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Sea Star Wasting Syndrome Articles

Listed below are articles and interviews regarding work done by the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe).

abalone researchers

Bringing black abalone back from the brink

Mesa, Natalia. High Country News, 01 Feb 2025.

satellite coastal imagery

Using Science to Restore Polluted Coastal Environments on the West Coast

Office of Response and Restoration. NOAA, 05 December 2024.

close up of abalone

Haliotis: Stories of Connection to a Species in Peril

Warneke, AM, Lombardo, KL, & Ready, MJ 2024. Haliotis: Stories of Connection to a Species in Peril. ESRI ArcGIS Online: Storymap. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4b6c5550dfa14b24949f12dbec19c53e

close up of silvetia

Racing Tides: Restoring Rockweed in the California Channel Islands

Warneke, A.M., Whitaker, S.G, Lombardo, K., & Ready, M. 2024. Racing Tides: Restoring Rockweeds in the California Channel Islands. ESRI ArcGIS Online: Storymap. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ebbe891513447a1a61ce7d8c5208be0

researchers looking for abalone

Fire, Rain and Abalone

Marshall-Chalmers, Anne. KALW Crosscurrents, 04 April 2023.

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s Fisheries Department dig clams on a beach in Skagit Bay as part of a survey

Monitoring the Damage in the Heat Wave’s Wake

Larson, Samantha. Sea Star, Autumn 2022.

abalone buried by debris

California’s Endangered Black Abalone Face Unique Challenges

Roest, Michele. National Marine Sanctuaries News, 22 Jan 2022.

sea stars in a tidepool

California’s Marine Protected Areas are safeguarding rocky intertidal zones

DeFranco, Elyse. California Sea Grant, 13 Oct 2021.

abalone being returned to rocks

Black abalone returned to Big Sur coastline after winter rescue

Santuary Integrated Monitoring Network, 20 Jul 2021.

resettling abalone

The Race to Save Endangered Black Abalone From Post-Wildfire Debris Flows

Bragg, Wendy. National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Blog, 8 Jul, 2021

abalone in magazine article

Fire, Mud and Abalone

Chan, Kenan. Oceanographic, 4 Jun 2021

abalone in rock crevice

Scientists Race to Rescue Endangered Black Abalone

Malsbury, Erin. Good Times, 25 May 2021.

abalone researcher closeup

Researchers rescue endangered black abalone buried by debris flows

Stephens, Tim. UCSC Newscenter, 23 Apr 2021.

drone mosaic of debris flow

Wildfires and flooding trigger black abalone rescue effort

Kathleen Wong. UC Natural Reserve System Newsletter, 19 April 2021.

locating abalone image

Rush to rescue thousands of endangered abalone buried in Big Sur landslides

Alexander, Kurtis. San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr 2021.

debris flow view

Wildfire, Landslides Threaten California’s Endangered Black Abalone

Marshall-Chalmers, Anne. Earth Island Journal, 22 Feb 2021.

half buried abalone

Debris flows bury endangered black abalone

Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network, 16 Feb 2021.


Additional Articles

An Intertidal Study: Surveying California’s Farallon Islands (Mar 21, 2018)

Exploring California’s Marine Protected Areas: Gerstle Cove State Marine Reserve (Mar 3, 2018)

10 Years Later: Restoring Injured Natural Resources after Cosco Busan (Nov 7, 2017)

Ten Years After the Spill, a Look at Where the Cosco Busan Settlement Funding Went (Nov 7, 2017)

Just What Lives on the Rocks of Calvert Island? (Oct 5, 2017)

On the Importance of Long-term Monitoring (Jan 30, 2017)

Last modified: Sep 03, 2025