UC Santa Barbara Geography / Earth Gate / Gateways

Human Impact

• Conservation Planning and Ecosystem Management in the Sierra Nevada
• Storm Water Runoff in Santa Monica Bay: Dispersion and Mixing of Surface Plumes in the Coastal Ocean
• Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project
• Santa Barbara Coastal Ecosystem
  Although there has been increasing concern about the impacts of human activities on coastal watersheds and nearshore marine environments, there have been few long-term studies of linkages among oceanic, reef, wetland, stream, and terrestrial habitats.
• Earth Education Online
• Analysis of long-term litter decomposition experiments: Synthesis at the site, regional, and global levels
• An ecological-economic analysis of pest-control services: The Brazilian Free-tailed Bat as a model
• Global Change Impacts on Landscape Fires
• Development of Tools for the Practical Design of Marine Reserves
• A dynamic integrated model of land use, carbon flows and carbon sequestration supply in Costa Rica
  An extension of working group and postdoc.
• Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Mammalian Community Structure: The Effect of Climate Change
• Managing Natural Areas: How Do We Select Among Land Management Options?