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Map showing control and kelp restoration areas.
Monterey National Marine Sanctuary, and CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Reef Check
In collaboration with CDFW, the MBNMS and OPC, Reef Check is charged with measuring any ecological changes in the background environment to compare to the restoration efforts throughout the project’s duration.
Latest Reef Check monitoring results: July, 2022
From Dan Abbott, Reef Check Kelp Forest Program Director
"Awesome news from Tankers Reef! All that hard work culling urchins has paid off. According to our most recent survey, the density of giant kelp went from just over 12 stipes per transect to almost 50 stipes per transect and urchins stayed way below the two per meter threshold. No changes were observed at the control site.
Congrats to Keith Rootsaert and all the G2KR volunteer divers who put in the hard work culling urchins! And to all the Reef Check divers who volunteered their time to collect this important data so that it can be shared with all of you and inform future restoration efforts!"
2021 Spring and Fall Tanker's Reef monitoring results
Reef Check monitoring results
Reef Check Seminar: Kelp Forest Restoration in Monterey Beginning at 38:43, Dan Abbott, the Director of Reef Check’s Kelp Forest Program, presents monitoring data from 2021, the first year of the Tanker's Reef Project.
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and CA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife monitoring results
Data not yet available.