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    Winter 2012

    High School Students Release NOAA Drifter Buoy in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary - Track Its Path and Data On Line!
    In celebration of Earth Day, staff at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary teamed up with local partners to help students participate in NOAA's "Adopt A Drifter" Program. Two local schools from Oak Park High School and a fourth grade class from Montalvo Elementary School are partnering with The International Preparatory School in Santiago, Chile to co-adopt and track the NOAA drifter buoy over the next year. On May 1, 2012 the buoy was released south of Santa Rosa Island within the sanctuary by two eleventh grade students from Oak Park High School. The sanctuary's research vessel Shearwater supported the buoy release trip, which also brought aboard a group of 21 docents from the Ty Warner Sea Center, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, and University of California, Santa Barbara to learn more about the research capacities of the sanctuary and the Channel Islands. Additional NOAA drifter buoy events have also occurred over the past month in Boston, Miami, Mobile, Seattle, and on Maui. Each NOAA drifter is part of a global ocean array that students can follow online, along with the particular drifter they adopted. For more information and to track this buoy online, visit NOAA's Adopt A Drifter Program web site.

    map of buoy in channel islands
    Map of NOAA drifter buoy path and sea surface temperature data 2 1/2 days after deployment on May 1, 2012. Click here for real time data.

    New Factsheets on National Marine Sanctuaries and Local Economies
    Just as national parks and national forests protect and conserve our natural resources on land, national marine sanctuaries do so in the ocean and Great Lakes. Sanctuaries are managed to support lives and livelihoods, and have strong connections to local communities and special places. Now available are a set of factsheets that summarize what we know about the benefit of national marine sanctuaries (including the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary) to local income and jobs.

    Sanctuary Overflight Regulation Amendment (January 2012)
    NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries is announcing an amendment to existing overflight regulations (15 CFR Part 922) for four west coast sanctuaries: Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, Gulf of the Farallones, and Olympic Coast. Although these federal regulations have been in place in most sanctuaries for many years, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries has standardized regulatory language to reflect a consistent and clear regulatory approach. NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries is working with the FAA to change the notation on the charts from “recommended” minimum altitude to “required” minimum altitude. These amendments are intended to better inform pilots, improve resource protection, and potentially reduce the risk to pilots and aircraft from bird strikes. Sanctuary low overflight restrictions pertain to discrete zones within each sanctuary; at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary the regulation applies to areas below 1,000 feet within 1 nautical mile of the islands within the sanctuary. Click here for the Final Rule announcing this regulation amendment, and here for a list of all regulations for the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

    Meet: Rocio Lozano-Knowlton
    Program Coordinator, MERITO
    (Multicultural Education for Resource Issues Threatening Oceans) Program, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.


    New Sanctuary Film “Beneath the Rainbow Bridge: A Journey Through the Channel Islands”
    The recently completed Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary film will be screened at the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival, January 27 through February 6, 2011. The 29-minute documentary was written and directed by
    John Brooks from NOAA's Ocean Media Center, and produced in collaboration with the sanctuary. Filmed in high definition the film immerses viewers in the sanctuary's unique ocean and island ecosystems and explores cultural, recreational, science, and conservation connections to the Channel Islands. The film will be shown in downtown
    Santa Barbara on *Friday, February 4th at 2:00 pm (Metro 4, Theatre IV)* and on *Saturday, February 5th at 1:00 pm (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)*. Full details about the film festival are online at: http://sbiff.org

    From Shore to Sea Lecture Series Update
    Channel Islands National Park, with support from Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, presents the "From Shore to Sea" Lecture Series to engage the public in interesting science and natural history topics related to the Channel Islands. http://nps.gov/chis

    This FREE series will be shown only at Ventura Harbor in the Channel Islands National Park auditorium on the following dates at 7:00 p.m. in 2011:

    September 14, 2011

    October 12
    , 2011
    November 9
    , 2011

    Channel Islands Naturalist Corps
    We are pleased to announce that 25 new Channel Islands Naturalist Corps (CINC) volunteers will be trained by the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and National Park this March 2011. CINC volunteers provide interpretation on local whale watch vessels, lead island hikes on the Channel Islands, as well as represent the sanctuary and park at community outreach events. A warm welcome to our new recruits!

    This is gray whale season! Join a local cruise with our CINC volunteers and experience the magic of the gray whale annual migration in the Santa Barbara Channel. Click here to find out how to get out to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Park http://channelislands.noaa.gov/edu/edu_vessel.html

    Construction Update
    Construction began in April 2010, for the new Ocean Science Education Building which will house the Outreach Center for Teaching Ocean Science (OCTOS) and incorporate the educational outreach programs of UCSB's Marine Science Institute and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Half of the building will house OCTOS and include state-of-the-art interactive exhibits in marine science. The balance of the structure is the new home for CINMS administrative offices. Construction is expected to be complete in Fall 2011. For more information about OCTOS:
    http://www.msi.ucsb.edu/education/outreach-center-teaching-ocean-science-octos

    Links:

    National Ocean Service weekly podcast series on marine topics Making Waves. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast.html

    Thank You Ocean news, activities for kids & more, plus listen to podcasts! http://www.thankyouocean.org

    Protecting your Channel Islands Brochure (with Marine Reserves Map)
    Click here pdf (4.6MB)

     

    Check out the Sanctuaries on YouTube
    "Discover the marine life and extraordinary habitats that make up your nation's 13 national marine sanctuaries and one marine national monument. And find out more about continuing efforts to conserve these ocean and coastal treasures.

    National Ocean Service weekly podcast series on marine topics Making Waves. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast.html

    Thank You Ocean news, activities for kids & more, plus listen to podcasts! http://www.thankyouocean.org

    Protecting your Channel Islands Brochure (with Marine Reserves Map)
    Click here pdf (4.6MB)



     

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