California Marine Sanctuary Foundation (CMSF)

Water quality protection - cmsf provides technical expertise in the development of monitoring, messaging, and relationship building required to protect California's watersheds. Through work with coastal cities, non-profit organizations, and rural communities, cmsf provides vital data to resource managers focused on improving water quality in creeks, rivers, and storm drains. Cmsf also works to lessen the impact of runoff from agricultural production. Runoff can contain nutrients, pesticides, and plastics that ultimately enter streams, rivers, and the ocean. Our work is solution oriented, founded in strong science, and close relationships with researchers, technical service providers, and growers.

Marine resource protection - through collaborative partnerships cmsf identifies and implements cutting-edge technologies focused on protecting Marine species. Cmsf also coordinates ongoing California efforts to promote sustainable shipping by reducing the risk of ship-strikes on endangered whales through the protecting blue whales and blue skies program.

Climate change mitigation - California Marine Sanctuary Foundation provides technical expertise in the planning and implementation of projects that improve California's climate resiliency. Cmsf works with partners to help research the environmental impacts of the emerging offshore wind industry on the u.s. west coast and guide environmental monitoring. Cmsf works with agricultural growers and ranchers through a partnership with mbnms on climate change mitigation through healthy soil programs, sequestering carbon dioxide into the soils of working lands and slowing the pace of heat and co2 absorption in the ocean.

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