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Citizen Scientist Monitoring of Rocky Reefs and Kelp Forests, California South Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2011 to 2012

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV

Reef Check California has surveyed rocky reefs and kelp forests in southern California since 2006 and has up to nine years of data from the MLPA South...

Citizen Scientist Monitoring of Rocky Reefs and Kelp Forests, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2014 to 2016

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV, XML

RCCA volunteer citizen scientists conducted 18 visual scuba transects at each monitoring site to survey densities and sizes of ecologically and econom...

Nearshore Substrate Mapping Change Analysis using Multispectral Imagery, California South Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2011 to 2012

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, XLSX, GEOTIFF

Three remote sensing datasets were utilized to create the final substrate map products: 1) 4-banded imagery collected in June, October and November of...

Use of Estuarine, Intertidal, and Subtidal Habitats by Seabirds, California South Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2011 to 2013

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV, TXT

Seabirds are long-lived, upper trophic level predators that are integral components of marine ecosystems. During the breeding season, seabirds are cen...

Characterization of Nearshore Fish Communities Associated with Rocky Reef Habitats, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2014 to 2015

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV, XLSX

To characterize the fish communities associated with nearshore rocky reef habitat, we collaborated with commercial passenger fishing vessel (CPFV) cap...

North Coast State of the Region, Snapshots and Supplemental Reports All Habitats 2013 to 2017

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF

Learn about the biological, ecological, oceanographic, and socioeconomic conditions around the time of marine protected area (MPA) implementation on t...

California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ACCDB

From 2007-2016, CA Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (CCFRP) scientists and fishermen have conducted hook-and-line surveys within three Central...

Estuarine Ecosystems, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2014 to 2016

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV

The North Coast has 16 major estuaries that support a wide diversity of plant and animal life, including salmon and other commercially important speci...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Keystone Marine Species and Ecosystems, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2014 to 2015

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV, TXT

This project, Informing the North Coast MPA Baseline: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Keystone Marine Species and Ecosystems, applies Tribal/Indig...

Characterization of Seabirds, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2014 to 2015

  • Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
  • Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025
  • File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV, TXT, XML

We completed four distinct projects to collect baseline data at varying spatial and temporal scales. First, we used data from aerial photographic surv...