Aug 30, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> As we sail out of Moss Landing Harbor, there are no familiar sounds of sea lions or crashing waves. The early morning fog seems to have muted even the seabirds. The swells are small today,...
Aug 21, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> A few weeks ago I made a mid-afternoon public transport trek from clear sunny Oakland across the Bay to the California Academy of Sciences, shrouded as usual in that busy fog that’s constantly...
Aug 19, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Why engage teens in citizen science? They are a diverse, moody bunch. The field of citizen science is already flush with seasoned and reliable adult enthusiast, birders, divers, nature...
Aug 9, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The white abalone is a deep-water marine snail that, like our common garden snail, scoots slowly on a large muscular foot. A single hard shell armors its soft body and lets the gastropod hunker...
Jul 15, 2013 | Policy and Permitting, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Too often the problem of linking science and policy is either ignored, or misrepresented. With this article, recently published in the Guardian, my colleagues and I had two central aims. First,...
Jul 15, 2013 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Millions of krill—tiny shrimp-like animals that are food for salmon, whales and other large marine species—have been washing up on beaches from Bodega Bay, Calif. to Newport, Ore. in recent...
