Aqua Mare will be our home for a week while we embark on what is less of a cruise and more of a luxury safari at sea, island ...

Visiting Southern California’s archipelago takes planning and an adventurous spirit, but it’s worth the effort.

You don't hear the impending arrival of a whale at first; you feel it. There's a shift in the atmosphere, a sudden silence, and then a blow with a breath so heavy that it cuts through the air with ...

Heather Welch, University of California, Santa Cruz ... reserves were designed to protect static features, such as sensitive bottom habitat and nursery grounds. In a study, we assessed how well ...

Firefighters made significant progress Thursday battling a 250-acre wildfire on Santa Cruz Island, getting the fire ... efforts were assisted by a marine layer and light winds providing ...

(Photo by Priya Ganguli) Cossaboon collected samples of molted elephant seal pelage for mercury analysis at Año Nuevo State Reserve. Año Nuevo Island is ... College (UC Santa Cruz), the Dr. Earl H.

See All Key Ideas Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California ... scientists at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) have studied the seals ...

Another five islands make up the Channel Islands National Park, which was established in 1980 alongside the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary ... mainland to Santa Cruz Island's Scorpion ...

SANTA BARBARA ... Harbor on Santa Cruz Island. This is the fourth year of collaborative cleanups at the Channel Islands for Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation ...

(Annie Lovell photo) Twenty-nine volunteers, fishers, and representatives from local organizations and businesses cleared 5,763 pounds of trash and debris from Chinese Harbor on Santa Cruz Island.

“This is all I have of my daughter,” he said.Yadira Alvarez is the mother of 16-year-old Berenice Felipe, who volunteered at an animal shelter and dreamed of becoming a marine ...

Because there are so many different kinds of passenger vessels, the critical topic of passenger safety can sometimes appear as a set of niche topics, each one just distantly connected to another.