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Building on the success of the Bathing Water Quality project, we wanted to explore what it could look like to make water quality information available to users who don't have a water-quality-science background. Water quality data allows consumers to ask "I want to go to a beach with clean bathing water". 
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A new study suggests that increased coastal erosion will create two classes of beach towns: those that can afford to replenish their sand and those that cannot.
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These shocking images show the amount of plastic rubbish being discarded by Australians that is destroying our beautiful coastline.
Donald Rodriguez's insight:
Plastic proliferation near coastal urban areas seems to be a world wide problem. Handling the problem at the source is the only cost effective solution to this issue.
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Sea stars on both coasts of North America are dying en masse from a disease that kills them in a matter of days. Researchers are looking at various pathogens that may be behind what is known as sea star wasting syndrome, but they suspect that a key contributing factor is warming ocean waters.
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Best Management Protocols (BMPs) A major goal of our organization is to improve beach management in ecologically sensitive areas. To that end we have targeted the specific areas for development of...
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Best Management Practices for beach-realted professional activities.
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Southern California is renowned for its beautiful beaches. The effect of sea level rise on these beaches could have grave economic consequences for the region.
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Follow @calebgarling
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Visit NRDC's map to see beach water quality across the country and take action to protect clean water.
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Frustrated beachgoers this summer will finally have a remedy against anyone who blocks public access to California's shoreline.
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California beach photos and information, United States of America, with useful links
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Wow! A pretty biased and perfunctory look at California beaches, but at least some of the major ones are listed here for those TOTALLY unfamiliar with California's sandy beaches.
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“ The West Coast will see an ocean several inches higher in coming decades, with most of California expected to get sea levels a half foot higher by 2030, according a report released Friday.”
Via Ashesh, ABroaderView
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County of Ventura's Coastal and Harbor Maintenance Logistics
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Montgomery Miller wrote an email to Lois Capps about Leadbetter Beach and tourism. He would like to share it with readers for their comments and responses.
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A classic misunderstanding of sandy beach ecology.
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Warmer air and water temperatures, combined with overseas tropical storms, delivered an ecologically desirable but olfactory disagreeable gift to the shores of Laguna Beach this summer: copious amounts of kelp.
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"Wracks"...."wracks!" "Wracks!"
Can we please get an editor in here?!? It is "wrack" people. While I sen to have long given up the hope that writers actually know something about science, there is still a thing called a dictionary.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
October 20, 2014 11:20 PM
"Wracks"...."wracks!" "Wracks!"
Can we please get an editor in here?!? It is "wrack" people. While I sen to have long given up the hope that writers actually know something about science, there is still a thing called a dictionary.
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Governments are backtracking on a network of marine reserves which scientists believe are crucial to preserving ocean biodiversity.
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Powerful interests have aligned in Australia to thwart plans for an MPA network.
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GOVERNMENT plans to oversee marine parks are likely to include Adelaide conservation volunteers monitoring country regions and schoolchildren in projects measuring the ocean and seafood species.
Donald Rodriguez's insight:
This provides a unique opportunity for NGO's and citizen science based efforts to do effective MPA monitoring.
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More is coming. Maybe not more mammoth waves, such as the 25-footers that hit the Wedge this week, but more of the mammoth havoc that came with them. Ocean water pouring into streets and houses in Seal Beach – this isn’t the last time homeowners will see that. Cliffs carved out of the sand at Newport – beachgoers should get used to it.
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Going to the beach is fun if you don't have to deal with people who don't understand beach etiquette.
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Ingestion of microplastics by lugworms could have impact on ocean ecosystems due to their importance to food chain
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This history of San Diego is written in the sand and the surf.
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July 18, 2014 2:32 PM
Increasingly I am understanding how much sandy beaches are worth and how valuable they are to the broader economy and sense of place for those of us here in Southern California. Check out the "Century of Beach Culture Landmarks" link as well.
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Summer just got brighter as the so-called " supermoon " is expected to light up the Earth early Saturday.
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More than 40 college students took part in a summer research program.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
This was the culmination of three weeks of work by an array of great undergraduates from CSUCI and Oxnard, Ventura, and Santa Barbara City Colleges. These students really went in-depth and helped us strongly launch our new sandy beach ecology research effort.
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Ninety-three percent of Ventura County’s shoreline consists of sandy beaches. More than a place to sunbathe and surf, these beaches provide critical habitat and a range of functions valued highly by people. One survey of biological communities of Southern California beaches found that species richness, organism abundance, and biomass are all higher here than similar beaches in other regions around the world. Two endangered shore birds, the California Least Tern and the Western Snowy Plover, nest and feed along these
Via PIRatE Lab, clare wormald
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Port Hueneme hopes to soon reopen the pier, which was closed after it lost four support beams — or pilings — during a late-April high tide, if only to foot traffic.
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Welcome to Ventura County Beaches...
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The SBC Schoolyard Program, educational partnerships and public outreach activities have developed and created resources for K-12 teachers at several grade levels. These resources employ a variety of media including: films, an interactive computer module on CD, and written lesson plans. See the listing below for information on how to request or to download these educational resources.
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