Jessie Kendall-Bar attended Ocean Explorers summer camp at Seymour Center in 2005. Today, she’s a marine science Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz. I invite you to read more about Jessie’s journey. Supporters like you made Jessie’s story possible. Your generosity in 2021 will launch new stories like Jessie’s. Jessie’s name frequently pops up around […]
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https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/09/frog-pond-project.html
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It’s probably safe to say that most beachgoers fear a shark attack more than any other single hazard at the beach. And perhaps surprisingly, on average, there is less than one death each year from a shark bite in all coastal waters of the United States… less than one fatality every year! The probability of […]
These days the news coming from the ocean is usually anything but positive or encouraging, whether ocean acidification, harmful algal blooms and closed fishing seasons, ocean warming and coral reef bleaching, water quality decline, overfishing, loss of habitat, sea-level rise and shoreline erosion, there are a mind-numbing list of problems out there to be concerned […]
Almost any new project in Santa Cruz become controversial almost the day it is proposed. You are often either for it or against it, and desal is no exception. There is often not much middle ground. A former Santa Cruz City Council member once told me from his years on the council that what typically […]
We will never run out of water on Earth, but we are running low on fresh water, locally and globally. Each of the water agencies around Monterey Bay is looking at multiple alternatives for providing water to customers in this 2nd year of a major drought and beyond. The Santa Cruz citizen’s Water Supply Advisory […]
