Marine Protected Area Technology Workshop

This month, our proposal was chosen for a FOSC Student Research and Education Grant. With the support of this grant we will create a large format exhibit at the Seymour Discovery Center. The centerpiece of this exhibit will be a near-life sized printout of our field site, which we will annotate with notes on intertidal zonation and natural history. We will also use informational panels to detail our scientific process and explain how we are using our approach to understand an

Today, we partnered with the Climate Science Alliance - South Coast to put together an educational booth at the Pacific Beach Elementary School Science Day. At the event project scientists engaged local K-5 students with large printouts of local tidepools, examples of local tidepool organisms, a seaweed touch-tank, and marine biology sampling gear. Students were provided activity sheets, encouraging them to ask make observations and ask questions about local ecology and issu

This week, exceptionally low tides offered the opportunity to get out and explore the beautiful rocky intertidal of La Jolla Cove within the Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve. Project partner WiLDCOAST, a local conservation-focused non-profit, capitalized on these tides by working with La Jolla High School Environmental Science teacher Mr. Howard Tenenbaum to organize an intertidal education event. Rising Tides scientist Niko Kaplanis and other researchers from Scripps Institut