University of California-Santa Barbara Coastal Erosion
Shoreline change 0.5 miles south of University of California-Santa Barbara, CA
Nothing alarming measured 0.5 miles south of University of California-Santa Barbara, CA: whatever shift USGS's transects picked up here is too small to call reliably one way or the other, which this site reports as "no significant trend" rather than forcing a direction.
What "University of California-Santa Barbara" means on this page
University of California-Santa Barbara, CA is the nearest named place, 0.5 miles away, to a ~3.5-mile stretch of coast USGS has surveyed - the reading below covers that whole stretch, not a single property in it. Segment center: 34.41, -119.85. USGS's California assessment last surveyed this stretch through 1852-2016, computing the rate with its LRR method. Other US regions were surveyed in different years, sometimes decades apart, so this page states its own rather than implying one national vintage.
What backs this reading up
This reading comes from 104 individual transects averaged together, 96% of which measured erosion rather than growth. The published margin on this reading runs ±0.2 ft/yr. The unadjusted figure here, -0.18 ft/yr, would place it 534 of 1211 if ranked directly - but an unreliable rank isn't a useful one, which is exactly why "no significant trend" is the headline instead. Source: USGS National Shoreline Change data release (ScienceBase, DOI 10.5066/P94J0K7Z), Kratzmann 2024 / Data Report 1187. For scale: North Redington Beach, FL, 2224 miles away, ranks 1084 of 1211 nationally for growth, 0.84 ft/yr. 2.4 miles up the coast, Isla Vista, CA shows the same lack of a significant trend.
One address near University of California-Santa Barbara: the Coastal Change Hazards Portal zooms past this stretch to the underlying map.