Santa Rosa Island Research Station

Santa Rosa Island Research Station (SRIRS) is its own department under the Office of the President at California State University Channel Islands (CI). We seek to cultivate a diverse and interdisciplinary community of scholars. By supporting diverse types of research, education, and outreach across disciplines we initiate innovative resource management solutions. The SRIRS and its community seeks to address management challenges from multiple perspectives that will enable energetic, well-rounded, and successful responses to our changing natural and human landscapes. SRIRS is interdisciplinary in nature and is inclusive of all partners, who currently span a breadth of academic programs both within CI and externally. 

Mission Statement: We provide students, faculty, researchers, and our local community with the resources and opportunities to engage in natural and cultural resource-based research and education via a partnership between the US National Park Service who own Santa Rosa Island and CSU Channel Islands that operate the SRIRS within Channel Islands National Park boundaries.

Touchstones to the Mission:

  • Build inquiry centered educational partnerships.
  • Engage stakeholders in discovery and dissemination.
  • Inspire and transform participants and society.
  • Promote stewardship of resources.
  • Encourage broad sharing of interdisciplinary knowledge.
Year Founded
2014
Year Joined OBFS
2014
Size of Field Station (hectares)
101-500
FSML Web Address
https://www.csuci.edu/srirs/

Private nonprofit organization?
No
Universities affiliated / Parent Organization
Califonria State University Channel islands
Federal, state, or local governmental partners?
NPS
Member of the Virtual Field
No

Additional Information

Private nonprofit organization?
Names of Universities affilated
0
Federal, state, or local governmental partners?
NPS
Name of partner
Tribal partners/users
No
MSI/HBCU users
No
Community College users
No
Member of the Virtual Field
No

Visiting a FS/ML

Open to the Public
Yes
Year round staff
1-2
Seasonal staff
0
Overnight housing facilities/# of beds
21-50
Distance to emergency services
61+
Library
Yes
Hiking trails
Yes
Internship employment
Yes

Environmental Information

Biomes
Intertidal - rocky, Intertidal - sandy, and Intertidal - salt marsh, pelagic, benthic, abyssal
Minimum Elevation
0-100 meters
Maximum Elevation
301-750 meters
Köppen climate classification
C (temperate)
Freshwater habitats
Yes
Urban or rural
Agricultural fields
No

Research

REU host station
No
Dry lab space
Yes
Wet Lab space
No
Research vessels available
No
GIS capacity on site
Yes
Long term data sets
Yes
On site herbarium or voucher species
Formal Data Management Plan
No
Mesocosms, plots, stream diversions, or other sets ups for outdoor manipulative experiments
No
Date Joined OBFS
December 5, 2024