Natural Reserve System

For all media inquiries, press and photo releases please contact Laurie Cussalli, Business Officer of the UCSB NRS, lcussalli@ucsb.edu or (805)893-4127.

NRS News and Highlights

• Mining coastal network data to benefit communities
  May 15, 2023
  A project funded by a CA Climate Action grant will help coastal communities forecast climate change impacts by utilizing environmental data collected by a network of UC Natural Reserves and nearby monitored sites.
• Even Sonoran Desert plants aren’t immune to climate change
  May 4, 2023
  Supposedly drought-tolerant Sonoran Desert species hit their breaking points.
• Elephant seals sleep while diving far below the ocean surface
  April 21, 2023
  Brainwave patterns show elephant seals sleep 2 hours per day while diving for months at sea, rivaling the record for the least sleep among mammals.
• UC’s wild, wonderful natural reserves
  April 20, 2023
  Steve Monfort, executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System, shares why biodiversity is the key to our future and how UC’s reserves are its best-kept secret.
• Small brine flies have big impacts on salt lakes
  April 17, 2023
  Productivity of brine flies is tied to overall health of salt lake ecosystems; both are in decline.