1.) Review the UCSB Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee home page.

2.) Review the Office for Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) Tutorial

3.) Review the UC Davis Employee Health Services & Animal Use and Care Administrative Advisory Committee (AUCAAC) Risk Analysis Tools Website.

ADDITIONAL BASIC TRAINING REQUIRED FOR FIELD STUDIES:

UCSB IACUC has adopted these field research guidelines. If field studies are involved in your protocol, the species-appropriate field guidelines should be reviewed as part of basic training.

1.) If the protocol covers birds, please review the Ornithological Council "Guidelines for Wild Birds in Research." Additionally, please review the "West Nile Virus Fact Sheet"

2.) If the protocol covers small mammals, please review the American Society of Mammalogists "Guidelines for the Capture, Handling, and Care of Mammals" Select "Animal Care and Use Committee" from the left hand section, and then the "1998 Guide and Use Guidelines Document" located on the right hand section.

3.) If the protocol covers amphibians or reptiles, please review the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) and the Herpetologists' League (HL) Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) "Guidelines for use of live amphibians and reptiles in field research"

4.) If the protocol covers fish, please review the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH), American Fisheries Society (AFS) and American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists (AIFRB) "Guidelines for use of fishes in field research"

A protocol cannot be approved until everyone on the protocol roster has completed the basic level training, including the appropriate field guidelines. If you are being added to an existing protocol, you cannot be added to the protocol until the basic level training has been completed. This level of training can be completed at any location with web access. To document web-based training, provide written verification to the IACUC Coordinator at IACUC@lifesci.ucsb.edu.