The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis maintains a responsibility for education and outreach. As part of this effort, the Center recently became allied with the Los Marineros , a program started by the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary program in 1987 and now managed by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History . The Los Marineros program serves as the core science curriculum for the 5th grade classes of the Santa Barbara School District.
Educational activities focus on marine ecology, geology, policy and history.
During each month of the school year, students in the program measure and assay a variety of physical and biological features of the ocean and its adjacent land. The Center assists the students in gathering the data, and help analyze and portray the information gathered. It is possible for students in the Los Marineros program to enter data through this site, and these data will be compiled, synthesized and presented in a manner useful to educators at both the local and global level.