Currently, Beach Watch volunteers monitor 41 beach segments
every two to four weeks from Bodega Head in Sonoma County to
Año Nuevo County on the San Mateo/Santa Cruz county line.
Methods
Survey methods along each beach segment include:
- Live bird and marine mammal count,
- Visitor/dog activity notation,
- Beached (dead) vertebrate documentation,
- General wrack and invertebrate assessment,
- Oil/tarball documentation, and
- Streams and lagoons status
Baseline Biological Data
Consistently gathered beached vertebrate data from the shoreline
of the Sanctuary provide baseline species mortality rates. Live
bird and mammal data is useful as a species index and can provide
known location of threatened and endangered species to direct
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View the Data
Come to the Sanctuary public workstation to view the Beach Watch data.
Please contact Shannon Lyday at beachwatch@farallones.org for more information.
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