WATSONVILLE – As scientist Kerstin Wasson trudges along the banks of Elkhorn Slough, her rubber boots crunch through a white, brittle crust of dead algae that encircles nearly the entire shoreline.

Elkhorn Slough is a jewel on California's coastline and one of the 25 most significant biodiversity hot spots in the world. Its acreage is second in size only to the wetlands in the San Francisco Bay ...

A new report from UC Davis identifies areas with high vulnerability to coastal flooding.

Elkhorn Slough, a coastal wetland visible from the Highway 1 bridge in Moss Landing is a breeding ground for many ocean species and a safe haven and food source for sea otters and other marine ...

And Elkhorn Slough’s existence is something special – it is one of the few remaining functioning wetlands in California. Multiple stakeholders have come together to preserve Elkhorn Slough so that it ...

Tour boats like the Elkhorn Slough Safari that run out of the Moss Landing Harbor are seeing a spike in the number of sea otter pups in the area.According to Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers, there ...

On October 23, 2018, a new generation of Olympia oysters will settle into their home on the tidal mudflats of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. These oyster babies were raised at ...

The boat containing a passel of biologists and other folks motored out of Moss Landing Harbor this week past sea otters, brown pelicans, snowy egrets and sea lions as it toured the largest tidal salt ...

Graduate student Brent Hughes examines algae (green sea lettuce) from Elkhorn Slough, an indicator of high nutrient levels. Photo by Monique Fountain. On this map of Elkhorn Slough estuary showing the ...

Elevated concentrations of heavy metals have been detected at the Elkhorn Slough Reserve by scientists from San Jose State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories following a recent fire at ...

NOAA Fisheries has issued a Renewal incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals ...