COAL OIL POINT RESERVE

University of California, Santa Barbara
Natural Reserve System

• Submit an online application to bring a class to the reserve (choose Class Use Form)

• Regulations for class use

  Class projects are permitted in the designated areas shown in the map below. Exceptions can be made with special permission from the reserve director. Students from a lab class or interns must submit a separate Research Application (click the online application above and close Research Use Form)

Click on the map for a larger view

• Facilities

  There is one portable toilet on the reserve at the parking area.

• Parking

  A Special West Campus parking permit is required at the parking lot 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Please email the Reserve Director (sandoval@lifesci.ucsb.edu) to obtain permission for West Campus permits. The permits will then be available to be picked up at the UCSB parking service office (near Harder Stadium)

Permits: $3.00 per car/per day (no charge if you have a valid UCSB parking sticker).

Please encourage car pooling.

• Link to Bibliographic data base

  UC NRS System-Wide Bibliography

• Class project ideas

  1- Comparison of insect diversity in different aquatic communities
  2- Diversity of invertebrates and rock size in the intertidal
  3- Sandy Beach-succession of organisms in Kelp
  4- Salt Marsh- diversity of insects on different host plants
  5- Diversity and terrestrial insect collection of various habitats
  6- Interaction between coyote bush and chrysomelids
  7- Monarch butterfly mating behavior
  8- Snowy Plovers foraging behavior.
  9- Flower color and pollination by insects (experimental and field)
  10- Habitat preference of Globose Dune beetle (Coelus globosus)
  11- Seedling survival:and distance from dune
  12- Dune stability on vegetated and unvegetated areas
  13- Visitation rates of different flower colors of sand verbena
  14- Resource (shell) limitation for hermit crabs
  15- Size distribution of beach hoppers on kelp of different ages