Sacramento – Ocean Protection Council (OPC) Executive Director Deborah Halberstadt released the following statement after Governor Brown signed into law two bills designed to protect our oceans and marine environments: SB 1363 (Monning) and AB 2139 (Williams). “Although ocean acidification is a global phenomenon, the West Coast will face some…

Dan Haifley, Our Ocean Backyard. Santa Cruz Sentinel, Oct.8, 2016. Secretary or Natural Resources, John Laird, and his counterparts in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia convened an Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia science panel in collaboration with the Ocean Protection Council and Ocean Science Trust. Read more…

Film Screening (10:00 – 10:45) Into the Gyre – Directed by Scott Elliot Panel Presentations and Discussion (10:45 – 11:15) Panelists : Eben Schwartz, Outreach Manager, California Coastal Commission Cynthia Dunn, Senior Environmental Scientist, CalRecycle Dr. Emilia DeForce, Research Associate, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Please join us for a free…

Several efforts are in place in California that strive to have citizens using photographs to document the tidal level, king tides, storm surge, flooding hazards, and other conditions concerning the boundary of the ocean and coastline. These photos can be used to calibrate sea-level rise and flood models, as well…