California Department of Fish and Game (www.dfg.ca.gov)

1. Guide to Central CA MPAs booklet; MPAs of California’s Central Coast (from Pigeon Point to Pt. Conception), Sept 2007, updated Oct. 2008 (5.1MB PDF file)
   
   
2. Guide to Central CA MPAs brochure; MPAs of California’s Central Coast (from Pigeon Point to Pt. Conception), Sept 2007 (259K PDF file)
   
   
3. MLPA Common Questions and map, May 2007 (338K PDF file)
   
   
4. MLPA Goals – CA Fish and Game Code section 2853, 2008 (11K PDF file)
   
   
5. MLPA Key Facts to the Central Coast MPAs, 2008 (62K PDF file)
   
   
6. MLPA Initiative Participants, 2008 (69K PDF file)
   
   
7. What Are MPAs? MPAs defined in public resources code sections 36602 and 36710, 2008 (11K PDF file)

Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation (www.mbnmsf.org)

8. Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation; Volunteers and Ocean Stewardship: Ways to get involved in ocean and coastal stewardship (Updated) Oct, 2008. (138K PDF file)

1. A Sea Ethic; Floating the Ark by Carl Safina, Blue Ocean Institute, March, 2005. (2.2MB PDF file) (www.blueocean.org/)
   
   
2. America’s Living Oceans, Charting a Course for Sea Change - A Report to the Nation. Recommendations for a new ocean policy, May 2003, by Pew Oceans Commission. (5.6MB PDF file) (www.pewtrusts.org)
   
   
3. CA Ocean Protection Council:  A Vision for Our Ocean & Coast:  5 year strategic plan from 2006. (1.8MB PDF file) (www.resources.ca.gov)
   
   
4. Establishing resilient marine protected area networks - Making it happen IUCN Sept, 2008. (5.4MB PDF file) (data.protectplanetocean.org)
   
   
5. From Sea to Shining Sea; Priorities for Ocean Policy Reform Joint Ocean Commission Initiative Report to the US Senate, June 2006. (257K PDF file) (www.jointoceancommission.org)
   
   
6. Joint Ocean Commission Initiative U.S. Ocean Policy Report Card, Joint Ocean Commission, 2006. (208K PDF file) (www.gulfmex.org)
   
   
7. Joint Ocean Commission, US Commission on Ocean Policy - Report card for 2007. (316K PDF file) (www.ointoceancommission.org)
   
   
8. KQED - QUEST series. Underwater Wilderness; Creating Marine Protected Areas, TV episode, producer Chris Bauer, October 20, 2008 (10 min.) (91.3MB MP4 file) (http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/)
   
   
9. Ocean Conservancy; California’s Ocean Legacy; Marine Protected Areas on the Central Coast, 2007. (807K PDF file) (www.environmentcalifornia.org)
   
   
10. Our Imperiled Oceans Victory at Sea, Christopher Pala, Smithsonian Magazine, September 2008, Science and Nature. (175K PDF file) (www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/victory-at-sea.html)
    
    
11. Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies for Coastal Oceans (PISCO) Science of Marine Reserves – 2nd edition U.S. Version, 2007 (5.7MB PDF file) (www.piscoweb.org)
    
    
12. Protecting our Ocean - California's Action Strategy, CA Resources Agency and CA EPA, September, 2004. (2.6MB PDF file) (www.resources.ca.gov)

Thank You Ocean Podcasts - 2008 (www.thankyouocean.org/podcast/)

13. A Congressman's Perspective About Legislating for the Ocean – Sam Farr (9/22/08) (2.1MB MP3 file)
    
    
14. California Coastal Cleanup Day (9/8/08) (1.6MB MP3 file)
    
    
15. Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (10/6/08) (2.1MB MP3 file)
    
    
16. Marine Protected Areas (6/2/08) (1.7MB MP3 file)
    
    
17. Polluted Water Bodies of California (7/7/08) (2.9MB MP3 file)
    
    
18. Preventing Pollution (8/25/08) (2.4MB MP3 file)
    
    
19. Reducing Urban Runoff (7/21/08) (1.2MB MP3 file)
    
    
20. Sharks at the Farallon Islands (6/16/08) (954K MP3 file)
    
    
21. Ways to Reduce Urban Runoff (8/11/08) (1.0MB MP3 file)
    
    
22. West Coast Governor's Agreement on Ocean Health (7/29/08) (2.6MB MP3 file)
    
    
23. Watchable Wildlife Incorporated, Marine Wildlife Viewing Guidelines January, 2004. (104K PDF file) (sanctuaries.noaa.gov)
    
    
24. Waves, Wetlands, and Watersheds: California Coastal Commission Science Activity Guide, 2003 (Appendix A-D pp.142 –149). (187K PDF file) (www.coastal.ca.gov)
    
