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​Assistant Project Scientist          

Earth Research Institute
University of California, Santa Barbara      
Santa Barbara , CA 93106

tbell@ucsb.edu

Education
Ph.D. (2016) University of California, Santa Barbara, Marine Science
M.Sc. (2011) San Diego State University, Ecology
B.A. (2006) University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology
B.A. (2006) University of California, Berkeley, Legal Studies

​Recent News!

Testing the Waters, UCSB Current

Sustainable Ocean Development, UCSB Current

Cultivating Marine Biomass, (Press Release for ARPA-E Grant Announcement), UCSB Current

Kelp Helping Kelp, UCSB Current, ScienceDaily

Kelp Beats the Heat, UCSB Current, ScienceDaily, & EurekAlert

NSF Awards $13 Million in Coastal Sustainability Grants, APECS U Alaska SE, NSF Press Release

Finding Floating Forests: It Takes an Online Village to Map Massive Kelp, NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory: Images of the Day

Kelp Losing Their Grip on the Seafloor (1/16/2015)

Finding Cortez (1/12/2015)

Floating Forests Revealed (1/5/2015)