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Ocean Observing in the News
General Benefits
"Surface Current Mapping with High-Frequency Radar: Building the Tools for Hazardous Spill Response", prepared by Jeff Paduan (Naval PostGraduate School) 
"The Value of the COCMP to California", prepared by John Largier (SIO/UCSD), with input from participants in COCMP consortia, Coastal Conservancy staff and consultants, and information users statewide, June 2004
"Mars Beneath the Waves, Why oceanography is a valuable pursuit", Washington Post Article, Feb, 2004
"Growth stresses Pacific Ocean, commission says", San Mateo County Times, March, 2004
Pollution
"Beach Water Pollution, Learning What We Need To Know", Coast & Ocean , Winter 2002-03
"Urban runoff health risks", April 5, 2004
New Approaches Needed to Fight Coastal Pollution, PEW Oceans Commission Press Release
"A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches", Natural Resources Defense Council Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches
"Caltrans pledges to curb pollution", Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2004,
"Stop trashing the ocean", Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2004,
California Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Inventory
Heal the Bay: The Beach Report Card
Oil Spills
"A Bane for Buzzards Bay, a Boon for Coastal Science", Woods Hole Currents, Summer 2003
"Robot Buoy System Aids Gulf Oil Spill Clean-ups"
Marine Diseases
"Opossum parasite linked to deaths perplexes scientist ", Monterey County Herald, May 22, 2004
"Sea otters benefit from medical school research", Stanford Report, March 17, 2004
"Parasites in cats killing otters", NOAA Magazine, January 21, 2003
"Otter deaths connected to cat feces", SFGate.com, June 28, 2002
Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
"Return of the Killer Shellfish", Outdoor California, December 2003
"What are Harmful Algal Blooms"
"Algal bloom dynamics"
"Tracking Tiny Critters That Have a Big Economic Punch", Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 1998
"Neurotoxin in San Diego seawater" , SCRIPPS News, April 9, 2004
"Otter deaths rising", Monterey County Herald, Apr. 15, 2004
"Sewage in urban runoff may spur growth of harmful algal blooms", UCSC Press Release, February 24, 2000
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
“Truly Safe Havens: California 's New Marine Reserve Network”, Coast & Ocean, Summer 2003,
"California 's Marine Life Protection Act", Natural Resources Defense Council
Pew Ocean Commission on Marine Reserves
"Protected Waters around Channel Islands Will Help Rebuild Fishery Stocks, Biodiversity ", Californiafish.Org, October 23, 2002
Fisheries Recovery
"Plan for no-fishing zones returns" The Monterey County Herald, August 4, 2004
"Innovative Research Tracks Mysteries of Marine Larvae" The Los Angeles Times, Feb 16, 2003
"Policy Review in Science Calls for Bush AdministrationTo Protect Wild Salmon", March 25, 2004
"Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish", February 13, 2004
"Action to Protect Salmon Urged", Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2004
"A fish's role in ecology debate", Christian Science Monitor, April 08, 2004
Ocean Current Research
"Black's Beach was 2½-month site for rip current research", San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10, 2004
Climate Change
"California's Coast Feels the Heat, Pt. 2", Tidepool.org, News for Salmon Nation, Dec 21, 2004 |
