SIERRA CLUB :FIVE ACTIVISTS WHO ARE SAVING OUR OCEANS
From 2016 read the profiles of five dynamic individuals and then go to the bottom where there are recent articles on sea urchins, kelp, seaweed, and krill.
Showing posts with label kelp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kelp. Show all posts
8/27/23
KELP FORESTS : PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF COASTAL OCEANS (PISCO) FOUR CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITIES INVOLVED IN LONG TERM RESEARCH
Excerpts: Much of the extraordinary production of kelp falls to the ocean floor, like leaf litter in terrestrial forests. There, it either remains to support productive and species rich detritus-based forest food webs, or is exported by currents to adjacent ecosystems where it fuels food webs on sandy beaches, deep rocky reefs or submarine canyons. Among the many species that inhabit kelp forests are a wide variety of economically important species such as sea urchins, abalone, lobster, sea cucumbers, rockfishes and other finishes, as well as s endangered species including abalone and southern sea otters. The kept itself is harvested to feed abalone in aquaculture facilities and for use in a number of human products. The forests also support economically important eco-tourism, including kayaking, bird and marine mammal watching and scuba diving.
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PISCO was established in 1999 by scientists from four core campuses, Oregon State University, Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Clarify Santa Barbara.
7/30/23
1/30/19
DOLPHINS FEEDING IN THE SEA KELP - WATCHING FOR WHALES
Though not in earnest, I've been looking over the sea cliff to see what I can see. In the last week I met a couple people who said they saw migrating whales in the Pacific near enough to shore. So I'm inspired to keep looking.
I think maybe I saw a small black whale or two feeding in the kept beds. I'm pretty sure I wasn't seeing a skin diver in a black wet suit because of the arch of back. But to identify these would be impossible, just to say the black was black.
This morning - a small pod of dolphins - grey - and the cry of a single sea lion.
I think maybe I saw a small black whale or two feeding in the kept beds. I'm pretty sure I wasn't seeing a skin diver in a black wet suit because of the arch of back. But to identify these would be impossible, just to say the black was black.
This morning - a small pod of dolphins - grey - and the cry of a single sea lion.
2/8/14
KELP WATCH 2014 UCLA and CAL STATE LONG BEACH SCIENTISTS CHECKING FOR RADIATION - FUKISAHAMA JAPAN DISASTER
FOX NEWS : KEP OFF CALIFORNIA COAST TO BE TESTED FOR RADIATION full article
... the Kelp Project is a research program launched by Steve Manley, a Cal State Long Beach biologist who has been studying the environmental impact of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that damaged the plant in March 2011.
MALIBU TIMES : MALIBU KEPT TO BE TESTED FOR RADIATION full article
... In California, kelp is at once admired for its underwater beauty, grumbled over as a beach obstacle and served up on dinner plates. Now it is being used in the name of science...A research team led by UCLA ecologist Peggy Fong will take 15-lb. samples at locations off Escondido Beach and a second site near County Line Beach sometime between Feb. 24 and March 5. More than 20 labs and universities will take place in a West Coast-wide effort called Kelp Watch 2014, testing 35 sites from Alaska to Baja.
... the Kelp Project is a research program launched by Steve Manley, a Cal State Long Beach biologist who has been studying the environmental impact of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that damaged the plant in March 2011.
MALIBU TIMES : MALIBU KEPT TO BE TESTED FOR RADIATION full article
... In California, kelp is at once admired for its underwater beauty, grumbled over as a beach obstacle and served up on dinner plates. Now it is being used in the name of science...A research team led by UCLA ecologist Peggy Fong will take 15-lb. samples at locations off Escondido Beach and a second site near County Line Beach sometime between Feb. 24 and March 5. More than 20 labs and universities will take place in a West Coast-wide effort called Kelp Watch 2014, testing 35 sites from Alaska to Baja.
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