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UCSB Recieves National Science Foundation Funding For Research

by × on January 22, 2013 at 12:17 pm × 0 comments

Two UCSB research teams have received multimillion dollar long-term research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund their studies of kelp forests and coral reefs along the Santa Barbara coast. The Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research (SBC LTER) and the Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological [...]

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UCSB Scientists Conduct Critical Research on Kelp

by × on May 31, 2011 at 1:39 am × 2 comments

UCSB scientists from the Earth Research Institute and Marine Science Institute recently discovered a new method to analyze fluctuations in giant kelp biomass in the Santa Barbara Channel that enables them to track changes in the kelp populations spatially and temporally.