On the shores of the Northeast Pacific Coast, research programs have monitored the rocky
intertidal zone for multiple decades across thousands of kilometers, ranking among the …

Local, regional and global targets have been set to halt marine biodiversity loss. Europe has
set its own policy targets to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) of marine ecosystems …

Kelp forests have deteriorated globally due to anthropogenic stressors. There is an urgent
need to extend baselines, to understand the processes that underlie the persistence and …

Abstract Analysis of long‐term trends in abundance of animal populations provides insights
into population dynamics. Population growth rates are the emergent interplay of inter alia …

Climate change and its impacts are increasingly threatening the ability of marine protected
areas (MPA) to meet their conservation goals. While integration of climate change into …

The 100-year record of daily sea-surface temperature (SST) acquired at the Hopkins Marine
Station (HMS) in Pacific Grove, California, is one of the longest oceanographic records in …

The world's oceans are changing at a drastic pace. Beneath the waves and along the
coasts, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical …

John Stuart Pearse, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology (EEB) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, died on July 31, 2020, at the age of …

NOAA's mission is supported by social science research. NOAA strives to understand and
predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts, to share that knowledge and …

Human impacts on earth span centuries, yet scientific studies cover a fraction of this time.
Historical records collected by local stewards over multiple decades can provide a …