Aug 25, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> REEF divers. Photo by Janna Nichols.If you go for a dive almost anywhere in the world, you can record what you see and contribute those observations to a long-term, large-scale database of...
Aug 25, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> “Hmm”, a surfer wonders, “I wonder where I should surf today?”. The next step is a quick web crawl, checking the tides, wave forecast, and water quality. The latter of those data points likely...
Aug 22, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> JAMES & SUZY CAMERON CHALLENGEExplore the Planet. Protect the Planet.The James & Suzy Cameron ChallengeJames Cameron and his wife Suzy have challenged all Explorers to join in on...
Aug 22, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The BasicsThe Coastal Watershed Council hosts two related programs. First Flush aims to determine land pollution running into Monterey Bay by sampling storm drain runoff during the first...
Aug 21, 2014 | Policy and Permitting, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> In California, maintaining healthy coasts and oceans is critical to our state’s environmental and economic security, and integral to our high quality of life and culture. The California...
Aug 20, 2014 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Early in the summer of 2013, Dr. Pete Raimondi of UC Santa Cruz started receiving calls from people all over California reporting that their local sea stars were turning to goo or disappearing....
