PROTECT OUR LIVING SHORES

There is an evolution from when you start fishing, and once you connect with the bay and ocean, you’ll eventually end up understanding the need to be stewards, good citizens of our planet, and to caretake the resources that we have.

Learn about cetacean sleep, food, and how they thrive just off our shores. Bill Keener is a research biologist at The Marine Mammal Center's Cetacean Field Research team that monitors the living wild populations of cetaceans – whales, dolphins, and porpoises – in the San Francisco Bay area.

Who says science only happens in labs?
Here in Oakland, volunteers are bringing NOAA's national marine debris monitoring program to our Estuary. Everyday people collect real data on what washes up on our shores, and it goes straight into NOAA's database. That's citizen science!