Apr 2, 2015 | Policy and Permitting, Research and Monitoring
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We’ve reached an important milestone in the South Coast marine protected area (MPA) baseline monitoring period! Technical reports from 9 monitoring projects in the South Coast MPA Baseline...
Mar 24, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Not to take anyone away from this fine space here, but next time you’re on Facebook, come check out the page I created for ‘Shark Conservation Non-Profits’...
Mar 23, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> As an active diver and underwater videographer, I have been diving the California coastal marine protected areas, many before they were formed under the Marine Life Protected Act. Last fall I...
Mar 22, 2015 | Research and Monitoring, Uncategorized
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> On Feb. 11, 2015, Barbara Lloyd, Founder of Ocean Sanctuaries, presented an abstract called: IDENTIFYING SEVENGILL SHARKS IN SAN DIEGO WITH ‘WILDBOOK’ Barbara Lloyd and Michael Bear,...
Mar 10, 2015 | Policy and Permitting, Research and Monitoring
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> California’s South Coast marine protected area (MPA) network was established in early 2012, and it ranges from Point Conception to the California-Mexico border. It includes sandy beaches, kelp...
Mar 10, 2015 | Policy and Permitting, Research and Monitoring
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> My favorite thing about conferences is the networking. I know all you introverts just cringed a little (or a lot). The conversations after the talks end, outside conference rooms, during lunch...