Housing and Development Newsletter Reineman has conducted research on community access to the beach and Patsch specializes in coastal geology and the changing shape of the shore, so the scientists combined their interests to develop the project. The team also includes Phillip King, San Francisco State University associate professor of economics; professor Nina Roberts, director of the San Francisco State University Department of Recreation, Parks & Tourism; and Charles Lester, director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center in the Marine Science Institute at UCSB. Student and faculty researchers will look at factors such as who has access to the beach, who is prevented from going to the beach and why, and what’s happening with rising sea level along what’s known as the Santa Barbara Littoral Cell, extending 144 miles from the mouth of the Santa Maria River to the Mugu Submarine Canyon.