PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Will Berelson, University of Southern California
CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Alex Sessions, California Institute of Technology; Hope Johnson, CSU Fullerton; Lisa Collins, Santa Monica College
Project Administrator: USC Sea Grant
PROJECT SUMMARY:
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Chris Lowe, California State University Long Beach
CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Varenka Lorenzi (California State University Long Beach), Ryan Freedman (NOAA Channel Islands NMS), Kady Lyons (Georgia Aquarium)
PROJECT ADMINISTRATORS: California Sea Grant
PROJECT SUMMARY:
In one sense the story of the California condor is a great triumph.
At one point, the number of free-flying condors in their namesake state had dropped to zero. But by 2010, after decades of restoration efforts, the population resurged to a milestone figure: one hundred birds soaring through California’s skies. Condors had begun to lay eggs in Mexico, too, for the first time since at least the 1930s. And when a pair of condors nested in Big Sur, they were the first to do so in northern California in a century.
This project will investigate methods for producing fisheries stock assessment models that better reflect the way fish growth rates vary across time and space, providing more accurate estimates of fish population health as the climate changes.