MARINE

Because rocky intertidal communities are highly diverse and subject to constant change, monitoring of these areas must be done in a well-designed, systematic manner, over long periods of time. Our monitoring program began with the goal of developing an approach that would enable researchers to collect statistically sound data using methods that were simple enough to maintain over the long-term, using minimal resources, and has grown into a consortium of groups that now monitor sites along the entire Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to Mexico, and several East Coast sites in Maine and New Hampshire... This project receives support from all participating research groups, which provide the resources and personnel necessary for sustaining a project of this magnitude. Special recognition should go to the agencies who have provided the majority of continuous funding for the project over several decades: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, The National Park Service, The California..

Primary location: Santa Cruz