians, coastal oceans, salt marsh, streams, chaparral 

Research topics: Effects of land use on the processing and transport of nutrients and carbon to the coastal ocean. Role of runoff and oceanic forcing in structuring kelp forest communities. Controls on reef food webs by nutrients and predation. 

Site Coordinates:   34 N, 119 W