@LterSbc

Long term ecological research on southern California kelp forests

sbclter.msi.ucsb.edu
Joined October 2020
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How Marine Science Institute researchers helped solve the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill news.ucsb.edu/2024/021488/ho…

How Marine Science Institute researchers helped solve the 2021 Huntington Beach oil spill

MSI's Mark Page's expertise was key to determining when the oil pipe had been compromised

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Sharing our new Conservation Biology paper on responses of surf zone fish to California MPAs @OPC_California @CASeaGrant @USLTER @LterSbc @NSF conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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Looking forward to coastal convos @CERF_CAERS conference tomorrow @MLMLmarinesci. Interested in coastal dunes? Make sure you swing by my poster 👇 🏖️ ⏳
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To enable more accurate predictions about sea level rise, Dr. Kyle Emery is piloting a high-accuracy satellite imagery workflow using #drones, #GNSS, & #GIS. Discover how Emery and his team are tracking California's coastal changes: ow.ly/lpvP50QHke4 #drone
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New shoreline change monitoring tool installed at long term SBC beach site
SB Kelp Watch@SBKelpWatch10 Apr 2024
UC Santa Barbara researchers launch CoastSnap, citizen science initiative to monitor coastal changes news.ucsb.edu/2024/021425/uc…

UC Santa Barbara researchers launch CoastSnap, citizen science initiative to monitor coastal changes

UC Santa Barbara researchers launch CoastSnap, citizen science initiative to monitor coastal changes

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I appreciate @LterSbc for providing such amazing data and many more supports and insightful comments by co-authors, particularly from @MaxCastorani and lab colleagues in @uvaevsc!
Maowei Liang@maowei_liang25 Mar 2024
New paper alert in @ESAEcology, we found that changes in multi-scale diversity-stability relationship of oceanic organisms are also associated with the extreme climate events, e.g. the heatwave. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

A marine heatwave changes the stabilizing effects of biodiversity in kelp forests

Biodiversity can stabilize ecological communities through biological insurance, but climate and other environmental changes may disrupt this process via simultaneous ecosystem destabilization and...

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The choreography of cross-ecosystem subsidies that connect the kelp forest with the beach @NSF @USLTER @ucsantabarbara news.ucsb.edu/2024/021317/ch…

The choreography of cross-ecosystem subsidies that connects the kelp forest to the beach

Researchers investigate how the rise and fall in the abundance of kelp

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Common on SBC reefs, the vermetid "worm" snail Thylacodes squamigerus, was featured in KQED's Deep Look. Check it out! kqed.org/science/1983180/thi…

This Snail Goes Fishing With a Net Made of Slime | KQED

Most of the sea snails in a tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of:...

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Somehow, I defend my dissertation and deliver my exit seminar next week. Wednesday 8/30 @ 12pm pacific. Reach out if you want the Zoom link!
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Is climate change amplifying wave size on the Central Coast? UCSB and SBC oceanographer Libe Washburn weighs in kcbx.org/environment-and-ene… @USLTER @NSF @ucsantabarbara

Is climate change amplifying wave size on the Central Coast? UCSB oceanographer weighs in

KCBX’s Amanda Wernik spoke with Oceanographer and Professor at the UC Santa Barbara Marine Science Institute Libe Washburn about how climate change is affecting waves here on the Central Coast.

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Could restoring dunes protect our coastlines? kclu.org/2023-08-09/could-re… @USLTER @ucsantabarbara @brenschool

Could restoring dunes protect our coastlines?

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara think so.

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Congrats to Holly Moeller @mixotrophe, Asst Professor @ucsantabarbara, elected as an Early Career Fellow for her dedication to math literacy & her innovative use of mathematical models & empirical methods revealing how acquired metabolism evolves & shapes ecosystems #ESA2023
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New paper by SBC student Karina Johnston explores dune restoration as an approach to enhance resilience to sea level rise on an urban Southern California beach @USLTER @NSF news.ucsb.edu/2023/021127/du…

Dune restoration could increase the resilience of Southern California's urban beaches to sea level...

A project to rewild a section of Santa Monica Beach is a potential nature-based approach toward protecting it from sea-level rise

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New paper from an LTER synthesis group @NSF @USLTER
Ecology@ESAEcology10 Jul 2023
New in @ESAEcology: Diversity-stability relationships across organism groups and ecosystem types become decoupled across spatial scales doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4136 With #OpenData in @edigotdata #Metacommunities #Synchrony #Stability #Biodiversity #NSFFunded @NSF
Diversity–stability relationships for aggregate and compositional variability at the metacommunity scale, in relation to the temporal average of regional gamma-diversity (a-b), the temporal average of spatial beta-diversity (c-d), and the temporal average of mean alpha-diversity (e-f)

ALT Diversity–stability relationships for aggregate and compositional variability at the metacommunity scale, in relation to the temporal average of regional gamma-diversity (a-b), the temporal average of spatial beta-diversity (c-d), and the temporal average of mean alpha-diversity (e-f)

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Exploring the potential for dune restoration on an urban beach @USLTER @NSF @ucsantabarbara @UCLA
Kyle Emery@K_Emery_201228 Jun 2023
This new paper led by Karina Johnston was a really fun project where we evaluated the potential for beach restoration on Santa Monica Beach, which has been groomed for over 70 years. @UCLA @ucsantabarbara @LterSbc frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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SBC student Sam Bogan leads new paper on epigenetic responses in sea urchins @granogan @nsf @USLTER bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…

Associations between DNA methylation and gene regulation depend on chromatin accessibility during...

BMC Biology - Epigenetic processes are proposed to be a mechanism regulating gene expression during phenotypic plasticity. However, environmentally induced changes in DNA methylation exhibit...

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Sam Bogan@granogan26 Jun 2023
🥳New paper🥳 Changes in DNA methylation across environments are often uncorrelated w/ expression in animals We find that differential methylation's effect on expression depends on chromatin accessibility during plastic responses to ecological stress: tinyurl.com/325tucr5
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SBC student, Karina Johnston, will present on dune restoration & coastal resilience at next week's AdaptLA Meeting bit.ly/AdaptLA, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 11 am-12 pm PT. Register here usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/S… @USLTER @NSF @USCSeaGrant @ucsantabarbara
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NSF invites you to join its "Frontiers in Ocean Sciences Symposium" on June 22 to hear presentations by four top #NSFfunded ocean scientists, followed by an alumni panel of prior symposium presenters. Register today: bit.ly/46d7hmy #Oceansmonth
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ALT Promotional graphic for NSF's Frontiers in Ocean Sciences Symposium

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Congratulations to Holly Moeller @mixotrophe on her @NSF CAREER award investigating the role of mixotrophs, organisms that can both eat and photosynthesize news.ucsb.edu/2023/021028/bi…

Biologist Holly Moeller investigates the role of mixotrophs, organisms that can both eat and...

UC Santa Barbara's Holly Moeller receives an award to investigate the role of organisms that can both eat and photosynthesize

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