Tag Archives: science

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This post first appeared March 17, 2014 in the West Coast Governors’ Alliance on Ocean Health, The Collaborative Voice of the West Coast Sea Grant Fellows As a Californian, I had only heard snippets about ocean acidification (OA) before I started my Sea Grant Fellowship. Unlike […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This post first appeared January 27, 2014 in the West Coast Governors’ Alliance on Ocean Health, The Collaborative Voice of the West Coast Sea Grant Fellows. As someone working extensively with ocean-related data sets, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of a new West Coast marine […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This post first appeared February 4, 2014 in The California Majority Report. Liz Whiteman Many factors influence the health of the ocean, but one making waves of late is ocean acidification. It is human nature to fear what we do not adequately understand, and there are […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> We’ve reached a turning point in our citizen science blogging experiment on Facing West. Until now we’ve been exploring, here in these virtual pages, a wide range of topics relevant to the challenge of connecting citizen science with management. At the same time we’ve been venturing […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Depending on the strain of citizen science, people point to cooperative weather observing, water quality, or birds as ‘the oldest’. Each arose in the cultural context of their time and consequently found their appropriate place among the accepted practices in science. Each has also weathered changes […]