I joined a group of CI ESRM students and Professor O’Hirok at the annual Association of American Geographers conference last week. I presented a poster on my capstone research during a poster session titled “Challenges of the Anthropocene”. My poster was received well although it was focused on coastal ecology and the conference’s focus was […]
As you know, I have finished all of my sampling for my thesis research and I am almost finished analyzing all of the data. During spring break, I began a spring sampling of a few of our sandy beaches to help the project ACCESO summer research institute gather data before summer research begins. I took […]
I have started to analyze the data from all of my field collection. So far, I have found that beach grooming significantly reduces sand crab population density. I have also found that the change in season has coincided with the reduction in invertebrate species richness. I hope further data analysis will reveal more significant relationships […]
Over the pas week, I finished my beach data collection at Santa Clara River Mouth and Goleta Beach County Park with the help of a few ESRM 100 students. Santa Clara River Mouth’s beach has been wiped clean of any invertebrate life, most likely due to the river breach and large swell conditions. Goleta Beach […]
The sandy beach research is coming along well so far. Over winter break, I was able to revisit my twelve beach sites from Santa Monica to Refugio State Beach. I have found that the Nothern Ventura County and Santa Barbara County beaches have higher species richness and heterogeneity than do beaches further south. I have […]
I have been quite busy this semester collecting data for my capstone project. I have sampled at multiple sandy beaches ranging from Santa Barbara to Malibu and I have found that Refugio, Solimar, and Rincon beaches have the highest species richness and…
Sandy Beach research is the bomb
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