Tide pools and sea lions: still the Sonoran Desert?

Published on by pacificsummer

I am back in Tucson, after 3 weeks of the field course I have been posting about.

CEDO’s visitor center in Rocky Point houses researchers, outreach staff, visiting groups like ourselves crashing on a wood deck, and events like their environmental contest that drew hundreds of people just yesterday.

More photos and stories to come, but for now, we can say I’m already missing waking up to the sound of waves on the deck of the Intercultural Center for the Study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO). There, we helped revive a recently neglected long-term data set on the composition of tide pools, danced in the mud until shrimp started crawling up our legs, and snorkeled with thousands of playful sea lions.

Counting snails at first light in a hula-hoop sized area along four parallel lines leading into the surf.

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