Recent CeNCOOS News and Activities

View CeNCOOS updates on Fall 2008 algal blooms here (10/24/08)

Read about our current and future activities in our 'CeNCOOS Update' (pdf) (9/5/08)

NOAA awards CeNCOOS funding to support ocean observing efforts in 2008-09 (pdf) (5/30/08)

Find out about HABMAP in the CeNCOOS Region click here

View new CeNCOOS Classroom teaching tools click here

MBARI instruments (1990-2008) record lowest Monterey Bay ocean temperatures in 2008
  View cold water anomaly data products

New CeNCOOS Council Members added (5/13/08):
Raphael Kudela, UC Santa Cruz
Dean Wendt, CalPOLY
Frank Shaughnessy, Humboldt State University
  For full listing of 15 CeNCOOS Council members, click here

Learn about national ocean observing issues, view the IOOS director's most recent newsletter here

View the April update for the National Federation of Regional Associations (word doc) (4/30/08)

CeNCOOS reconvenes group of scientists to discuss reasons for recent large, persistent algal blooms in Monterey Bay - view our report here. (4/14/08)

Tarballs on central California beaches, likely from natural source - CeNCOOS report (2/08)

View CeNCOOS Response to San Francisco Bay Oil Spill here (11/07/07)

Help populate the IOOS National Registry
Instructions for Submitting Near Real-time and Fixed Platform Information: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ioos/obsRegistry/obsRegistryInstructions.pdf 
Map of Sensors http://oceanobs.org/wc/map/

Recent Regional Ocean News and Issues

Unsafe bacteria levels found at 1 beach in San Mateo County (visit this site) (10/30/08)

Unsafe bacteria levels found at 1 beach in Monterey County (visit this site) (10/28/08)

View the new PaCOOS interactive West Coast Habitat Server click here

Monterey Aquarium Releases White Shark (9/7/08)

CDFG closes nearshore fishery in Northern CA to protect yelloweye rockfish (9/02)

The Center for Intergrated Marine Technologies (CIMT) ends as a program - some projects will be continued by CeNCOOS and other organizations (7/31)

West Coast Governor's Ocean Action Plan (7/29)

View the new CIMT Phytoplankton Identification Guide

Heal-the-Bay 18th Annual California BeachReport Card (5/21/08)
- Dry weather water quality on beaches very good, wet weather water quality down overall from last year
- LA County has overall worst, but 3 CeNCOOS region beaches rank in top 10 for worst water quality
Press Release: pdf
Full Report: pdf

Pacific Fishery Management Council Closes California Commercial and Sport Chinook (King) Salmon
fisheries for first time in history due to record low numbers of fish
View Pacific Fishery Management Council's Press Release (pdf) (4/10)
New York Times article on Sacramento River salmon collapse (3/17)

Sewage spill into SF Bay near Tiburon (5/14/08)

California’s Central Coast Marine Protected Areas now in effect
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/ccmpas_list.asp

Meetings/Workshops/Conferences:

CalCOFI 2008 Conference at Scripps in La Jolla, San Diego 17-19 November