Gallery & Mixed Media

Anacapa Island Reef

Live Video Feed from Explore.org

This underwater live cam is positioned in the landing cove of Anacapa Island, one of five islands that make up the Channel Islands National Park. It offers rich views of an amber-colored kelp forest and the nearly one thousand marine species that live within it.

Ronald H. McPeak

Underwater and Coastal California Photographs, 1965-1999

This collection contains over 2000 35 mm color mounted slides, taken by Ron McPeak of the underwater biota of giant kelp forests in California and Baja Mexico from 1965 to 1999, and hosted by Digital Collection at UC Santa Barbara. This collection also includes images of kelp harvesting in California, salmon spawning in Alaskan streams, and aerial and landscape views of coastal California and its offshore islands.

Voices in the Sea

Marine Mammal Acoustics and Video Gallery

Listen to audio samples of whales and other marine mammals in the their natural environments, and pick out patterns in their calls visually based on the corresponding spectrogram. Learn more about these species and the field of marine acoustics as a whole through provided statistics and videos with professionals.