by Michaela Coats, Education Director at OC Coastkeeper “Close your eyes. Think back to a foundational moment that sparked your relationship with nature. Where are you? What do you see?…
Giving Tuesday Results Thanks to you, we raised $6,545 on Giving Tuesday! These funds will help us continue to track water issues affecting our community, such as PFAS contamination, stormwater…
With the holidays rapidly approaching, we want to offer some sustainable and fulfilling alternatives to the Black Friday circus! A few members of our team took some time to write…
San Diego Creek Shows High Levels of PFAS Over the past several months, we participated in a study with Waterkeeper Alliance to determine how polluted our waterways are with “forever…
Cover Photo: Western Snowy Plover chick The Santa Ana River Mouth is home to two species of bird that are protected by the Endangered Species Act: the California Least Tern…
A new, or rather newly investigated, pollutant has begun to populate our water systems more and more. Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are made up of carbon-fluorine bonds. These strong bonds allow…
In lieu of Kids Ocean Day in 2021, Coastkeeper and other participating organizations hosted a virtual art competition to maintain the event’s spirit while staying cautious of the pandemic. This…
Image: The Santa Ana River from the Huntington sideBasar, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Santa Ana River drains the largest watershed basin in Southern California, an area…
Photos & Blog by Amanda Armstrong, Communications Intern ’22 Growing up in Central California, I had always wondered what it was like to grow up right near the beach. Of…
As we teach our students about the human impacts on the environment, we make it an effort to focus less on the problem and more on the solutions. Through our…