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MPA Collaboratives Build Local Partnerships for Ocean Conservation
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> MPA Collaboratives Build Local Partnerships for Ocean Conservation A few years ago, it seemed inconceivable that fishermen, tribes, agencies, academic institutions and environmental...
Talking Fish Over Pizza
**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...
Golden Gate MPA Alliance forms work group to communicate, educate and help compliance with local MPAS
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The Golden Gate MPA Collaborative has successfully brought together environmental NGOs, agencies, fishermen, scientists, aquaria and vessel captains interested in raising awareness of marine...
Shark Watch: A Citizen Science Project on Sharks & Rays of the San Francisco Bay
**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...
Perspectives from the OPC-SAT — Part 2: Applying Scientific Thinking to Decision-Making
**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...
Giving Thanks for Sharks and a Healthy Ocean
**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...
My Journey to the North Atlantic Gyre Part II: Data collection and sailing at a 45 degree tilt
**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...
New Blog Series: Perspectives from the Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team
**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...
Join Us for 10 Days of MPAs – Highlighting Science from California’s Coast and Ocean — Starting December 8
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This week we're kicking off a big celebration. No, not for the holidays. This one's for the community involved in monitoring California’s statewide network of MPAs! The science and research...
Mendocino Headlands and Frolic Cove Survey’s
**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...
My Journey to the North Atlantic Gyre: a scientist’s witness of plastic pollution
**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...
Moss Landing Shark Researcher Requesting Hammerhead Shark Data
**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...