Our team in Washington came across an aggregation of sunflower stars during a survey on Camano island last weekend. They saw "hundreds of little pycnopodia, most were between 10-13 cm and few were larger 25-40 cm." #sunflowerstar #pycnopodia #reefcheck #citizenscience #kelpforest

Great article in this morning's SF Chronicle! Hope for kelp restoration in California, as underwater forest returns to Monterey Bay sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via San Francisco Chronicle

"We learn our indicator species and then we stop looking at and IDing other species." David Kushner, Naturalist of the Year, #WSN2022 I'm so guilty of that. I'm going to try to change that about myself and from now on be constantly looking for things that aren't on my list.

#WSN2022 such an amazing conference! So great to see so many friends and colleges and to see so many great talks, including two from Reef Check about some of our kelp restoration projects. #kelpforests

pres·ent·ism /ˈpreznˌ(t)iz(ə)m/ noun 1uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.

Reef Check Data through the end of 2021 on inverts, kelp, and UPC is now available via the data request form on or website. Fish data and 2022 data will be available soon! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@OrdoaleaP What language?