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Thank you for your interest in MPA Watch! Our program is not possible without the commitment of our dedicated volunteers. MPA Watch programs across the state of California are continually training a network of volunteers to monitor resource use inside and outside Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Volunteers are trained to identify onshore and offshore ocean activities and collect data on coastal and marine resource use.

Ready to sign up?

Click below to find the organization in your community to get involved in their MPA program.
The following organizations are currently operating MPA Watch programs:

Heal the Bay - Los Angeles County
Jenna Segal, jsegal@healthebay.org

Los Angeles Waterkeeper - Los Angeles County
Michael Quill, mquill@lawaterkeeper.org

Orange County Coastkeeper - Orange County
Ray Hiemstra, ray@coastkeeper.org

West Marin Environmental Action Committee - Marin County
Morgan Patton, morgan@eacmarin.org

California Academy of Sciences

Rebecca Johnson, rjohnson@calacademy.org

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper - Santa Barbara County
Penny Owens, penny@sbck.org

WILDCOAST - San Diego County
Angela Kemsley, angela@wildcoast.net

Greater Farallones Association - San Francisco County
Kirsten Lindquist, klindquist@farallones.org

Outdoor Schools

 

Kat Montgomery, kat@campoceanpines.org

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Geo PDF Maps

For use with the Avenza Maps app.  After downloading the app, volunteers can load maps onto their smart phones by scanning a QR code, or through PDFs downloaded and added to the app through iTunes File Sharing, Android File System, Dropbox.  Links to QR codes and PDFs are just below.  NOTE: Each PDF shows high resolution aerial imagery and averages about 50mb in size.

Abalone Cove SMCA  

Ano Nuevo SMR Greyhound Rock SMCA  

Asilomar SMR  

Batiquitos Lagoon SMCA (No Take)  

Big Creek SMCA and SMR  

Big Flat SMCA  

Big River Estuary SMCA  

Bodega Head SMR SMCA  

Bolsa Bay SMCA  

Bolsa Chica Basin SMCA No Take  

Cabrillo SMR  

Cambria SMCA  

Campus Point SMCA No Take  

Carmel Bay SMCA  

Carmel Pinnacles SMR  

Castle Rock Special Closure  

Crystal Cove SMCA  

Dana Point SMCA  

Del Mar Landing SMR  

Double Cone Rock SMCA  

Double Point Stormy Stack Rock Special Closure  

Drakes Estero SMCA  

Duxbury Reef SMCA  

Edward F Ricketts SMCA  

Egg Devils Slide Rock to Devils Slide Special Closure  

Elkhorn Slough SMCA  

Elkhorn Slough SMR  

Estero Americano SMRMA  

Estero de Limantour SMR  

Estero de San Antonio SMRMA  

False Klamath Rock Special Closure  

Famosa Slough SMCA (No Take)  

Gerstle Cove SMR  

Goleta Slough SMCA (No Take)  

Kashtayit SMCA  

Laguna Beach SMCA No Take  

Laguna Beach SMR  

Lovers Point Julia Platt SMR  

MacKerricher SMCA  

Mattole Canyon SMR and Sea Lion Gulch SMR  

Moro Cojo Slough SMR  

Morro Bay SMR  

Morro Bay SMRMA  

Naples SMCA  

Natural Bridges SMR  

Navarro River Estuary SMCA  

North Farallon Islands  

Pacific Grove Marine Gardens SMCA  

Piedras Blancas SMCA and SMR  

Point Arena SMCA and SMR  

Point Arena SMR  

Point Buchon SMCA and SMR  

Point Cabrillo SMR  

Point Conception SMR  

Point Dume SMCA  

Point Dume SMR  

Point Lobos SMCA Point Lobos SMR Carmel Bay SMCA Carmel Pinnacles SMR  

Point Lobos SMR  

Point Resistance Rock Special Closure  

Point Reyes SMCA Point Reyes Headlands Special Closure  

Point Reyes SMR  

Point Sur SMCA and SMR  

Point Vicente SMCA No Take  

Portuguese Ledge SMCA  

Point St. George Reef Offshore SMCA Southwest Seal Rock Special Closure  

Pyramid Point SMCA  

Reading Rock SMCA and SMR  

Russian Gulch SMCA  

Russian River SMCA  

Russian River SMRMA  

Salt Point SMCA Gerstle Cove SMR  

Samoa SMCA  

San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA and Matlahuayl SMR  

San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA and Matlahuayl SMR and South La Jolla SMR and SMCA  

San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA and Matlahuayl SMR  

San Elijo Lagoon SMCA No Take  

Saunders Reef SMCA  

Sea Lion Cove SMCA  

Soquel Canyon SMCA  

South Cape Mendocino SMR Sugarloaf Island Special Closure Steamboat Rock Special Closure  

South Humboldt Bay SMRMA  

Southeast Farallon Island  

Stewarts Point SMCA  

Stewarts Point SMR and SMCA  

Sugarloaf Island Special Closure Steamboat Rock Special Closure  

Stewarts Point SMR SMCA  

Swami's SMCA  

Ten Mile Estuary SMCA  

Ten Mile SMR Ten Mile Beach SMCA  

Tijuana River Mouth SMCA  

Upper Newport Bay SMCA  

Van Damme SMCA  

Vandenberg SMR  

Vizcaino Rock and Rockport Rocks Special Closures  

White Rock SMCA  

Regional Maps

North Coast Region:

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Central Coast Region:

South Coast Region: