UC Santa Barbara Geography / Earth Gate / Gateways

Oceans

• Water Mass Variability, Nutrients, Sediments, and Phytoplankton Pigment Concentrations in the Santa Barbara Channel
• Impacts of Large El Nino Driven Storms on the California Coastal Environment
• Long-Term Ecological Research on the Antarctic Marine Ecosystem
• Tectonic Deformation of the Seafloor and its Relation to Segmentation
• Plooms and Blooms from Space
• A Near Bottom Photo/Acoustic Survey Using ARGO II
• Studies on the Physiological Ecology of Hydrothermal Vent Chemoautotrophic Symbioses
• The Bermuda Testbed Mooring Program
  The Bermuda Testbed Mooring Program provides the oceanographic community with a deep-water platform for developing, testing, calibrating, and intercomparing instruments which can obtain long-term data sets.
• Arabian Sea Study
• Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps
• Plumes and Blooms: Studying the color of the Santa Barbara Channel
• Radar Mapping of Surface Currents
  This research uses HF radar to map ocean surface currents off of the Central California coast, and then uses the ocean current information to interpret changes in the populations of marine species
• Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program
  LTER studies pack ice in Antarctica - which may be a major physical factor affecting the structure and function of polar biota.
• The Coastal Mixing and Optics Project
  This experiment was designed to examine the mixing of ocean water on a continental shelf and the effects of mixing on water column optical properties.
• Marine Virtual Explorer - MARVE CDROM
  A Virtual Reality Tour of the East Pacific Rise by Dr. Charles Weiland and Dr. William Prother.