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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.
Now Charles Lester, former executive director of the California Coastal Commission, is revitalizing UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center (OCPC) to carry forward work on pressing coastal management issues, from the protection of public shoreline access to the challenge of community adaptation to sea level rise. Lester has spent the past two-and-a-half years reframing the center, which has been inactive since 2010. With $680,000 in funding from two large grants on the way, he’s poised to truly begin work.
California has earned a reputation for successfully managing coastal resources, development and public access on both sides of the surf. The state’s fishery management and network of marine protected areas have served as a model worldwide. Its coastal management program, nearly fifty years old, is renowned for regulating growth and development and protecting the public’s right to access the beach. Nonetheless, California now faces new issues that threaten to und