Summer 2008

Special Session:The First Five Years of Monitoring the Channel Islands Marine Protected Area Network
Thursday, February 7th – Friday, February 8th
Embassy Suites, Mandalay Beach - Hotel & Resort, Mandalay Ballroom
2101 Mandalay Beach Road in Oxnard, California
www.mandalaybeach.embassysuites.com
1-805-984-2500
Free and open to the public
For additional information click here

MERITO Academy Program, a partnership of CINMS and Channel Islands Marine Resource Institute is seeking a curriculum developer to complete their curriculum. The position is project based.
Click here pdf to download details of the project.
For more information contact Rocio.Lozano@noaa.gov

Protecting your Channel Islands Brochure now available!
Click herepdf (4.6MB)

FEDERAL WATER MARINE RESERVES NOW IN EFFECT:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has completed a network of marine zones in the federal waters of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. click here for more info.

Sanctuary Sam the Sea Lion to Head National Ocean Awareness Campaign
NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary Program launched a new national ocean literacy, education, and public awareness campaign featuring Sanctuary Sam, a California sea lion who will be the program’s “spokes-sea lion” from his SeaWorld-based home in Orlando, Fla. More Sam: Check out Sanctuary Sam's MySpace page

There have been three separate incidents of dead blue whales occurring in the Southern California Bight in the past three weeks (Of which, two were in the Santa Barbara Channel in the past two weeks). This highly unusual, if not unprecedented. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History website offers information regarding the strandings. For more information on the blue whale strandings click here

NEW Research Coordinator Steve Katz, Ph.D. joins the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Katz will work with Channel Islands sanctuary staff and partners to implement and oversee the long-term monitoring of sanctuary resources, including the Channel Islands marine protected area network.
“The addition of Dr. Katz to our staff will significantly enhance our support of long-term research and monitoring in the sanctuary,” said Chris Mobley, Channel Islands sanctuary superintendent. “Steve has a wide range of skills that will enhance our collaborative efforts, including experience in integrated ecosystem assessment, sophisticated modeling and statistics, and ocean engineering."
Click here for more info.