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The North Coast MPA Sandy Beach Surf Zone Team
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Part of the statewide effort studying sandy beach surf zone communities, we work with college students to study fish and invertebrate populations in and adjacent to Marine Protected Areas in the Far Northern Coast.
Paid technicians, mostly graduate and undergraduate Cal Poly Humboldt students, join us on multiple-day and day-long sampling trips where we use beach seines, Baited Remote Underwater Videos and Hook-and-Line fishing to collect surfperches, smelts, sculpins, Dungeness crabs and many other species that inhabit sandy beach surf zones.
Our field sites are located in Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino and Humboldt counties!
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Contacts
For general information and to volunteer:
Noah Gabay, Graduate student and Project Technician
Principal Investigators:
Dr. Jose Marin Jarrin, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Fisheries Biology
Dr. Tim Mulligan, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Fisheries Biology