Support Your Local Ocean!
June 8 is World Oceans Day, but what's the big deal with celebrating our oceans? Well, generally, we've polluted, over-fished, and taken these vastly unexplored bodies of water for granted,...
The Ocean
Of Mice and Birds at the Farallones
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials extended to June 10 the deadline for accepting public comments on a controversial proposal to eradicate nonnative house mice on the Southeast Farallon Islands. Opponents...
Kids Clean Up and Make Art at Ocean Beach
How do you get 500-plus kids to sit still on the beach? Tell them a helicopter is about to fly overhead and take their collective photograph, and that by the...
Tracking an Extreme Mammal: Elephant Seals
They can plunge to depths of more than a mile and stay submerged for 90 minutes without coming up for air. They can swim up to 14,000 miles a year....
Toothy Charisma and More at SF Ocean Film Festival
A film festival about the ocean doesn't have to look far for charisma: certain toothy creatures and wave-riding daredevils will easily draw audiences. But the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival,...
In the Third Kind of Fog
For San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll, it all happened at Limantour.
Sea Otters Face Dual Threat of Sharks and Algae
It's safe to say that most Californians harbor a soft spot for sea otters. So two bleak reports this past month concerning the fate of the southern sea otter were...
Book Review: Introduction to California’s Beaches and Coast
Chances are you've sat on the beach and pondered where the sand goes when the waves carry it off, or maybe what the California coast looked like a million years...
New Efforts to Track and Predict Harmful Marine Algae
Nearly every year for a decade, scientists have detected harmful algae blooms in Monterey Bay. These threaten birds and marine mammals alike, and now researchers have funding to develop new...
Don’t Miss the Summertime Blues!
This summer has been a great year for whale watching in Monterey Bay. The giant blues showed up early and have stuck around, making for daily sightings of these amazing...
