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Research Groups
This project receives support from all participating research groups, which provide the resources and personnel necessary for sustaining a project of this magnitude. We would like to give special acknowledgement to three groups that have provided generous, long-term funding, without which the project would not be possible: BOEM (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), PISCO (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans), and NPS (National Parks Service). For more information about funding for this project, please click here.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
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This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties. These sites are primarily funded by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. For more information about these sites, please contact Mary Elaine Helix.
Cabrillo National Monument
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within Cabrillo National Monument and and San Diego County. These sites are primarily funded by the National Park Service. For more information about these sites, please contact Benjamin Pister.
Channel Islands National Park
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within Channel Islands National Park. These sites are primarily funded by the National Park Service. For more information about these sites, please contact Dan Richards.
California State University at Long Beach
This research group surveys one Long-Term Monitoring site in Palos Verdes, California. This site is currently unfunded. For more information about this site, please contact Bengt Allen.
California State University at Fullerton
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within Orange County, California. These sites are primarily funded by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. For more information about these sites, please contact Jayson Smith and Jennifer Burnaford
Navy Marine Ecology Consortium
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites on San Clemente Island. These sites are primarily funded by United States Navy. For more information about these sites, please contact Suzanne Graham.
Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. These sites are primarily funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For more information about these sites, please contact Liam Antrim.
Olympic National Park
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within the Olympic National Park. These sites are primarily funded by the National Park Service. For more information about these sites, please contact Steven Fradkin.
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
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This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. These sites are primarily funded by the National Estuarine Research Reserve System and the Washington State Department of Ecology. For more information about these sites, please contact Heath Bohlmann.
Quinault Indian Nation
This research group surveys one Long-Term Monitoring site within the Quinault Indian Nation. For more information about these sites, please contact Scott Mazzone.
Redwood National and State Park
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within Redwood National and State Park. These sites are primarily funded by the National Park Service. For more information about these sites, please contact David Anderson.
San Francisco Bay Area Network - National Park Service
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. These sites are primarily funded by the Inventory and Monitoring Program of the National Park Service. For more information about these sites, please contact Ben Becker or Darren Fong.
Sitka Sound Science Center
Sitka Sound Science Center surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within Sitka Sound, Alaska. These sites are primarily funded by the North Pacific Research Board. For more information about these sites, please contact Victoria O'Connell.
University of California Los Angeles
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites within southern Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. These sites are primarily funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Cabrillo Marine Aquarium . For more information about these sites, please contact Rich Ambrose.
University of California Santa Barbara
This research group coordinates the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe) and surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites at Santa Catalina Island. MARINe coordination is funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Catalina surveys are primarily funded by the Tatman Foundation and University of California, Los Angeles. For more information, please contact Jack Engle.
University of California Santa Cruz
This research group surveys Long-Term Monitoring sites from Oregon to northern Santa Barbara County, and Biodiversity Survey sites from Alaska to Mexico. These sites are funded by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, California Ocean Protection Council, California Sea Grant, Comunidad y Biodiversidad, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, and United States Navy. For more information about these sites, please contact Pete Raimondi.
Western Washington University
This research group surveys one Long-Term Monitoring site within Bellingham Bay, Washington. This site is currently unfunded. For more information about this site, please contact Melissa Miner.
