Sevengill sharks of California, Photo ID and Community Science

Michael Bear is the President and co-founder of Ocean Sanctuaries and a board member of Shark Stewards. He manages the Sevengill Shark ID Project, which uses the pattern recognition algorithms contained in ‘Wildbook’ to help identify Sevengills returning to La Jolla [and Cape Town] from year-to-year. We are leading dive trips and recruiting divers who dive the san Diego area to submit photographs of sevengill sharks to photo ID using an algorithm.

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Snapshot Cal Coast- Surveying our MPAs

  Led by the California Academy of Sciences with support from the MPA Collaborative Network and other partners including our Golden Gate MPA Collaborative, together we are creating a snapshot in time of where species are located along our coast

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Snapshot CalCoast: Collecting Data in California MPAs

As part of the California Marine Protected Area Collaborative Network,  Shark Stewards is participating with the California Academy of Sciences and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in subtidal surveys of California MPAs as part of the Snapshot Cal Coast.

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Citizen Science

Join us for a Citizen Science Kayak Experience on Richardson Bay, Sausalito on the San Francisco Bay.

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