Center for Coastal Marine Sciences

         

Collaborative Fisheries ResearchAn Effective Way to Collect Data for Stock Assessments and

Evaluate Marine Protected Areas

         

Monitoring and Assessing Ecosystem Status as Part of Ecosystem-Based Management

Dean E. WendtCenter for Coastal Marine Sciences, Cal Poly, San Luis

ObispoSLOSEA (San Luis Obispo Science and Ecosystem Alliance)

Center for Coastal Marine Sciences

SLOSEA’s vision is a healthy, resilient coastal ecosystem that provides for thriving and interacting populations of plant,

animal and human communities.

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SLOSEA connects marine science with public policy, management, and community by conducting “user driven”

research on marine resources

Center for Coastal Marine Sciences

• Address Key Pollutant Sources and Impacts• Build Data and Framework for Regional

Fisheries Management• Guide Appropriate Levels of Human Access• Identify, Detect, and Control Marine Invasives• Inform Decision Making for a Diversified Marine

Economy • Characterize Climate Change Effects and

Prioritize Local Actions

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Monitor and Assess Ecosystem Status

SLOSEA Key Pollutants Initiative

Center for Coastal Marine Sciences

Address Key Pollutant Sources and Impacts

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SLOSEA Water Quality ObservatorySLOSEA Water Quality Observatory

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tidestides3m max3m max

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““BS1” 2006 Dec 21BS1” 2006 Dec 21

HIGH TIDE+6’

LOW TIDE-1’

Monitor and Assess Ecosystem Status

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Sewage SpillSewage Spill

Mark Moline, Cal Poly Marine SciencesMonitor and Assess Ecosystem Status

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Nitrate and Tides (The Septic Signal?)Nitrate and Tides (The Septic Signal?)

Nitrate

Tide

Time – 2 months

Nitrate appears to be pulsing when Nitrate appears to be pulsing when flushing is diminished by lower tidal swingflushing is diminished by lower tidal swing

Mark Moline, Cal Poly Marine Sciences

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Nonylphenol• Emerging Contaminant • May be causing tumors in fish in Morro Bay

Monitor and Assess Ecosystem StatusLars Tomanek, Cal Poly Marine Sciences

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Nonylphenol

• Bioaccumulation

• Biological effects

Arrow goby with gonadal tumor, dissected

Gonadal tumor Lipoma in liver

Monitor and Assess Ecosystem StatusMark Moline, Cal Poly Marine Sciences

Center for Coastal Marine Sciences

Monitor and Assess Ecosystem Status

Management and Policy Action

Melissa Locke, JD, Cal Poly Marine Sciences

To be included

Center for Coastal Marine Sciences

• California and Coastal Marine Initiative of the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation• California Coastal Conservancy/Ocean Protection Council• California Polytechnic State University• California Sea Grant• Campbell Foundation• David and Lucile Packard Foundation • The Morro Bay National Estuary Program• NOAA Fisheries