On Saturday morning, June 20, SCUBA divers will converge on Coral Street Cove, a popular dive site in Pacific Grove, to collect marine life population information on the nearshore rocky reefs. The surveys are part of two citizen science programs that train volunteer recreational SCUBA divers and snorkelers to conduct field surveys - REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation, www.reef.org) and Reef Check (www.reefcheck.org).
DCoSV Annual Fish count - event starts at 8am Lovers Beach in Pacific Grove CA with BBQ starting at 11am
Basic Fish ID Seminar, offered by the Dive Club of Silicon Valley FREE of charge. PADI IDC Staff Instructor Michael Davis will be teach the course. Upon completing this basics ID seminar you should be able to identify most fish in the Monterey Bay area. Also, you will learn how to conduct REEF surveys while diving.
Basic Fish ID Seminar, offered by the Dive Club of Silicon Valley FREE of charge. PADI IDC Staff Instructor Michael Davis will teach this course. Upon completing this basics ID seminar you should be able to identify most fish in the Monterey Bay area. Also, you will learn how to conduct REEF surveys while diving.
Marine Invertebrate ID Seminar, offered by the Dive Club of Silicon Valley FREE of charge. NOAA scientist Dr. Steve Lonhart will teach this course. Upon completing this basics ID seminar you should be able to identify most common Invertebrates in the Monterey Bay area. Also, you will learn how to conduct REEF surveys while diving.
Place: Diver Dan's in Santa Clara
Place: Diver Dan's in Santa Clara
Survey Dive and BBQ offered by the Dive Club of Silicon Valley FREE of charge. Join the fun for a fun filled day.
Place: Lovers Beach in Pacific Grove
Place: Lovers Beach in Pacific Grove
Divers are invited to a seminar on marine fish identification for California SCUBA divers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) on Saturday, June 20th at 3:00pm. The seminar is led by Gil Falcone, MBA dive safety officer, and John Wolfe, a volunteer for Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF). REEF's roving diver technique for conducting fish surveys will also be described. Divers can meet beforehand at 9:30am at Coral Street cove to practice in-water fish ID.
A Free Fish ID class will be given at the Desert Dolphins meeting on June 17 in Tucson. We will follow with dive trips to San Carlos, MX to count fish for REEF and the Great American Fish Count.
Join the 8th Annual Northeast GAFC event in Gloucester, MA on July 25, 2009. Shore dives will be conducted at 8 locations around Cape Ann, MA and Nubble Light, York, Maine. Completed survey forms will enter divers into a free volunteer fish counters raffle currently valued at $8,000.00. Grand prizes include a dive trip to Bonaire, Dive in the New England Aquarium Giant Ocean Tank, Regulators, 3 wetsuits and Split Fins.
Amateur photographers may enter by submitting a photo taken in July 2009 while conducting a fish or invertebrate survey for the Reef Environmental Education Foundation's Great Annual Fish Count.
Grand Prize: Free dive charter for two from Naknek Charters and Diving in Friday Harbor, WA
Winners in each category receive a SeaDoc imprinted coffee mug, and everyone who enters gets a seashore life pocket field guide and SeaDoc sticker.
Grand Prize: Free dive charter for two from Naknek Charters and Diving in Friday Harbor, WA
Winners in each category receive a SeaDoc imprinted coffee mug, and everyone who enters gets a seashore life pocket field guide and SeaDoc sticker.