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UCSB’s Natural Reserve System

Protect Our Environment

The 41-site University of California Natural Reserve System was founded in 1965 to provide natural landscapes for research, education, and public service. These unique living laboratories are places for understanding our natural world today and what environmental change may mean for our future.

UC Santa Barbara manages seven of these Reserves, which include Valentine Camp Reserve and the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory — both located in Mammoth Lakes — the Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve in Cambria, the Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Sedgwick Reserve in the Santa Ynez Valley, the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, and Coal Oil Point Reserve on UCSB’s West Campus.

Please join us by supporting research, university-level education, and land stewardship at our Reserves as we celebrate Give Day! Your gift truly makes a difference.

$1,000,000

Our Final Challenge: One Million to Make a Difference

Wow! A tremendous thank you to Trustee David Henke '78. His generous support will establish a new endowed chair in Computer Science and will also support the MESA Successful Transition Program.

1,625 / 1,625 Gifts

Completed

Success!

Challenge gift from Sara Miller McCune H'05

Thank you to Sara Miller McCune H'05 for her generous $500,000 gift to campus to support the UCSB Library, Arts & Lectures, the Social Sciences, and the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. Join her in celebrating those who help us understand the world by making a gift to any area of campus.

Completed

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Matching Gift #4 from Jordan '83 and Christine Kaplan

That match disappeared faster than we could say "Go Gauchos!" Thank you, Jordan '83 and Christine, and everyone who joined them to raise $5,000!

$5,000 MATCHED

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Matching Gift from Mike Stewart '91

We did it! Thanks to Mike Stewart '91, we raised $2,500 for our campus by the sea.

$2,500 MATCHED

Completed

Participating Groups

Campus Excellence Bren School College of Creative Studies College of Engineering Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Graduate Division Humanities and Fine Arts Sciences Social Sciences Research Institutes & Initiatives Student Affairs Recreation Library Education Abroad Program Athletics Arts & Lectures Alumni Affairs Campus & Community Initiatives

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