We saw some really neat efforts to map oil spills and explore impacts associated with spills in spatially-explicit ways at last summer’s ESRI Users Conference in San Diego. This very brief rundown of what was on display shows how the science of documenting oil spill impacts has embraced geospatial science. GIS is no longer a secondary concern. Rather, it… Read more »
The current Solimar Beach Fire raging north of the City of Ventura is threatening numerous oil drilling and storage areas adjacent to Pacific Coast Highway along the Rincon coast of northwestern Ventura/southeastern Santa Barbara County. 12-28-15 23:00 Update: As of 17:00, Ventura County Fire is reporting 100% containment with only about 70 personnel on the… Read more »
I found out that Dr. Clare Steele and I were awarded the WRPI-USDA Grant for the upcoming semester! The goals of the USDA and regional Watershed Resources and Policy Management is to promote students in real-scientific work. I am really excited to be able…
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Over the break I am finally able to catch up on all my dissections and sand processing. Currently I have gathered over 200 sand crabs from up and down the coast of California to test for microplastics as well as sand samples from each location. This will be a busy winter break!
Finished calibrating the sonde so we decided to do some trial data collection. Here is Paul, Jeyla, and I deploying Adelaide in Calleguas Creek via Cam Park.
Trying to get people to agree on a date and time to meet is hard to get down. Even just a conference call is hard to do. Right now Cause Hanna, Erika, Chris and I are trying to get s conference call going.
This morning Dorothy, Patrick, and I set up a booth at the Lakey Peterson’s Keiki Bowl surf contest put on by the Surf Happens Foundation to raise awareness about the important health of sandy beach ecosystems and the dangers of plastic pollution. Kids loved filtering sand and looking through our field microscope set up for them … [Read more…]
Lakey Peterson Bowl Today part our our sandy beach team trekked up to Santa Barbara’s Leadbetter Beach for the second annual Lakey Peterson Keiki Bowl/Leadbetter Classic. This mix between surf competition and camp is a collaboration between pro surfer Lakey Peterson, Santa Barbara surf school Surf Happens, and the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation. In addition to… Read more »
Lipstick on a Pig? It appears to be no coincidence that ExxonMobil has recently released a new series of beautiful and very slick TV and online ads implying that they are all about innovation and very interested in alternative energies. (Their most recent releases are below:) Reality is far from the images portrayed in this… Read more »
Check out the newly announced XPRIZE, unveiled yesterday in San Francisco: The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE seeks to usher in a new era of deep exploration of the oceans. This will both help with/foster both basic and applied research. Not the least of which will be to boost our understanding of baseline conditions before subsequent impacts from […]
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