Tidepool Working Group Meeting – Fall 2026

Crystal Cove Conservancy (Southern California) has a summer internship that is creating a game to help teach tidepoolers to be better stewards and to follow the rules of the local marine protected areas, and we want to showcase their work to see how “playing” may be a tool to increase compliance! Do you have any other project ideas you would like to share (or to pitch and see if we can collaborate)?

Please join us on Tuesday, August 18^th from 9 – 10:30 AM, virtually on Zoom. Join the TWG by signing up here!

If you have anything you would like to present, more than just discussing during the roundtable, please let me know so I can prepare the presentation.

In 2019 and 2020 the MPA Collaborative Network (MPACN) held 15 MPA Community Compliance Forums for each coastal county and “harmful tidepooling” was one of the top compliance concerns mentioned statewide. To support efforts of collaboratives, members, and partners to reduce harmful tidepooling, the MPACN formed a statewide Tidepool Working Group (TWG) in the summer of 2022 for anyone interested in connecting across county lines and sectors on tidepool topics. The MPACN acts as the coordinating and facilitating body, but the direction and focus of the TWG is up to its members. If you have questions, ideas, concerns, presentations, or projects you’d like to bring to the group, please let us know.