Welcome to the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority (SCCWRP) Web Site.

SCCWRP is a joint powers agency focusing on marine environmental research. A joint powers agency is one that is formed when several government agencies have a common mission that can be better addressed by pooling resources and knowledge. In our case, the common mission is to gather the necessary scientific information so that our member agencies can effectively, and cost-efficiently, protect the Southern California marine environment.

An important part of our mission is to ensure that the data we collect and synthesize effectively reaches decision-makers, scientists and the public. The world-wide web provides us a new opportunity to achieve this goal. A number of our annual reports are now on-line and key-word searchable.

We invite you to read about our current projects and our scientists who are conducting them. Increasingly, we will be adding our data to the web site, so that other scientists may assist us in furthering our understanding of the California ocean environment.

We look forward to hearing from you about the effectiveness of our web site and ways we can improve its information content. Please feel free to contact our webmaster, Paul Smith, or myself with your comments.

Stephen B. Weisberg

Executive Director