• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper

Keeping Watch for Clean Water

  • About
    • Our Mission & Vision
    • Our Team
    • Our Boat
    • Our History
    • Our Impact
    • About the Santa Barbara Channel
    • About Local Watersheds
    • Strategic Framework
    • Financial Information
    • Careers
    • Contact Us
  • Our Work
    • Education
      • Student Art Show
    • Community Engagement
      • Cruise Ship Advocacy
      • Report Pollution
      • Volunteer
      • Water Conservation
      • Oil Spill Resource Guide
      • Film Plastic Recyling
      • Action Alerts
    • Field Work
      • Beach Water Quality
      • Stream Team
        • Water Quality Indicators
        • Stream Team Data Portal
        • Leydecker Archives
      • MPA Watch
      • Cruise Ship Monitoring
      • Ocean Acidification
    • Advocacy
      • Aquaculture Advocacy
      • Polluted Runoff
      • Agriculture
      • Oil & Gas
        • Protecting the Coast from Sable Offshore’s Pipeline Restart
        • Refugio Oil Spill
        • Oil Spill Resource Guide
        • Platform Decommissioning
        • Legacy Oil Wells
        • Offshore Fracking
      • Ventura River
      • Plastic
        • Film Plastic Recyling
      • Marine Protected Areas
        • MPA Watch
      • Water Supply
        • Desalination
        • Conservation
    • Enforcement
      • Ventura River
      • Offshore Fracking
      • Agriculture
      • Sewage
      • Ojai Quarry
      • Halaco
  • Media
    • Press Releases
    • Blog
    • Newsletter Archive
    • eNews Archive
    • Photo Gallery
    • Video Gallery
  • Take Action
    • Donate
    • Events
    • Volunteer
      • Watershed Brigade
      • MPA Watch
    • Report Pollution
    • Action Alerts
    • Subscribe to eNews
    • Shop
      • Buy Channelkeeper Gear
      • Shop & Support Channelkeeper
  • Donate
Happy swimmers in the ocean.

Channelkeeper Challenge

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper is celebrating our 20-year anniversary throughout 2020, and one of our goals is to engage and help deepen our community’s connections to the vital water resources we work so hard to preserve and protect. One fun new way we’re doing this is through our 2020 Channelkeeper Challenge – a treasure hunt of sorts that encourages people to explore, engage and take actions that celebrate and help protect our beloved coast.
Everyone is invited to join the fun!

Participants who complete the greatest number of activities in 2020 will win awesome prizes
– gift cards from your choice of our favorite companies –
Patagonia, Deckers, SeaVees, Santa Barbara Adventure Co. and Riviera Towel Co.!

(1st place: $500 gift card; 2nd place: $300 gift card; 3rd place: $200 gift card; 4th place: $100 gift card; 5th place: $50 gift card)

Everyone who completes at least 20 of these activities by December 31, 2020 will be invited to a special
Channelkeeper Challenge celebration in early 2021!

DIVE IN AND GET STARTED TODAY!

EXPLORE

Ride a wave

Swim in SB Channel

Paddle on the SB Channel

Go sailing on the SB Channel

Explore a tidepool

Bike the Ventura River Trail

Document ocean wildlife

Document creek wildlife

Snorkel or SCUBA dive at a Santa Barbara coastal MPA (Campus Point, Naples, Kashtayit)


Go whale watching

Visit the Channel Islands

Birdwatch at Carp Salt Marsh or Goleta Slough

Say hi to the seals at the Carpinteria Seal Sanctuary

Watch a sunset at the beach

Take a dip in a creek

Hike to a waterfall

Hike along a creek

Snorkel or SCUBA dive in a marine protected area (MPA) at the Channel Islands

ENGAGE

Participate in a Ventura Stream Team sampling event

Participate in a Goleta Stream Team sampling event

Do a beach clean-up

Do a creek clean-up

Attend an MPA Watching training

Complete an MPA Watch survey

Become a Channelkeeper member

Attend a Channelkeeper event

Help sort film plastic at the Channelkeeper office

Share a Channelkeeper post on Facebook or Instagram

ACT

Harvest and reuse rainwater

Replace landscaping with drought tolerant plants

Make a rain garden

Use a microfiber catching laundry bag/device

Use a reusable alternative to single-use plastics item (e.g., grocery bag, utensil, straw, cup)

Recycle film plastic at the Channelkeeper office

Make something out of found beach debris

Dine at an Ocean Friendly Restaurant

Write/call/email/testify before a public official in support of a policy to address a water issue

Respond to a Channelkeeper Action Alert

Download the PDF

You must register online and review and agree to the rules and waiver of liability.

Registration & Rules

Contact Us

714 Bond Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
[email protected]
(805) 563-3377

Subscribe to eNews

© 2023 Santa Barbara Channelkeeper | Website by Mission Web Marketing
NAVIGATION
  • About
    • Our Mission & Vision
    • Our Team
    • Our Boat
    • Our History
    • Our Impact
    • About the Santa Barbara Channel
    • About Local Watersheds
    • Strategic Framework
    • Financial Information
    • Careers
    • Contact Us
  • Our Work
    • Education
      • Student Art Show
    • Community Engagement
      • Cruise Ship Advocacy
      • Report Pollution
      • Volunteer
      • Water Conservation
      • Oil Spill Resource Guide
      • Film Plastic Recyling
      • Action Alerts
    • Field Work
      • Beach Water Quality
      • Stream Team
        • Water Quality Indicators
        • Stream Team Data Portal
        • Leydecker Archives
      • MPA Watch
      • Cruise Ship Monitoring
      • Ocean Acidification
    • Advocacy
      • Aquaculture Advocacy
      • Polluted Runoff
      • Agriculture
      • Oil & Gas
        • Protecting the Coast from Sable Offshore’s Pipeline Restart
        • Refugio Oil Spill
        • Oil Spill Resource Guide
        • Platform Decommissioning
        • Legacy Oil Wells
        • Offshore Fracking
      • Ventura River
      • Plastic
        • Film Plastic Recyling
      • Marine Protected Areas
        • MPA Watch
      • Water Supply
        • Desalination
        • Conservation
    • Enforcement
      • Ventura River
      • Offshore Fracking
      • Agriculture
      • Sewage
      • Ojai Quarry
      • Halaco
  • Media
    • Press Releases
    • Blog
    • Newsletter Archive
    • eNews Archive
    • Photo Gallery
    • Video Gallery
  • Take Action
    • Donate
    • Events
    • Volunteer
      • Watershed Brigade
      • MPA Watch
    • Report Pollution
    • Action Alerts
    • Subscribe to eNews
    • Shop
      • Buy Channelkeeper Gear
      • Shop & Support Channelkeeper
  • Donate