http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucd_ccs_ocean_coastal_conservation/rss Recent eScholarship items from Community and Citizen Science in Ocean and Coastal Conservation Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:31:56 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f89v0b5 This report highlights the breadth and depth of community and citizen science (CCS) contributions to California’s Marine Protected Area (MPA) program priorities and goals as well as participant contributions and outcomes. We examined the CCS efforts of 10 MPA monitoring projects that received baseline and/or long-term funding from the State. They involved 84,000 participants, 476,000 volunteer hours, 528 monitoring sites, and 100 partner organizations, agencies, institutions, and groups. Beyond the 10 baseline and long-term monitoring projects, there are more than 60 additional CCS projects conducting research and monitoring along the California coast. Though demographic data have not been formally collected or reported from these programs, several programs (including two Tribally-led programs) make explicit efforts to engage underrepresented and underserved communities. Though there were more participants in the north and central California coast, the south coast hosted a higher... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f89v0b5 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Meyer, Ryan Korabik, Angela Harwell, Todd Petersen, Nicholas Ballard, Heidi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j0773z1 Information about human activities along the coast can help us understand human impacts on natural resources and the benefits people derive from marine protected areas (MPAs). In this project we examined human activities along the California coast from 2012 to 2020 using data from the MPA Watch community science network, gathered by more than 1,900 volunteer participants, and a handful of program staff. MPA Watch is gathering useful data at a statewide scale, and has successfully grown its network of volunteer monitoring programs over the last decade to include 12 local programs, 104 monitoring sites, and hundreds of volunteer surveyors each year. Among the observations recorded by MPA Watch surveyors, non-consumptive recreational activities vastly outnumber consumptive activities like fishing, both inside and outside of MPAs. This highlights the value of MPA Watch data for understanding human coastal use, underscores the importance of recreational activities in California’s coastal... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j0773z1 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Eitzel, M.V. Meyer, Ryan Ulle, Nick Oldach, Eliza Lubell, Mark Dobbins, Michael