Winter
2008
Check
out the Sanctuaries on YouTube
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What's New on the Thank You Ocean Web site? Ocean
news, activities for kids more, plus listen to the current
podcast on the 4 National Marine Sanctuaries! Click
here
The National Ocean Service has a new weekly podcast series
called Making Waves. The third in the series will be on the
CINMS Whale Monitoring here: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast.html
The Sanctuary Advisory Council's (SAC) Superintendent's Report
is a public, bi-monthly report of sanctuary activities including
Resource Protection, Research & Monitoring, Education,
Volunteer & Outreach, and Maritime Heritage.
Click here
to download a copy in
pdf format.
*The SAC is currently recruiting two more positions:
Commercial Fishing and Business Alternate Members. Click
here for more information or contact Danielle.Lipski@noaa.gov
Click
here to see the new Reducing Ship Strikes on
Large Cetaceans Web page for details.
Don't
miss our From Shore to Sea
Lectures in Santa Barbara
& Ventura the 2nd consecutive Tuesday & Wednesday
of each
month! Ann Huston, Chief of Cultural Resources of Channel
Islands National Park, will speak about the history of the
Caire family on Santa Cruz Island on December 9 and 10, 2008.
Click here for more info.
Updated CINMS Events Calendar for first quarter 2009 Click
here
Ocean
Science Education Building Environmental Document
Due to the large file size, the document has
been separated into two files.
Click
here for OSEB NEPA Final FEA
pdf
(50MB)
Click here
for Appendix A - OSEB CEQA Final IS/MND
pdf
(24MB)
Click
here for more info @ the UCSB Office of Campus
Planning and Design
The
California Coastal Commission is inviting artists,
designers, and photographers to enter a contest to design
a new WHALE TAIL license plate. Purchases of this plate in
California fund marine and coastal education and conservation
programs throughout the state. The deadline for entries is
5 p.m., Thursday, January 15, 2009. Click
here to see contest webpage including guidelines,
entry form, and FAQs.
Protecting your Channel Islands Brochure now
available!
Click here
pdf
(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.