The UC SCIR field station facilitates access to these resources. The complex also contains a library and conference room, as well as modest working space, laboratory and computer equipment, reference collections, and library materials. A GIS database center is being developed. As a result of downsizing operations on Santa Cruz Island, the U. S. Navy ceased their free boat transportation support to and from the island effective December 31, 1996. This truly was the end of an era.
Most travel is now via commercial air or boat charter.
This will enable us to provide travel stipends to UC graduate and undergraduate students. T he Nature Conservancy's annual national workshop on ecological burning was held on Santa Cruz Island from November 5 to 13, 1996. Conducted by TNC's Fire Management and Research Program of the Tall Timbers Research Station in Tallahassee Florida, the program was jointly hosted by TNC's Santa Cruz Island Preserve, UC NRS Santa Cruz Island Reserve, and Channel Islands National Park. The 36 participants included TNC and UC SCIR staff, as well as many individuals from a diversity of organizations and agencies from around the country. Dr. Lyndal Laughrin, the UC SCIR reserve director, served as one of the resource personnel for the workshop.