BayQuest Rising Tides is a neighborhood-driven outreach shoreline/at-sea education program designed to engage young people from disadvantaged communities around the bay area through education, public nature events and onboard eco-tours.
Its goal is to elevate awareness and foster participation in efforts to prepare for sea rise resiliency, watershed protection and equitable coastal access while facilitating on-the-water conservation efforts to protect whales and other endangered marine wildlife on San Francisco Bay.
This fun, hands-on learning experience provides a gateway for meaningful involvement in wildlife and shoreline conservation while helping to spark the imagination of young people from local communities historically harmed by systemic bias in the sciences.
BayQuest SeaSounds Project is a passive acoustic monitoring program designed to create a library of underwater sounds and spectrographic visualizations for assessing the health of the bay and wildlife in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the adjacent San Francisco Strait.
Deploying a sensitive vessel-based hydrophone system beneath the Golden Gate and near coastal shipping lanes, it is intended to develop a baseline for measuring ambient underwater rhythms while comparing them to anthropogenic noise from passing vessels. Analyzing this data can help determine if such disturbances are creating measurable differences in the behavior and vocalizations of whales and other endangered marine mammals during migrations and foraging activity.
The ultimate goal of this project is to provide real-time, measurable data to support organizations, institutions and policymakers in efforts to minimize the increasing occurrences of whale mortality and injuries from vessel-strikes and entanglements in offshore fishing gear.
BayQuest Rising Tides is a neighborhood-driven outreach shoreline/at-sea education program designed to engage young people from disadvantaged communities around the bay area through education, public nature events and onboard eco-tours.
Its goal is to elevate awareness and foster participation in efforts to prepare for sea rise resiliency, watershed protection and equitable coastal access while facilitating on-the-water conservation efforts to protect whales and other endangered marine wildlife on San Francisco Bay.
This fun, hands-on learning experience provides a gateway for meaningful involvement in wildlife and shoreline conservation while helping to spark the imagination of young people from local communities historically harmed by systemic bias in the sciences.
BayQuest SeaSounds Project is a passive acoustic monitoring program designed to create a library of underwater sounds and spectrographic visualizations for assessing the health of the bay and wildlife in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the adjacent San Francisco Strait.
Deploying a sensitive vessel-based hydrophone system beneath the Golden Gate and near coastal shipping lanes, it is intended to develop a baseline for measuring ambient underwater rhythms while comparing them to anthropogenic noise from passing vessels. Analyzing this data can help determine if such disturbances are creating measurable differences in the behavior and vocalizations of whales and other endangered marine mammals during migrations and foraging activity.
The ultimate goal of this project is to provide real-time, measurable data to support organizations, institutions and policymakers in efforts to minimize the increasing occurrences of whale mortality and injuries from vessel-strikes and entanglements in offshore fishing gear.