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	Ocean.com - Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries
		The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) was designated in 1990 and encompasses 2,800 square nautical miles surrounding the Florida Keys archipelago.
		Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary includes our nation's largest kelp forest, one of North America's largest underwater canyons and the closest-to-shore deep ocean environment in the continental United States.
		In this online guide, you will find photos, streaming video and important biological information for over 100 marine species from each of the Marine Sanctuaries in the United States.
	www.ocean.com /eos

	Photo Gallery - Channel Islands
		More than 1000 species of aquatic plants, fish, invertebrates, marine mammals and marine birds are found within the protected waters of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and new species are continually being discovered.
		The islands of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary are located between 11 and 65 miles (18-105 kilometers) off the Santa Barbara coast.
		For a more detailed description of the marvels of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary visit the
	www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov /pgallery/pgchannel/pgchannel.html

	NMS - Sanctuaries - Channel Islands
		The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is located 25 miles (22 nautical miles) off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.
		This satellite image shows warm (yellow, orange, and red) and cool (blue) sea surface temperatures around the Channel Islands.
		Since its designation in September 1980, sanctuary objectives have focused on balancing the protection of marine animals, habitats and prehistoric tribal artifacts with ever increasing recreational and commercial activities.
	www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov /oms/omschannel/omschannel.html

	Boston.com / News / Nation / War tanker's perils surface in Pacific
		Marine Sanctuary and its collection of sensitive habitats.
		After reading a newspaper story, Richard Quincy called marine sanctuary officials with the answer: At Port San Luis, the Vancouver-bound ship had taken on Santa Maria crude -- oil so thick it had to be heated just to flow.
		Sanctuary officials are considering a Montebello display in a visitor center near San Simeon, and it's not too soon for Quincy.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/22/war_tankers_perils_surface_in_pacific

	Franko's Channel Islands Mini Map & Kelp Forest Creatures (fish card)
		Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary are beautifully reproduced from the Franko's Map bearing the same name/ Details of each of the five islands appear, along with many of the areas marine mammals, plus ocean depth contours.
		Side 1 shows Franko’s Map of Channel Islands National Park is a miniature of the same map on side 1 of Franko’s Map of Channel Islands National Park and National Marine Sanctuary.
		Channel Islands Kelp Forest Creatures includes fish and invertebrates common to the area, which might be seen by snorkelers, scuba divers, or even swimmers, boaters and kayakers.
	www.frankosmaps.com /Channel_Islands_Mini_Map.htm

	The Seattle Times: Travel: Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary: California's offshore natural treasure
		For years, many people in nearby Santa Barbara, frequently ranked one of America's top 10 tourist destinations, haven't had a clue about the 1,252-square-nautical-mile Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, even though it was established in 1980.
		The island is the largest of the four in the Channel Islands National Park off Santa Barbara, Calif.
		This rocky beach is one of many in Channel Islands National Park, off the coast of Ventura, Calif. More tourists are visiting the islands, lured by the stunning natural beauty and diverse wildlife.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2001584006_channelislands24.html

	Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Special Projects
		During 2000 and 2001, REEF and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary organized several special projects to increase REEF survey effort within the Sanctuary.
		In June of 2000, an expedition Team composed of REEF Advanced Assessment members from around the country converged on the southern California coast to participate in a project with the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).
		More than 40 species were documented during the project including 3 species new to the Channel Islands REEF fish survey records.
	www.reef.org /sanctuaries/CINMSprojects.htm

	USGS WR CMG OF03-85 Nearshore Benthic Habitat GIS for the Channel Islands
		Also in 1980, a 1,252 square-nautical-mile area of the Santa Barbara Channel was designated as the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).
		In 1980, Congress designated Anacapa, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands and 125,000 acres of submerged lands extending 1 nautical mile (nmi) offshore as the Channel Islands National Park because they possess unique natural and cultural resources.
		The sanctuary's objectives are to enhance resource protection, preserve natural beauty, and preserve the bounty of marine ecosystems.
	geopubs.wr.usgs.gov /open-file/of03-85

	Wallin's Dive Center - Links
		Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary - provides a wealth of information on the creatures and communities found within the national marine sanctuary http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/bio.html
		The Marine Mammal Center is a private, nonprofit organization based in Sausalito, California that rescues, rehabilitates and releases orphaned, injured, or stranded marine mammals along a thousand mile stretch of California coastline, from Mendocino County to San Luis Obispo County, including the entire San Francisco Bay Area.
		The center conducts research into marine mammal health and immunology, and provides educational programs.
	www.wallins.com /links/index.html

