Oct 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Reef Check, a worldwide organization dedicated to monitoring the health of reef ecosystems, has been busy here in California. They are training volunteer divers to study some of the coast’s most remote marine protected areas in Big Sur, the Channel Islands, and off...
Oct 8, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We are about to wrap up our 2015 survey season with our most challenging expedition of the year, the North Coast MPA Baseline Assessment. After an exciting year of processing video collected...
Oct 5, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The North Coast MPA Baseline Program subtidal monitoring project has been extraordinary, using SCUBA to go places very few (if any) have been diving before. The observation I have enjoyed most...
Oct 3, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Dr. Jenn Caselle, marine ecologist at U.C. Santa Barbara and Chris Voss, President of the Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara talk about the Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas on public...
Sep 22, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This is the first in a three-blog series that will share field stories from graduate students conducting baseline monitoring of kelp forests in California’s North Coast region, one of 11...
Sep 16, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Today, Ocean Sanctuaries’ Founder Barbara Lloyd was interviewed by KPBS journalist Erik Anderson regarding the Yukon Marine Life Survey, a citizen science project documenting marine life...