**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> In 2003, a network of MPAs was implemented in the northern Channel Islands, home to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the Channel Islands National Park. Now part of the South Coast region of the Marine Life Protection Act, these MPAs celebrated their 10th anniversary […]
Tag Archives: research and monitoring
Bringing the Ocean to the Airwaves
February 3rd, 2015
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> What’s Happening with Sea Stars Director Brian Tissot recently made news as part of a team who made a major breakthrough in understanding sea star wasting disease. The disease has caused one of the largest marine life die-offs ever recorded, killing millions of starfish along California […]
Q: How Do You Motivate Citizen Scientists to See the Value of 0?
October 12th, 2014
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> I recently put the question out on the CitSci.org listserv, ‘How do you motivate citizen scientists to see the value of the ‘zero data’ point?’ We had a colorful and sometimes humorous series of replies back and forth from the various PIs on the list, unfortunately, […]
Citizen Science: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
September 27th, 2014
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> In the bad old days of ivory tower academia, only scientists with white coats and Ph.Ds were considered qualified to gather and interpret scientific data—and, God forbid you should suggest otherwise. Enter the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where citizen scientists from all over the world (without […]
A snapshot of California’s North Central Coast comes into focus
September 8th, 2014
**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Summer coastal fog dampens the ground and an acrid smell pervades the air. It’s 5am on an August morning at Pillar Point harbor and the docks are already stirring with movement. Commercial squid season is now in full swing. From tiny parking spots, elephantine trucks overflowing […]