California Ocean Protection Council
Website: https://opc.ca.gov/
The OPC will ensure that California maintains healthy, resilient, and productive ocean and coastal ecosystems for the benefit of current and future generations.
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Central Coast State of the Region Report All Habitats 2007-2012
- Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
- Last updated: Friday, December 13, 2024
- File types: PDF
State of the Central Coast Region-Results from Baseline Monitoring of Marine Protected Areas 2007-2012. Learn about the biological, ecological, oceano...
Characterization of Human Uses and the Socioeconomic Dimensions, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 1992 to 2014
- Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
- Last updated: Friday, December 13, 2024
- File types: PDF, ZIP, CSV, XML
The primary goal of this project was to inform long-term marine protected area (MPA) monitoring efforts by gathering up-to-date socioeconomic informat...
Oceanographic Context for Characterization and Future Evaluation, California North Coast MPA Baseline Study, 2014 to 2016
- Published by: California Ocean Protection Council
- Last updated: Friday, December 13, 2024
- File types: PDF, ZIP, RTF, CSV, TXT
Marine ecosystems along the North Coast of California exist in a highly energetic and variable oceanographic environment that strongly influences the ...
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 13, 2024
- 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 13, 2024
- 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 13, 2024
- 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 13, 2024
- 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 13, 2024
- 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 13, 2024
- 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 13, 2024
- 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...