Monitoring & Science of MPAs

Scientific monitoring of our marine ecosystem is important to understand the ecological effects of implementing MPAs as management tools.

Below are a variety of monitoring and research activities being conducted on the Central Coast and also some ways citizens are able to get involved in the monitoring of their local waters.

• Central Coast Groundfish Project
  
  
• PISCO – Marine Protected Areas
  
  
• PISCO MLPA Central Coast Study Region Baseline Data
  
  
• PISCO – Design considerations of MPAs
  
  
• PISCO MPA Monitoring Report
  
  
• NMFS
  
  
• USGS
  
  
• SIMON
  
  
• Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network
  
  
• California Ocean Science Trust's - MPA Monitoring Enterprise
  
  
• Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies for Coastal Oceans (PISCO) Science of Marine Reserves – 2nd edition U.S. Version, 2007 (5.7MB PDF file)
  
  
• Monitoring MPAs in Deep Water Off Central California–2007 IMPACT Submersible Baseline Survey, Richard Starr and Mary Yoklavich, et al. University of California Cooperative Extension – Sea Grant Program, Publication No. T-067 (3.2MB PDF file)

Opportunities for the public to get involved: