Research Paper

The 2021/2022 practicum team spent the year researching coastal water qaulity in Los Angeles County at 8 different sites: Venice Beach, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Topanga, Malibu (three sites near Malibu pier), and Zuma Beach. We were able to use in situ sampling data and compare that to NASA satallite turbidity data from two satellites: Sentinel-2 (European Space Agency) and Landsat- 8 (NASA). We were able to understand the rates of antibiotic resitant batceria in our coastal waters and wrote up our findings in this research paper.