Contact Information
Address:
110 Shaffer Road
SWC3
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United StatesPhone:
831-420-3900
Published on Department of Commerce (https://2014-2017.commerce.gov)
SWFSC Santa Cruz Laboratory
Located at the western edge of Santa Cruz, California on the coastal bluff at Terrace Point, the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC)'s Santa Cruz site houses the Fisheries Ecology Division and the Environmental Research Division's Data Integration and Analysis Program.
The Fisheries Ecology Division studies demersal and anadromous fish of the California Current and adjacent waters. The division conducts stock assessments for the management of groundfish and salmon fisheries, and provides scientific information to support conservation of threatened and endangered anadromous species. Areas of active research include natural resource economics; molecular genetics; marine, estuarine and riverine habitat assessment; reproductive biology and early life history; fisheries oceanography; quantitative methods development; and the ecology of individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems.
The Environmental Research Division focuses on the study of environmental influences on marine resources. The division provides oceanographic information to fishery scientists and managers, describes links between environmental processes and population dynamics of important fish stocks, develops means to forecast fish population availability and resilience to fishing pressure, and assesses the effects of global climate change on oceanic processes important to fish population dynamics. Laboratory scientists currently are analyzing oceanographic and atmospheric data to develop indices to characterize how climate changes in the North Pacific may have contributed to a long-term decline in the Steller sea lion population.
Links:
[1] https://2014-2017.commerce.gov/locations/swfsc-santa-cruz-laboratory
[2] http://swfsc.noaa.gov/