Santa Monica Baykeeper

Action Alerts

Save Rocky Point!

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Guide to Marine Life Protection Act Support Click Here

Clean Water in Malibu!

Support the Septic Prohibition

Recent News

08-04-2010

Federal Court Finds Malibu Violated Clean Water Act

07-08-2010

LA Times reports that EPA declares L.A River to be 'traditional navigable waters'

06-26-2010

Hands Across the Sand at Santa Monica Pier

06-13-2010

Celebrated World Oceans Day with a paddle out and reporters on the Baykeeper boat

Events

September 11th and 12th, 2010

Stop by the Baykeeper booth on Surfrider Beach in Malibu

September 25th, 2010

Stone Canyon Creek Restoration
Please help Santa Monica Baykeeper restore Stone Canyon Creek on UCLA's campus!

September 25th, 2010

Coastal Cleanup Day - Redondo Beach King Harbor

September 26th, 2010

Abbot Kinney Festival

Baykeeper will have a booth at the Abbot Kinney Festival.

COASTWEEKS Sept. 25 - Oct. 17

Go to the California Coastal Commissions website to find events throughout LA County

Connect With SMBK

Kelp Project Species Identification

Click here to go back to Baykeeper Kelp Page

Species Sampled in Quadrats | Species Sampled in Band Transects

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Invasive Species to look for


*Sargassum muticum* Young plants have flat, symmetrical (fern-like) fronds with a notched tip. Older specimens are 1+ m tall and loosely branched with small oval bladders and long finger-like receptacles Click Here for More Information	*Caulerpa taxifolia* Brilliant green flat, leafy (fern-like) fronds Click Here for More Information	**Undaria pinnatifida** Alga with wide brown to yellow-tan blades, Mature plants have a divided midrib, holdfast, stipe (stem). Young plants have holdfast, stipe, undivided blade and initally no midrib Click Here for More Information

The Kelp Project also looks for and records all other notable species encountered during sampling.

Click here to go back to Baykeeper Kelp Page

Species Sampled in Quadrats | Species Sampled in Band Transects

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Special thanks to volunteer diver Ian Craig for donating his pictures!

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