The IDEAS Gift Fund was established in 2011 by Professor Dar Roberts to support the continuation, improvement, and expansion of the “Innovative Datasets of Environmental Analysis by Students” (IDEAS) web site and associated instrumentation. The primary goal is to improve undergraduate learning by providing open access to environmental observations collected by a series of micrometeorological towers and webcams deployed across steep environmental gradients in the Santa Barbara area. Gifts to this fund support the open access data site as well as instrumentation maintenance and upgrades.