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The gravitational pull of the moon combines with the gravitational pull of the (relatively) nearby sun when the moon’s position is such that the Earth, sun, and moon are aligned in a straight line. This creates the highest high tides and the lowest low tides of the year. The exact dates vary each year, because it depends on where the moon is in its orbit. Usually we get these super high/super low sun-plus-moon tides, also called \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/01/18/king-tides-could-preview-sea-level-rise/\">King Tides\u003c/a>, in December and January. (When the earth is at the point in its orbit that is farthest from the sun, around July 2, and the moon is aligned just right, we also get super high and super low tides.) Super high tides can give us a preview of sea level rise and help us identify areas that are prone to submergence. 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Keener says raw sewage used to flow right into the bay. \"I remember coming across the Bay Bridge when I was very young and it would just smell. It would stink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, the bay's water quality began to improve. But Stern says it took time for the food web to come back. \"It takes the biology a while to track the chemistry. So it's not surprising that it's taken years for this ecosystem to generate like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern says it's also possible that the porpoises had to rediscover the bay. \"Because over 60 years, we're talking about a number of generations of porpoises. 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In turn, sediment from nearly half of California's surface area is exhaled to the Pacific where it piles up in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2010/10/14/sand-waves-and-the-golden-gate/\">great furrowed berm\u003c/a> just off the Golden Gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tides arise from the interactions of the sun and moon with our planet; they are where the heavens most truly move the Earth. While mariners always had a good sense of the patterns of the tides, it took science to make them predictable. When Isaac Newton first grasped that the motions of heaven and Earth fit the same mathematical laws, in the mid-1600s, he saw that one very practical application would be in precisely describing—in modern terms, modeling—the tides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newton's tantalizing task is considered fairly well solved today, but it has taken centuries to arrive at this point. 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For the best view of the day's exact coastal conditions, I look to surfers and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.surf-forecast.com/\">surf-forecast.com\u003c/a> site. The tide is important for beach geologizers, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big influence on the tides in any given place is bathymetry—underwater topography. Mathematical modelers can treat the different parts of the Bay as giant bathtubs, each sloshing back and forth in its own rhythm and spilling into its neighbors, but that analytical approach has limits. For serious analysis of things like stormwater surges, major shoreline construction and channel dredging, the old-fashioned scale model—the Army Corps of Engineers' \u003ca href=\"http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/bmvc/index.html\">Bay Model in Sausalito\u003c/a>—still matters.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2011/12/01/bay-area-tides/tidesmodel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27998\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/tidesmodel.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tidesmodel\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27998\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/tidesmodel.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2011/12/tidesmodel-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a painstakingly calibrated replica, one-thousandth true size or about one and a half acres, whose pumps and sumps produce realistic versions of the Bay's complicated breathing. 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Green sea turtles are generally found south of San Diego, but have been sighted as far north as southern Alaska in the eastern Pacific. This turtle was outside of its normal range, and is a very rare sighting this far north and especially so close to the shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green turtle was listed under the Endangered Species Act on July 28, 1978. The breeding populations in Florida and the Pacific coast of Mexico are listed as endangered. In 2004, the \u003ca title=\"IUCN\" href=\"http://www.iucn.org/\" target=\"_blank\">International Union for Conservation of Nature\u003c/a> (IUCN) listed the green sea turtle as an endangered species, worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More common to our local waters is the giant eastern Pacific leatherback sea turtles. Leatherback sea turtles are the largest, deepest diving of all sea turtle species and are found swimming in all oceans across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean are in far greater danger of extinction than Atlantic Ocean populations due to greater commercial fishing, illegal poaching, ocean pollution, and nesting beach destruction in the Pacific. Leatherbacks in the Pacific can be divided into two primary populations: those that nest in the eastern Pacific and those that nest in the west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leatherbacks in the eastern Pacific population primarily nest in Central America and spend most of their lives offshore of nesting beaches or migrating to foraging areas. The largest foraging area is off the shore of Chile in the southeastern Pacific. The corridor above the Cocos Ridge of seamounts is a migration area of critical importance to many species between Cocos Island and Easter Island. However, some nesting occurs in Mexico and foraging leatherbacks from the eastern Pacific population may venture into California waters to feed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1990, the California State Legislature banned all longline fishing in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to prevent the deaths of leatherbacks sea turtles. Then in 2008, the California Legislature passed Assembly Joint Resolution No. 62 (Leno) for west coast sea turtle protection, supporting efforts to preserve and recover Pacific leatherback populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin non-profit organization, \u003ca title=\"STRP\" href=\"http://www.seaturtles.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sea Turtle Restoration Project\u003c/a>’s (STRP), is working to protect these and all species of endangered sea turtles. Their work has resulted in the National Marine Fisheries Service establishing critical habitats for the leatherback within much of the California, Oregon, and Washington EEZ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to enhance recovery prospects for the critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle, they initiated a “citizen scientist” research program as part of its volunteer \u003cem>Leatherback Watch Program\u003c/em>. The program tracks sightings of leatherbacks off the northern California coast, coordinating with recreational sailors, whale watchers, and scientists. This region is an essential feeding area for leatherbacks that swim across the entire Pacific Ocean from nesting beaches to reach the abundant jellyfish blooms that occur each summer in the California Current marine ecosystem. This year, the \u003cem>Leatherback Watch Program\u003c/em> recorded over twenty sightings in our local waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We can also follow a live green sea turtle tagged by the researchers from the Sea Turtle Restoration Project. The scientists capture sea turtles off Cocos Island, an island 400 miles off the coast of Costa Rica. Brought aboard the vessel, the scientists weigh, measure, take blood and tissue for DNA analysis and equip the turtles with special satellite tags. 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In the past week, Fillmore the Green sea turtle swam north then east, making it back into the protected \"No Take\" area 12 nautical miles around Cocos Island National Park. Let's hope Fillmore makes it east to the nesting beaches without encountering long lines or plastic bags. Data indicates that 80 percent of the debris on our beaches and shorelines comes from inland sources, traveling through our storm drains or creeks out to the beaches and oceans. 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