
2020 Highlights, Top Stories and Videos
Check out our annual highlights infographic. Plus, take a look at a our top stories and most popular marine reserve videos from 2020. Read More
Check out our annual highlights infographic. Plus, take a look at a our top stories and most popular marine reserve videos from 2020. Read More
We’re excited to announce the release of our new ODFW Data Dashboard. The dashboard is a website that allows you to explore marine reserves monitoring data collected by ODFW over the last 10 years Read More
One of the core monitoring tools that the ODFW Marine Reserves Program is using in our long-term monitoring of marine reserves are ‘video landers’ – or drop video camera systems – which are lightweight and a relatively cost-effective method to survey rocky reefs here in Oregon Read More
This month we successfully retrieved our oceanographic equipment that had been in the water this summer at Cascade Head, Cape Falcon, and the Cape Meares Comparison Area collecting data on temperature, salinity and oxygen. Read More
We’re diving into past ROV video data to explore changes in the abundance of 11 subtidal sea star species in the Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve. Read More
August has been a month focused on oceanography. We’ve been diligently working up the first oceanographic data collected at Cape Falcon from last year. The results have been very interesting so far. Read More
Results from our intertidal surveys indicate that while Ochre Sea Star densities declined during the sea star wasting outbreak, they are rebounding … Read More
After conducting risk assessments and much deliberation, this month we made the tough decision to cancel our planned fall SCUBA and hook-and-line surveys. Read More
Our team ventured out into the intertidal this month to carry out two days of mussel bed surveys, at Otter Rock and Cascade Head … Read More
Our staff were excited to venture out into the intertidal this week to conduct Sea Star Wasting surveys at Otter Rock and Cascade Head. Read More