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The Cheadle Center
A Living Laboratory

The UC Santa Barbara Vernon and Mary Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration preserves our valuable natural history, connects the community to our local environment, and enhances our natural heritage through research, restoration, education, and conservation.

 

UC Santa Barbara’s Natural History Collections at the Cheadle Center are biodiversity libraries that preserve organisms and information about creatures and their lives. These records provide researchers a glimpse of our past so that we can better understand the effects of things like climate change, invasive species, and human impact on the environment. 

 

The Cheadle Center is committed to educational outreach, including the award-winning Kids in Nature program. Kids in Nature trains the next generation of environmental educators who, in turn, introduce hundreds of local elementary students to the natural world through hands-on outdoor experiences.

 

The Cheadle Center strives to protect and preserve important species and habitats through restoration initiatives like North Campus Open Space, which provides public access to hundreds of daily visitors, educational programming for both campus and the broader K-12 communities. Here, we realize our ambitious vision to restore ecological function, hydrology, native plants, and rare species habitats of the former upper arms of Devereux Slough.

 

Your philanthropic investment in the UC Santa Barbara Cheadle Center will create opportunities for research and education for current and future generations through the stewardship and restoration of our remarkable natural environment. 

 

Please consider making a difference today!

 

Learn more at https://www.ccber.ucsb.edu/

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Kaplan Sprint #3
It's been the most exciting Give Day yet thanks to our competitive community! Congratulations to the top ten funds, and a big thank you to Christine and Jordan '83 Kaplan for their creative challenge!
Rank Prize Area Donors
1 $2,000 Women's Volleyball 59
2 $1,750 Men's Swimming 43
3 $1,500 Men's Water Polo 37
4 $1,250 Women's Rugby Sport Club 29
5 $1,000 Women's Tennis 23
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Research Institutes and Initiatives
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Rank Area Gifts
1 KITP Career Development Fund 24
2 The REEF (Research Experience & Education Facility) 9
3 Santa Cruz Island 6
4 Natural Reserve System (General) 6
5 Coal Oil Point Reserve 3
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Give Day 2025
See how your area is doing!
Rank Area Gifts
1 Athletics 1,556
2 Campus Excellence 566
3 Humanities and Fine Arts 342
4 Recreation 305
5 Social Sciences 288
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