Marine Primary Production in Relation to Climate. Variability and Change. Francisco P. Chavez, Monique Messié, and J. Timothy Pennington. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, California 95039; email: chfr@mbari.org. Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci. 2011. 3:227–60. read more
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is located on the eastern edge of the northeast Pacific (NEP), a region that experiences large variations of the atmosphere and ocean that can strongly affect environmental conditions in the Sanctuary. read more
In the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary a variety of research groups are dedicated to collecting and analyzing information about the upwelling process. The UC Santa Cruz Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT) is collecting data on wind, primary productivity, krill, ocean temperature, seabirds, whales, and other components of the upwelling system. read more