POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY

Education and outreach group:this group is responsible for scientific and conservation outreach, public education programs, and school-based education programs including the straw (students and teachers restoring a watershed) restoration program. The group also helps the organization communicate its science and conservation recommendations to a variety of audiences, including policy-makers, land owners, resource managers, and members.

Pacific coast and central valley group:working locally, regionally, and internationally, this group provides conservation science and training to support the development of the next generation of conservation scientists, inform policy, and formulate strategies that ensure thriving ecosystems that maximize multiple benefits to wildlife and humans.california current group:this group works to conserve the integrity of the california current ecosystem. Its focus is on helping protect ocean food webs that can support both thriving and diverse marine life and the needs of human communities. Its understanding of ocean and marine terrestrial ecosystems is informed by long-term data monitoring activities both at sea and on the farallon islands. Additionally, the group trains emerging conservation scientists in its internship program.ecoinformatics group:using cutting edge models and analytical approaches, this group increases the understanding of the effects of climate change and management responses on ecosystems and communities. The focus is on science and outreach to influence shoreline and bay-land development, climate adaptation activities, ecosystem management, habitat restoration, and mitigation. This group develops tools, frameworks and techniques for managing the wealth of scientific data compiled by the organization and its partners. It further seeks to transform this data into conservation outcomes and ecosystems knowledge that improves conservation decisions around california and the world. This group also manages the organization's websites and network infrastructure.innovationthe innovation group works to connect science to conservation impact and action. The group initiates strategic partnerships and scienctific endeavors, collaborates to create program visioning, provide project management expertise, and develop and maintain frameworks and database systems for organizational and programmaic metrics and data tracking. The innovation group brings novel disciplinary expertise that can help expand conservation impact through leveraging the huim dimensions of conservation, including social science, policy engagement, and citizen science. The group participates in strategic conservation coalitions, including the california biodiversity network, the california global biodiversity working group, and together bay area.