A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE Should You Let a Shrimp Clean Your Teeth? (National Geographic) Cleaner shrimp make everyone smile, but videos show they don’t mind making those smiles even brighter.  …

By Mary Luna, Coastal and Marine Scientist, Heal the Bay During my student days I used to drive from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica for a relaxing run on the sand. I’ve always found the shoreline a peaceful place. …

By California Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon (D-Whittier), author of Assembly Bill 1884, which calls upon dine-in, full service restaurants to have a straws-upon-request policy. The California Coastal Commission has recorded roughly 835,425 plastic straws and stirrers collected between 1988 …

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE A robot submarine found the ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks.’ It’s worth billions. (The Washington Post) The San José, the largest galleon and the flagship of one …

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community. MARINE SCIENCE The quest to map the mysteries of the ocean floor (BBC) The sea’s terrain plays a critical role in our ecosystem. Underwater crests and valleys determine …