    
25. West Coast Governor’s Agreement on Ocean Health (CA, WA, and OR), September, 2006. (216K PDF file) 
    (westcoastoceans.gov)

IN PRINT

California MPAs Past and Present, 2004, Deborah A. McArdle University of California Cooperative Extension Program, Publication No. T-050
www-csgc.ucsd.edu/BOOKSTORE/fee_publications.html

Monitoring MPAs in Deep Water Off Central California–2007 IMPACT Submersible Baseline Survey, Richard Starr and Mary Yoklavich, et al. University of California Cooperative Extension – Sea Grant Program, Publication No. T-067
www-csgc.ucsd.edu/BOOKSTORE/comp_publications.html

A Sea Ethic; Floating the Ark by Carl Safina, Blue Ocean Institute, March, 2005.
www.blueocean.org/

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies for Coastal Oceans (PISCO) Science of Marine Reserves – 2nd edition U.S. Version, 2007.
www.piscoweb.org/files/SMR_US_LowRes.pdf

MARINE CONSERVATION AND POLICY– HELPFUL REFERENCE LINKS

California Coastal Commission
www.coastal.ca.gov/

California Department of Fish and Game
www.dfg.ca.gov/

California Ocean Science Trust
www.calost.org/

California Sea Grant
www-csgc.ucsd.edu/

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
www.iucn.org/search.cfm?uSearchTerm=marine+protected+areas

• IUCN website; World commission On Protected Areas
  cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/wcpamarinefaqen.pdf

Lesson Plans for Teachers (K-12)

• Lesson Planet - a large database of lesson plans per subject, grade level, and with rating scores
  www.lessonplanet.com/

Marine Protected Areas Center
www.mpa.gov

• The State of U.S. Marine Managed Areas: West Coast; Marine Protected Areas Center Lisa Woonik et al., May 2008

MPA Case Studies
Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management (PREM)
www.premonline.org/index.php?p=projects&cid=19

• MPA case study 1: Yuvusa Navakavu Locally Managed Marine Area (Fiji)
• MPA case study 2: Arnavon Community Marine Conservation Area (Solomon Island
• MPA case study 3: Bunaken National Marine Park (Indonesia)
• MPA case study 4: Apo Island (Phillipines)

Marine Conservation Biology Institute
www.mcbi.org/           

National Marine Fisheries Service
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/

Ocean Conservancy
www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=press_icc

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)
www.piscoweb.org/

• PISCO Coastal Connections Magazine (Volumes 1-6, 2002 to 2007)
• PISCO Data Catalogue
• PISCO Interactive data bases
• PISCO Marine Taxonomic Data Bases
• PISCO Popular literature and other publications
• PISCO Science and Literature link
• PISCO Science of Marine Reserves 2007
• PISCO Short Attention Span Science Theater
• PISCO The Science of Marine Reserves Film

Protect Planet Ocean, Marine Reserves Around the World; Effects of no-take marine preserves
www.protectplanetocean.org/somr/effectsInside.html

The Living Oceans Initiative
itrs.scu.edu/kwarner/6-163LivingOceansInitiative.pdf

The Ocean Communicator’s Alliance
www.thankyouocean.org/oca
The California Ocean Communicators Alliance is a group of over 200 communications professionals in ocean-related organizations, agencies and businesses who are working together to create a strong voice for the ocean in California. Groups are listed according to the following topics:

• Ocean Protection
• Film, Photography and the Media
• Recreation
• Educational Programming
• Wildlife
• Research
• Aquariums and Museums
• Federal Government
• State Government

West Coast National Marine Sanctuary websites:

• Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
  channelislands.noaa.gov
  
  
• Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
  cordellbank.noaa.gov
  
  

• Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
  farallones.noaa.gov
  
  
• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary website
  montereybay.noaa.gov
  
  
• Natural Wonders of Davidson Seamount (video), 2006
  montereybay.noaa.gov/new/2008/092608dsm.html
  
  
• Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation website
  www.mbnmsf.org
  
  
• Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network (SIMoN) website
  www.sanctuarysimon.org

Workshop speaker-associated websites:

• Mark Carr, Biological Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  www.eeb.ucsc.edu/faculty/carr.html

• Steve Palumbi; The Palumbi Lab, Marine Population Biology, Marine Ecology, and Evolution
  /www.stanford.edu/group/Palumbi/

• Rick Starr, CA Sea Grant Extension Service
  www-csgc.ucsd.edu/ABOUTUS/ADVISORS/Starr.html

50 Ways to Save the Ocean (book), by David Helvang, Inner Ocean Publishing, Inc. 2006.
ISBN:  1-930722-66-4