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.
UCSB’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 (KIN) program. KIN 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 (NCOS). NCOS provides public access to hundreds of daily visitors, educational programming for both campus and the broader K-12 communities, and has an ambitious vision of restoring ecological function, hydrology, native plants, and rare species habitat 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/
