Coastal Connections is an annual booklet series highlighting our research projects in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. There are six volumes from years 2002-2007.
Many organizations use the scientific content and graphics for outreach and education. To receive a print copy of PISCO Coastal Connections or to request specific images for your organization's use, contact us.
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Volume six, 2007
Articles on topics of:
- Kelp forest patterns
- Kelp Bass and California Sheaphead
- Red Abalone
- Shifts in food web dynamics
- Predicting fish dispersal
- The "Dead Zone"
- Poleward flows in S. California
- Invasive mussels along the US West Coast
- Effects of a warming ocean
- Student training
- Outreach and engagement activities
Volume five, 2006
Articles on topics of:
- Hotspots for reproduction and conservation
- Rockfish population ecology
- Fluid mechanics
- Oceanographic research network detecting ocean anomalies
- Larval dispersal
- Long-term changes in kelp forests
- Impacts of regional oceanography on ecological patterns
- Student training
- Outreach and engagement activities
Volume four, 2005
Articles on topics of:
- Physiological responses to ocean warming
- Population replenishment of reef fish
- Spread of withering disease in abalone
- Return of the "Dead Zone"
- Fertilization of kelp beds
- Thin layers in the ocean
- Rockfish population connectivity
- Nutrients and seaweed diversity
- Student training
- Outreach and engagement activities
Volume three, 2004
Articles on topics of:
- Surveying biodiversity from Mexico to Alaska
- Predation by sea stars
- Dramatic local changes in kelp forests
- "Baby booms" on the Pacific Northwest's rocky shores
- Population replenishment and tidal ranges
- Nutrient-rich coastal waters
- Technology to study thin layers in the ocean
- Mapping genetic patterns
- Linking ecology and physiology
- Fish movement studies
- Student training
- Outreach and engagement activities
Volume two, 2003
Articles on topics of:
- Biogeography of marine species
- Keystone predators
- Mapping the rocky shore species
- Dynamics of kelp forests
- Pacific decadal oscillation
- Upwelling and population replenishment
- Oxygen-poor ocean water
- Tracking dispersal of young animals
- Insights from genetics
- Student training
- Outreach and engagement activities
Volume one, 2002
Articles on topics of:
- Geographic ranges of marine species
- El Niño and La Niña impacts on fish
- The PISCO approach
- Technology and research vessels
- Ocean eddies and fish
- Larval dispersal
- Modeling and genetics applied to population connectivity
- Student training
- Outreach and engagement activities