Dec 4, 2014 | Policy and Permitting, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> As Program Manager at Ocean Science Trust, I have been working with the Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team (OPC-SAT) for over four years. I am often asked by researchers, their...
Nov 19, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> I stood on the “landing pad” at the Mendocino Headlands site, also known as Pipeline, catching HSU students as waves pushed them one at a time onto the flat rocky outcropping which made this...
Nov 14, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The 5Gyres Institute is on a mission to educate the world about the downside of its reliance on single-use plastic. The Institute documents the prevalence of marine plastic pollution in major...
Nov 13, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We are posting this to assist Victoria Elena Vásquez at the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing. they are asking anyone who has sighted a Hammerhead shark in Southern California this...
Nov 12, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Friendly reminder: Ocean Sanctuaries offers 2 Citizen Science shark observer apps–both free:1. National Geographic’s ‘Fieldscope’ Citizen Science app, modified for our...
Nov 3, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The Mattole ValleyAfter finishing our survey of the Reading Rock SMR (see Part III) and waiting out our first big north coast storm of the season, we left Humboldt Bay on what seemed to be a...