Jan 29, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Please join us on Facebook, where we (Ocean Sanctuaries) have set up a page devoted to the latest in ocean-related citizen science–we have over 700 members and are growing...
Dec 11, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Talking Fish Over PizzaI slide onto the stool next to a hunched over man at Piaci Pizza, a local hang out for Fort Braggers. He’s watching a movie on his iPhone screen and without glancing up at...
Dec 9, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> As the largest estuary on the west coast of North America, the San Francisco Bay hosts many species of elasmobranchs, the taxonomic group of cartilaginous fishes we know as sharks, skates and...
Dec 8, 2014 | Policy and Permitting, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This blog series is dedicated to giving a voice to OPC-SAT members to share their reflections on bridging the science policy boundary. The Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team...
Dec 7, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> With Thanksgiving near, I’m not thinking of turkey breast or sweet potatoes. I’m thinking about the ocean and my own health, because the two are tied intimately together. Besides working to...
Dec 6, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> In this second piece of my experience sailing the ocean blue, I describe the research methods we used to document levels of plastic marine pollution across the subtropical and subpolar gyres in...
