Free Tours of the Santa Cruz Wharf

Learn firsthand about CeNCOOS supported work in Santa Cruz!

Free tours of the Santa Cruz Wharf are offered year-round Sat & Sun at 1 and 3 PM. Docents from the Seymour Marine Discovery Center lead these guided 30-minute tours of science at the wharf.

At the wharf, CeNCOOS supports a water quality station and harmful algal bloom monitoring.

Fellowship Announcement from California Sea Grant

California Sea Grant is now accepting applications for the Delta Science Fellows Program from qualified individuals to compete for predoctoral and postdoctoral research fellowship opportunities. More information on the fellowships can be found here.

Additional job announcements, funding and other opportunities can be found under News and Events on the Opportunities page. If you would like us to post an opportunity, send us an email.

AIS Product Update

The CeNCOOS AIS ship tracking product has been upgraded to include the recommended tracks through the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary for vessels carrying hazardous cargo in bulk and for vessels over 300 gross tons. The Transportation Separation Schemes (TSS) for the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas have also been added as a map layer.

IOOS Regional Coordinator Visits CeNCOOS

This April IOOS Regional Coordinator Jenifer Rhoades visited CeNCOOS in San Francisco and Santa Cruz.

She visited the Santa Cruz shore station, Newell Garfield’s labs at the Romberg Tiburon Center, HF Radar sites in the SF Bay, and the new San Francisco Exploratorium facility.

CODAR Tests Low Power Transceiver at Big Creek

In conjunction with the Naval Postgraduate School, a CeNCOOS HF radar operator, CODAR Ocean Sensors, a CeNCOOS member, has installed a new low power transceiver at a CeNCOOS HF radar site south of Monterey Bay. This SeaSonde unit with low power configuration will allow deployment of HF radars in remote areas for surface current mapping.