Global Distribution of Research at CSUN CSB
Faculty and students at CSUN are engaged in pure and applied research in a great diversity of habitats and ecosystems around the globe. Marine research occurs in the Hawaiian Reefs, Caribbean Reefs (Jamaica, Virgin Islands), Gulf of Maine, and locally here in California with research vessels docked at San Pedro and Santa Catalina Island. Terrestrial research programs occur throughout South America, the southern Canadian Rockies, Yukon Territory, Canada and much of California including the Carrizo Plain National Monument, Santa Catalina Island, Santa Monica Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert and the Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx.
Stations and Sites associated with members of the CSB
- Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
- Carrizo Plain National Monument (St. Luis Obispo County, California - Bureau of Land Management)
- Desert Studies Center (Zzyzx east of Barstow)
- Friday Harbor (University of Washington)
- Hopkins Marine Station (Stanford University)
- Kananaskis Field Stations ( University of Calgary, Alberta Canada)
- Kluane Lake Research Station (Yukon Territory, Canada) of the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Alberta Canada
- Moorea Coral Reef LTER (French Polynesia)
- Rocky Mountain Biological Lab (Gunnison County)
- Sedgewick Reserve (Santa Barbara County, California) of UC reserve system
- Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California) - National Parks Service
- Southern California Marine Institute
- Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve of UC reserve system
- Sweeney Desert Mountains Research Center
- Valentine Reserve (eastern Sierra Nevada) of UC reserve system
- White Mountains Research Station of UC reserve system
- Wrigley Marine Science Center (Santa Catalina Island)