Credits and References


view from a boat cockpit through windows out on morro bay, other boats, old power plant stacks, and morro rock are visible.

Credits

The material in this website was produced as a senior project by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo graduate Iliana Arroyos (supervised by Dr. Jennifer O’Leary) in 2018.

Photos, text, and research by: Iliana Arroyos

Reviewed by: Jennifer O'Leary, California Sea Grant/Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Published by: California Sea Grant

Eelgrass Extent Overtime Maps Provided by the Morro Bay National Estuary Program

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