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Introducing the South Coast Snapshot Series
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> About this time last year, technical reports from each of the ten South Coast marine protected area (MPA) baseline monitoring projects were rolling in. These technical reports summarize the...
Exploring California’s Marine Protected Areas: Sea Lion Gulch State Marine Reserve
On a misty morning in early September, I took a trip to California’s Lost Coast with Calla Allison, director of the MPA Collaborative Network. Our mission: photograph Sea Lion Gulch State Marine Reserve (SMR), one of the most isolated marine protected areas (MPAs) in...
Wrapping Up the North Central Coast MPA Baseline Program!
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The last twelve months have been an incredible journey for the North Central Coast MPA baseline period, as we reconnected with the local ocean community to share details of the first-ever broad...
Science Advisory Team advances work of the West Coast Ocean Acidification & Hypoxia Science Panel
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Ocean acidification poses a real threat to coastal ecosystems and economies, raising the question: other than reduce global emissions, what can we do?To confront this challenge, the Science...
Coordinated California Coastal BioBlitz set for June 2016
Coordinated California Coastal BioBlitz set for June 2016 Dust off your rubber boots. Dig out your Chacos or Tevas. Grab a tide table and a friend. Get your cameras and smartphones ready! Over the week of June 4th-June 12th we need you to get out to the...
Snapshot Cal Coast: A Coordinated Coastal BioBlitz on the California Coast June 4th-12th 2016
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Snapshot Cal CoastA Coordinated California Coastal BioBlitz- June 4-12, 2016 Dust off your rubber boots. Dig out your Chacos or Tevas. Grab a tide table and a friend. Get your cameras and...
Soaking up sun and smarts at the MARINe Workshop
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Here at Ocean Science Trust, we celebrate any and all excuses to head out of Oakland and soak up the surf and sunshine of the South Coast. The February 2016 MARINe (Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal...
U.S. EPA’s 2016 Recreational Waters Conference Features a Session on Citizen Science
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Preserving and restoring water quality protects the public from waterborne illness when recreating (swimming, wading, surfing...) continues to be a topic of importance to communities...
The State of the California North Central Coast
The State of the California North Central Coast By Dina Liebowitz, Associate Scientist, California Ocean Science Trust Ocean Science Trust, in partnership with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and Ocean Protection Council, recently released the State of...
Guest Post: Tarrant Seautelle, MPA Watch Statewide Coordinator
Guest Post: Tarrant Seautelle, MPA Watch Statewide Coordinator This past week was an exciting one for MPA Watch. As everybody who works in conservation knows, protecting anything is an ongoing task. The job doesn’t simply end once the regulations have been...
Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team Workshop Agenda Now Available
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team WorkshopAgenda Now AvailableWorkshop Theme: Bracing for a Changing WorldApril 18, 2016Elihu M. Harris State Building, Room 11515 Clay St. Oakland,...
Exploring California’s Marine Protected Areas: The Farallon Islands
Beyond California’s coast and surrounded by the tumultuous Pacific Ocean, endlessly battered by wind and waves and commonly shrouded in fog, lies the archipelago known as the Farallon Islands. Unbeknownst to many, the Farallon Islands are part of the city of San...