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Research in Santa Cruz

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Santa Cruz. The largest by output are Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center.

Research institutions
1
Research works
93
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
34.4%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Santa Cruz?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Pacific Coastal and Marine Science CenterResearch facility 93 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which keywords describe research in Santa Cruz?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Sea-Level Rise, Sediment Transport, Wave Modeling, Climate Change Impacts, Coastal Dynamics and Shoreline Change.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 29 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 29 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change9▲ 15×19 topics
  2. Remote Sensing4▲ 16×12 topics
  3. Sea-Level Rise4▲ 168×2 topics
  4. Sediment Transport4▲ 107×5 topics
  5. Wave Modeling3▲ 248×2 topics
  6. Climate Change Impacts3▲ 105×2 topics
  7. Coastal Dynamics2▲ 397×1 topic
  8. Shoreline Change2▲ 397×1 topic
  9. Global Carbon Budget2▲ 144×2 topics
  10. Coastal Protection2▲ 139×2 topics
  11. Ecosystem Services2▲ 21×3 topics
  12. Global Warming2▲ 20×4 topics
  13. Tectonics2▲ 67×3 topics
  14. Carbon Sequestration2▲ 110×1 topic
  15. Holocene2▲ 67×3 topics
  16. Mangrove Forests2▲ 227×1 topic
  17. Sea Level2▲ 77×2 topics
  18. Sea Level Rise2▲ 60×3 topics
  19. Tropical Cyclones2▲ 140×2 topics
  20. Ocean Acidification2▲ 91×3 topics
  21. Hurricanes1▲ 198×1 topic
  22. Sedimentation1▲ 111×2 topics
  23. Storm Surge1▲ 198×1 topic
  24. Glacial Cycles1▲ 90×1 topic
  25. Paleoclimatology1▲ 73×1 topic
  26. Coral Reefs1▲ 160×1 topic
  27. Marine Ecosystems1▲ 100×1 topic
  28. Fluvial Systems1▲ 185×1 topic
  29. Sequence Stratigraphy1▲ 185×1 topic

What research is done in Santa Cruz?

  1. 1 Coastal and Marine Dynamics Earth-Surface Processes 2 works
  2. 2 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 2 works
  3. 3 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  4. 4 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  5. 5 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 1 works
  6. 6 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 1 works
  7. 7 Aeolian processes and effects Earth-Surface Processes 1 works
  8. 8 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 1 works
  9. 9 Soil erosion and sediment transport Soil Science 1 works
  10. 10 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 1 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.