Thursday, February 16, 2023
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Monterey Bay Sanctuary Exploration Center (classroom)
35 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, California 95060
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Contact:
Nicole Palma, nicole@mpacollaborative.org
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Event Details
Join a diverse group of marine protected area (MPA) stakeholders, community members, and ocean stewards in the local area for a meeting consisting of local and statewide MPA updates, networking, discussions, engagement opportunities, and more. The Santa Cruz MPA Collaborative is one of 14 collaboratives in the MPA Collaborative Network, a statewide “network of networks” working together to steward California’s 124+ MPAs. Collaborative meetings are for anyone who is interested in getting involved with marine resource management at the local level, please help spread the word and encourage involvement among your colleagues and community members!
- 3:00-4:15 pm – SC MPA Collaborative meeting (SEC classroom) – Learn from SC MPA Collaborative members about what they are doing in their community, hear statewide Collaborative Network and MPA management updates, and discuss collaborative priorities and direction.
- 4:30 – 5:30pm – Presentation from John Ryan, (MBARI) (Fly Through Theater) –
- Title:
- Foraging Strategies of Oceanic Giants, as Seen from Outer Space & Heard from Inner Space
- Synopsis:
- To survive, gigantic marine animals need to consume densely concentrated food patches. Using satellite tracking of whale sharks and directional passive acoustic sensing of whales, this talk will explore how oceanic giants move through vast and patchy ecosystems to forage
- Brief bio:
- John Ryan is a biological oceanographer with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, studying the ecology of plankton, fish, and mammals.
Sign up for the Collaborative mailing list on the Santa Cruz Collaborative webpage to receive future meeting information or reach out to nicole(at)mpacollaborative.org to request meeting information.