	Bren School - People : Bruce Kendall
		Marine protected area design and monitoring using satellite data: a prototype study in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA: $320,000).
		The highlights of his years between college and grad school include bicycling across the country, working at the environmental education center for the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, spending a year as an agricultural intern at the Land Institute in Kansas, and working at a commercial trout hatchery in Massachusetts.
		From 1996 through 1998 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (UC Santa Barbara), where he studied the causes of population cycles.
	www.bren.ucsb.edu /people/usernew.asp?user=kendall

	Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Christens New Research Vessel
		Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is one of 13 marine sanctuaries administered by the Commerce Department's NOAA.
		Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Christens New Research Vessel
		Today, 13 national marine sanctuaries encompass more than 18,000 square miles of America’s ocean and Great Lakes natural and cultural resources.
	www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov /releases2003/may03/noaa03r420.html

	California Creates Channel Islands Marine Reserves
		Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary sits at the junction of warm and cold ocean streams, offering a unique marine environment that provides exceptional habitat and breeding areas for many aquatic creatures, including more than 20 threatened or endangered species.
		The 175 square miles of protected areas around the Channel Islands are the nation's third largest marine reserve, behind the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
		Effective January 1, 2003, the decision sets aside 132 square nautical miles (175 square miles) within the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary in 13 separate areas where most or all fishing will not be allowed.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/CIreserve2002.htm

	Channel Islands National Park Information Page
		Channel Islands National Park is home to a wide variety of nationally and internationally significant natural and cultural resources.
		Island foxes probably colonized the southern Channel Islands of Santa Catalina, San Nicolas and San Clemente through trade by these island people.
		Islands also bring diversity by providing shelf areas where sunlight can penetrate the water, and plants such as the giant bladder kelp can grow.
	www.channel.islands.national-park.com /info.htm

	Franko's Map Channel Islands National Park & National Marine Sanctuary
		Side 1 Beautiful map of Northern Channel Islands and coast, kelp forest creatures, detailed descriptions of each island, underwater photos, scuba sites located and described, marine sanctuary boundaries shown, plus a description physical and underwater features.
		This map is sometimes referred to as the Channel Islands Dive Map, because it shows the locations of the Channel Islands National Park’s favorite, famous dive spots.
		Anacapa Island, which actually consists of three islets, East, West and Middle Anacapa Islands, is shown with its popular landing site, Landing Cove, where tourists commonly land, climb 138 steps up the plateau top, and visit the lighthouse and Western gull rookery.
	www.frankosmaps.com /Channel_Islands.htm

	GIS in Action - Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
		The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS), located off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, is involved in a process to site marine ecological reserves (i.e., areas dedicated to preserving, enhancing, and rebuilding habitat diversity) within its boundary.
		CI-SSAT was developed to assist the Channel Islands marine reserve working group visualize and query the complex data and information needed to site marine reserves.
		As the creation of marine reserves can often be a contentious issue for coastal communities, the need for a neutral tool that helps to support the decision process and allow public participation in that process is vital.
	www.csc.noaa.gov /pagis/html/cinms_act.htm

	Marine Reserves Overview
		The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (SAC) is at the heart of the process.
		The Sanctuary and the California Department of Fish and Game developed a joint state and federal process to consider marine reserves in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
		This process stems from our shared concern for protecting and sustaining Channel Islands marine resources and our overlapping and complimentary jurisdiction.
	www.cinms.nos.noaa.gov /marineres/main.html

	Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Home
		4, 2004 -- "Three previously unknown sea creatures have been found at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary by Georgia Southern University scientists working there to document all the invertebrates living at the sanctuary.
		The National Marine Sanctuaries program is part of the Office of Ocean and Coastal and Resource Management (OCRM), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
		The creatures are types of sea squirts -- also known as tunicates -- bottom dwelling invertebrate animals that are part of the rich diversity of species found at the sanctuary."
	www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov

	Defenders of Wildlife - California Programs - Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
		Sea otters are just one of the many species that will benefit from an extensive network of marine reserves, not only within the proposed Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, but throughout California.
		The California Fish and Game Commission will be deciding shortly on how large a marine reserve area to set aside within the Channel Islands National Marine
		Located off the coast of Santa Barbara, the Channel Islands are home to over 2,000 species of marine plants and animals, including the endangered blue whale.
	www.defenders.org /california/channel.html

	Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary No-Take Zones
		The debate over the size and location of no-take marine reserves has received very little national press, despite the fact that the area is both a national marine sanctuary and one of the United Nation's international biosphere reserves.
		The marine areas around the northern Channel Islands remain the last remnants of a healthy marine system off southern California, and include 75% of the entire rocky reef habitat in the Bight.
		It requires the protection of quality nearshore marine habitat -- the last remnants of southern California's marine heritage exists around the northern Channel Islands.
	www.peggy-oki.com /environmt/cinms.html

