Tag Archives: south coast

Tracking Ocean Acidification down the West Coast

March 17th, 2014

**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 […]

The non-native turf-forming alga Caulacanthus ustulatus displaces space-occupants but increases diversity

February 13th, 2014

Smith, J.R., Vogt, S., Creedon, F., Lucas, B.J., and Eernisse, D.J. 2014. Biological Invasions. 16:2195-2208.

One Year of OceanSpaces!

November 25th, 2013

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> November marks the first anniversary of the online community – and our community is the heart of OceanSpaces.  In our first year, we’ve grown to 600+ members, who are broadly engaged across the platform: downloading data; sharing monitoring results; writing blogs and more.  The interactive e-book, […]

Bird’s Eye View: Seabird Monitoring Program Adds to Understanding of Ecosystem Conditions

November 24th, 2013

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Like scores of Californians, Dan Robinette is a bird watcher. He spends many blustery spring days hiking across rocky terrain to reach remote bluffs along the North Central Coast in search of seabirds. Bundled in layers to buffer the frigid northwest wind sweeping in off the […]