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Focusing In: REEF
**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...
Focusing In: Blue Water Task Force
**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...
Eat Your Way to the Ocean: Save the Ocean 3 Times a Day
**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 giving up...
Focusing In: Coastal Watershed Council
**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...
Building a Shared Vision for California’s Ocean Health
**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 Ocean...
Help Track Sea Star Wasting Disease!
**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....
The BLUE: A $10,000 Ocean Conservation Fellowship Grant
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We are introducing an exciting campaign to bring about awareness and solutions to protect our marine reserves. Upload a 90 sec video and you could be selected for the $10,000 fellowship grant...
Making Citizen Science Matter to Marine Conservation
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We're bringing a citizen science perspective on the overall theme of the International Marine Conservation Congress of "Making Science Matter". To accomplish this, we have a whole day of...
Focusing In: Beach Watch
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> In the aftermath of Cosco Busan spilling nearly 54,000 gallons of oil around the Bay Bridge and outer coast from Drakes bay to Half Moon Bay in 2007, Beach Watch volunteers mobilized to walk the...
Video featuring Reef Check California Volunteers
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Reef Check has created a new video featuring its California volunteers and the ways in which they get involved in California’s MPA monitoring. The video features three Reef Check California...
Focusing In: Grunion Greeters
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> The Basics: Grunion run onto sandy beaches during their spawning season at night after the highest tide associated with a full or new moon. Volunteers contribute to our evolving understanding of...
Focusing In: Collaborative Fisheries Research West
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Collaborative Fisheries Research West is a program that supports and facilitates research involving fishermen, managers and scientists. Unlike other cases we have examined, this is a program...