Concurrent Field Trips
CHESC will be offering almost 14 concurrent field trips highlighting best practices on campus and in the local community.
San Clemente Storm Management System
The 5.4-acre San Clemente Graduate Student Housing Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Project began in 2006. Funded by the UCSB Housing and Residential Services Department, the project uses an innovative Stormwater Management System (SMS) to provide on-site biofiltration and treatment of 100% of storm and irrigation water from the adjacent 11.5-acre housing site. In addition to the SMS, the Project includes conservation and enhancement of the rare California native southern tarplant (Centromadia parryi ssp. australis) and several coastal habitats.
Docent: Lisa Stratton
Bird Watching
Come bird watch around campus as we look for shorebirds by the lagoon, raptors in the windrows and passerine birds visiting our diverse campus flora. You never know what we?ll find!
Docent: Bryan Apple
Campus Lagoon Tour
The Campus Lagoon includes several large restoration projects in and around the lagoon including the creation of salt marsh islands and shallow areas for shorebirds, restoration of more than 6 acres of coastal sage scrub, coast live oak woodland and freshwater wetland habitats, and restoration of 2 acres of sand dune habitat. Current activities include enhancing water quality by creating freshwater wetlands and continued restoration of sand dunes, coastal sage scrub and coast live oak woodland.
Docent: Darwin Richardson
LED Lighting for Live Event Venues: A Tour of UCSB Isla Vista Theater
During it's renovation in the 1990's Isla Vista Theater had a 100amp power disconnect installed to power a lighting dimmer pack housing 12- 2.4Kw dimmers. This gave the facility control of 20- 1000watt fixtures with which to light events. In 2012 The Green Initiative Fund granted the purchase of LED fixtures which not only greatly expanded the lighting capabilities of the venue but did it while utilizing a power draw within the limits of a single 20 amp circuit.
Docent: Erik Moore, Senior Public Events Manager, Instructional Development, UC Santa Barbara
Manzanita Village - Bioswale/Vernal Pool Tour
The Manzanita Village Restoration Project began in August of 2002 when the California Coastal Commission required restoration of 0.86 acres of wetlands as mitigation for impacts to wetland buffers at the project site. The UCSB Housing and Residential Services Department provided funding for upland native grassland habitat restoration surrounding the wetlands and the creation of 1300 linear feet of bioswales. More than 80,000 native plants have been installed with the assistance of more than 50 UCSB student interns and volunteers.
Docent: Lisa Stratton
Bikes by the Ocean (Presentation and Tour)
Successful bike commuting requires both good bike infrastructure and bike security.  The first presentation is on bike racks, locks and theft deterrence programs. The second part of the session will be both a presentation and short bike tour of the UCSB campus. UCSB has invented and adapted a number of bike infrastructure solutions to solve specific bike issues they face from roughly 15,000 daily bike commuters, 7 miles of class I bike paths,
and over 20,000 bike parking spaces on campus. Come see their high density bike racks, pedestrian islands, and pathway marked for bike, skateboard and pedestrian use.
Docent: Dennis Whelan
Materials Research Laboratory
UCSB's Materials laboratories support a wide range of research related to sustainability, from LEDs, to bioplastic recycling methods, to biomimetic materials. This tour will take you through several open-access engineering research facilities, and provide highlights of the notable research efforts underway on this corner of campus, as well as the efficient operation of the labs themselves. Their efficiency is not only in terms of energy, water, and materials, but also of the efficiency with which researchers can access and use the comprehensive, cutting-edge suites of instrumentation and expert staff the campus' many shared experimental facilities provide.
Docent: Amorette Getty
The SPEED Retrofit Route – Adaptive Exterior Lighting Solutions at UCSB
Lighting technology is rapidly evolving to the point that the 2013 California Title 24 requires occupancy controlled exterior lighting under 24 feet for most applications. The SPEED Program and UCSB have new exterior demonstrations of a number of advanced controls and lighting solutions with savings over 65%. This nighttime tour will give conference attendees a chance to observe best practice technologies, including LED sources, bi-level and wireless networked adaptive lighting controls, including path-predicting lighting systems, in parking garages, on pedestrian paths, and street lighting along campus roadways. This will be a walking tour
Docents:
Karl Johnson, SPEED Demonstrations Manager, CIEE;
Pedram Arani, Associate Development Engineer, California Lighting Technology Center, UC Davis; and
Jordan Sager, LEED AP, Utility and Energy Services, UC Santa Barbara.
Closer to Net-Zero: SPEED Adaptive Interior Lighting Solutions
The SPEED-UCSB best practice adaptive interior lighting retrofit demonstrations on the tour save 50% to 80% of the energy and the networked control systems enable advanced monitoring and control for enhanced management. This tour will explain the variety of adaptive lighting solutions and the new interior bi-level control requirements in the 2013 California Title 24. The demonstrations include; LED dimmable fixtures, adaptive corridor lighting, adaptive task/ambient office lighting for both open office and private office areas, wireless integrated photosensor and motion sensor (WIPAM) lighting control systems, daylight harvesting solutions and the adaptive LED lighting system retrofit design for the UCSB Recreation Center Complex. These will be walking tours
Docents:
Karl Johnson, SPEED Demonstrations Manager, CIEE;
Pedram Arani, Associate Development Engineer, California Lighting Technology Center, UC Davis; and
Jordan Sager, LEED AP, BD+C, Utility and Energy Services, UC Santa Barbara.
UCSB's Waste Management Infrastructure
This tour will highlight several aspects of UCSB’s waste management program. Attendees will see first hand how we use older recycling bins alongside more technologically advanced models to maximize efficiency and how we have developed both on and off-site composting programs to drastically reduce organic waste. The tour will also showcase the wide variety of groups that work together on waste management at UCSB, including but not limited to Housing and Residential Services, Facilities Management, and Associated Students Recycling. This tour will be by bicycle, the bikes will be provided.
Docents:
Matthew O'Carroll, Graduate Student, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management/ Refuse & Recycling Intern, Facilities Management, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sarah Siedschlag, MS, BS, Supervisor, Associated Students Recycling, UC Santa Barbara