Apr 25, 2016 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**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...
Apr 21, 2016 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**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...
Apr 11, 2016 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**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...
Apr 10, 2016 | Central Coast, North Coast, Research and Monitoring, South Coast
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 written and...
Mar 21, 2016 | Orange County, Research and Monitoring, South Coast
In urbanized regions, such as southern California, USA, marine rocky intertidal habitats are frequented by large numbers of human visitors. Visitor activities, such as trampling, rock turning, and collecting, can harm rocky shore flora and fauna, including reducing...
Mar 12, 2016 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Showing the power of social networking and marine citizen science working together, today, the ‘Citizen Scientists of the Ocean’ group on Facebook reached 3,000 members, both divers...