No Normal for Coastal Waters
Nesting failures for cormorants on the Farallones and Alcatraz are just the most obvious expression of unprecedented, and confusing, conditions faced by wildlife in the waters off our shores.
The Ocean
New Submarine Explores California’s Sea Floor
The Nature Conservancy launched the Beagle, a new deep-sea submersible whose first missions is to assess the impacts of different kinds of trawling in Morro Bay.
Turning Back the Plastic Tide
An innovative program uses albatrosses as “winged ambassadors” to help middle school students learn about the distant consequences of plastics that end up in our ocean.
Naturalist’s Notebook: A Worm Ties Together Crabs, Otters and Scoters
Find out how a little worm ties together the lives, and deaths, of several ocean animals, from sea otters to surf scoters to common sand crabs.
New Marine Life Management and Protections
The Pacific Coast is home to more than 50 species of rockfish, including Pacific snapper. Rockfish and other groundfish were once plentiful, but years of commercial fishing have depleted stocks....
Elephant Seals and Climate Change
A new study suggests that warmer ocean temperatures brought on by climate change may permanently skew sex ratios of northern elephant seals, the huge seals that visit a few Bay...
On the Rocks, with a Pup
If you're looking for northern elephant seals, there is no place better to visit than Ano Nuevo State Reserve, home to the world's largest mainland breeding colony.
Gray Whale Migration
Now is the time to see gray whales migrating along the California coast and maybe even appearing inside the Bay.
Book Review: Watching Giants
by Elin Kelsey, UC Press, December 2008, 304 pages, $24.95 Long-lived, slow to reproduce, and often hidden beneath ocean waves, whales and dolphins have remained elusive subjects for scientific study,...
Give Me Shelter
Harbor seals, migrating seabirds, and other wildlife find shelter in the productive waters of Drakes Estero at Point Reyes.
