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Embracing a new generation of citizen scientists
**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...
New study adds urgency to abalone recovery
**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...
Scientists and Policymakers: Wave Goodbye to the Valley of Death
**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,...
Sea Grant Studying Krill Die-Off
**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...
MPAs and Citizen Science: What’s the opportunity?
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Beyond the traditional institutions of science lies a vast array of motivated, talented individuals engaging in the world around them through citizen science, and there may be even more waiting...
Got Gas? Try Recompression!
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> If you’ve ever been fishing off the coast of California, you’ve likely captured a rockfish, and perhaps even captured a rockfish that you had to throw back. If this is familiar to you, the...
Building Trust and Collecting Data in California’s Marine Protected Areas
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> While both are deeply invested in the future of the state's coastal waters, fishermen and ocean scientists haven't always agreed on the need for or proper location of marine protected areas...
A California Encounter with a Mola Mola
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Wednesday, November 7 was a nearly perfect day for diving. The swell was small, winds were calm and there was no offshore current. My buddy and assistant Anneliese Kupfrian and I took advantage...
Teaming Up to Take the Pulse of Marine Protected Areas
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Tracking the health of our oceans is a large, complicated job – but by working together, we can meet the challenge. California is investing in baseline monitoring of the statewide network of...
Monitoring the Pulse of Our Ocean
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Let the learning begin. The planning of California's open coast statewide marine protected area (MPA) network is now complete-the Fish and Game Commission approved plans for the final stretch of...
Welcome to OceanSpaces!
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> OceanSpaces is an online community that fosters new knowledge of ocean health. The platform brings everyone together with a stake in the health of California’s oceans – scientists, fishermen,...
Factors influencing human visitation of southern California rocky intertidal ecosystems
Ocean and Coastal Management. Garcia, A. and J.R. Smith. 2013. 73: 44-53.