Feb 1, 2021 | Research and Monitoring, Santa Barbara Channel, South Coast
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are designed to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services. Some MPAs are also established to benefit fisheries through increased egg and larval production, or the spillover of mobile juveniles and adults. Whether spillover influences...
Jan 5, 2021 | Orange County, Outreach and Education, South Coast
As part of the Marine Protected Area Outreach and Education Small Grants Program, the Crystal Cove Conservancy turned their MPA Science Cruise program into a virtual curriculum for teachers to use for free! The full curriculum for the new virtual MPA Exploration can...
Dec 21, 2020 | Central Coast, North Coast, Outreach and Education, South Coast
Hear from attendees about their experience with the virtual symposium and scroll to the bottom for resources, including videos of all the Symposium presentations.
Dec 14, 2020 | Central Coast, Golden Gate, Monterey, North Coast, Outreach and Education, San Luis Obispo, South Coast
Augmented reality coloring pages, online docent trainings, and wildlife disturbance campaigns, oh my! Collaboratives and partners are hard at work developing and carrying out marine protected area (MPA) outreach and education projects funded through small grants...
Dec 14, 2020 | Central Coast, Enforcement and Compliance, Golden Gate, Los Angeles, Monterey, Outreach and Education, San Mateo, South Coast
At the MPA Collaborative Network, we strive to elevate local community voices to the state level and to liaise what we hear from the state managing agencies back down to local stakeholders. A recent example of the success of this bottom-up, top-down collaboration was...
Dec 14, 2020 | Central Coast, North Coast, Outreach and Education, South Coast
Content provided by CMSF. MPA Social Media Campaign Update Have you been participating in the MPA social media campaign? The goal of the campaign is to heighten the visibility of California’s MPAs on social media platforms to increase awareness, particularly...
