home    people     leadership team     advisory committee     funding sources   initiatives     sci/mngmnt linkages     water quality     habitat     bioindicators     human access     economic indicators     collaborative fisheries   taxonomic databases     marine life gallery     invertebrates   news & info     ecosystem overview     dashboard     in the news     downloads     links		Economic Indicators Initiative People: Linwood Pendleton — Director, Adjunct Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering, UCLA and Senior Fellow of the Ocean Foundation's Coastal Ocean Values Center Allison Chan, Environmental Science and Engineering, UCLA and the Coastal Ocean Values Center What is it? This initiative will establish a database of socio-economic indicators and identify a baseline of economic uses associated with the Morro Bay estuary and near shore ocean. Annual analyses will provide a record of changes and trends in the economic output of estuary and nearshore ocean based activities. This will facilitate the development of a model of the functional links between ecosystem indicators and economic productivity and value (based on a time-series analysis of ecosystem and economic indicators). Goals This initiative has been designed to determine how ecological health influences the economic well-being of people who live near and make a living from the Morro Bay estuary and near shore ecosystem. What's happening with the Morro Bay economy? 2008-Jan-07: Everyone knows that the Morro Bay economy has seen great change over the past few decades and everyone has a theory about why this has happened. We've developed an interactive webpage to look at change in parts of Morro Bay's coastal economy and possible reasons why this change has come about. We've pulled together data that will help you explore your own ideas about change in the Morro Bay economy. Please click on the button below to explore our data on the commercial rockfish fishery in Morro Bay and to test your ideas by taking our interactive survey. Give us your thoughts on the data — including data we might have missed. Help us tap into Morro Bay's local knowledge about the relationship between the sea, the bay, the coast, and the Morro Bay economy. Finally, let us know how you like this approach. We look forward to hearing from you, Linwood and Allison, SLOSEA Economic Indicators Initiative