	Sanctuary will get new research boat By BRIAN SEALS SENTINEL STAFF WRITER November 14, 2004
		The boat will be shared with the nearby Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones marine sanctuaries.
		Sanctuary will get new research boat By BRIAN SEALS SENTINEL STAFF WRITER November 14, 2004
		In March, the sanctuary is scheduled to have its own 65-foot catamaran known as the R/V Fulmar, complete with on-site laboratory.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2004/November/14/local/stories/06local.htm

	Outpost: Blue Frontier @ nationalgeographic.com
		Tell the class that the marine sanctuaries were created to preserve the country’s marine resources, much as national parks were created to preserve some of the nation’s land resources.
		Ask them if they think they’d find different fish species in different parts of the Channel Islands and if they think these differences could be related to water temperature.
		Inform the class that some Chumash Indians inhabited the Channel Islands long before any Europeans lived in this region.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /seas/html/classroom/classroom_channel.html

	Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary - Gr. 9-12 Classroom Activities
		Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary - 9-12 Classroom Activities
		They study maps showing water temperature variations in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and predict whether or not there will be different fish species in different parts of the sanctuary.
		Continuing to use online resources, they list the ten most common fish species for each island group or island, and analyze their results to figure out how significantly species vary as water temperature varies.
	www.teachearth.com /express/Channel_Islands_HS.html

	Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Seeks Volunteer Advisors
		Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Seeks Volunteer Advisors
		CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY SEEKS VOLUNTEER ADVISORS
		Currently, the National Marine Sanctuary Program is considering sanctuary designation for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve, an area that is home to more than 7,000 marine species, half of which are unique to the Hawaiian Island chain.
	www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov /releases2002/dec02/noaa02r451.html

	California NMS Biogeographic Assessment
		To analyze relevant and comprehensive spatial data to evaluate potential implications of boundary expansion alternatives currently under consideration by the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS).
		To address this issue, NOAA�s Biogeography Program (BP), in consultation with the National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP), will conduct a spatially-articulated characterization of the marine fauna in and around CINMS.
		The CINMS biogeographic assessment will complement and build upon a similar effort currently being conducted by the BP for three sanctuaries in northern/central California (Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries).
	biogeo.nos.noaa.gov /projects/assess/ca_nms/cinms

	Channel Islands MPAs
		As a result of the request, the Commission directed the Department of Fish and Game (Department) and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (Sanctuary) to jointly support a process to discuss MPAs in the Channel Islands area.
		Marine Protected Areas in NOAA's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
		In 1998 the Channel Islands Marine Resources Restoration Committee, a group of concerned citizens, requested the Fish and Game Commission (Commission) to establish a network of Marine Protected Areas around the northern Channel Islands.
	www.dfg.ca.gov /mrd/channel_islands

	Welcome to Truth Aquatics
		Here you will find everything you need to know about our services and about diving, hiking, and kayaking the beautiful Channel Islands National Park.
		Southern California's Premiere Scuba Diving fleet, where every boat is built from the water up specifically for the discriminating scuba diver!
	www.truthaquatics.com

	Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary - K-4 Classroom Activities
		Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary - K-4 Classroom Activities
		They discuss biological and cultural reasons for protecting the waters of the Channel Islands, and delineate an area in their own geographic locality that they believe should be protected, and explain why in writing.
		They examine stories and pictures about human habitation in the Channel Islands, and map some shipwrecks there.
	www.teachearth.com /express/Channel_Islands_Elem.html

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	Plants & Animals - FirstGov for Kids
		The waters of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the densely populated California coastline, and will serve as our "laboratory" for studying nature's dynamic systems during the 2002-2003 school year.
		- Here you'll find information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- their history and current management, their scientific and educational programs, and their continuing efforts to conserve our nation's ocean and coastal treasures.
		In short, you get to click around and learn a whole lot about marine biology.
	www.kids.gov /k_plants.htm

	NOAA Buoy Data via Cell Phone -- Lady Raquel Charters -- Motor Yacht Boat Charters in Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary - Lady Raquel Charters - Motor Yacht Charters and Eco-Tours in Santa Barbara
		The National Weather Service broadcasts data provided by automated weather buoys anchored in near coastal waters around the world.
		If you are a mariner you are aware of the importance of up-to-date weather information.
		However, in many cases it would be a lot more convenient if one didn't have to wait until the next scheduled broadcast to get the data.
	www.ladyraquel.com /weather/buoys

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