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...
