Who are We?

Our Guiding Principles

• Sustainability - we recognize that sustainability is a balance between the environment, economic development, social development, and community prosperity. We are committed to a sustainable future, and to working with our communities to achieve this future. We actively support the concept of a steady state economy where population is stabilized and resource consumption and waste production are maintained within the environment’s capacity to regenerate resources and assimilate waste.
• Conservation - it is our goal to reduce our carbon-footprint and our impact on the environment.
• Quality - we are dedicated to providing high quality scientific research which is innovative, effective, and relevant.
• Professional Responsibility - our professional ethics are founded upon integrity, competence, and a responsibility to provide sound management and conservation of biological resources.

" There are good things to see in tidepools and there are exciting and interesting thoughts to be generated from the seeing. Every new eye applied to the peep hole which looks out at the world may fish in some new beauty and some new pattern, and the world of the human mind must be enriched by such fishing."
     John Steinbeck, in the forward from Between Pacific Tides