Tideline
Reef Cleanups · Kelp Surveys · Tide-Pool Walks
The ocean starts
right here.
We're a scrappy coastal collective of retirees, young parents, dive shop owners, and fourteen-year-olds who can name every sea star by species. Join us.
“I counted forty-three sea stars and it was the best Saturday of my life.”
Maya, age 14
Volunteer since 2024 · Malibu Cove
— Real results, real shoreline
What six years of
showing up looks like.
Microplastics collected during a single morning survey at Horseshoe Cove — the kind of haul that looks small until you know what it weighs.
Since 2019
0
lbs of debris removed from local reefs
Volunteer days
0
logged since our first cleanup
Why it matters
One acre of eelgrass sequesters carbon at twice the rate of a temperate forest — and it grows right here, in the shallows we clean.
Schools reached
0
kids who've crouched beside a tide pool
— Who shows up
Marine biologists.
Young parents. Dive shops.
You.
Every face here showed up on a weekend morning because they believe the next generation should know what a living reef feels like.
Dr. Patricia Osei, retired NOAA biologist. Still pulls on a wetsuit every third Saturday.
A first tide-pool walk. The pointing never stops after this.
A 6 a.m. cleanup at Anacapa Cove. Someone's hair is blowing sideways. No one minds.
Marcus Thao, owner of Blue Current Dive, quietly sponsors fuel for every survey boat run.
Third-graders from Westview Elementary meet their first hermit crab. Seven of them want to be marine biologists now.
Why this matters
“The sixty-mile stretch we monitor contains three of the last remaining healthy kelp forests on the Southern California coast.”
Kelp forests support over 800 species — and they're disappearing at 3% per year from our local shoreline. Every survey we run adds to a public dataset used by UC Santa Barbara researchers. Every cleanup removes the debris that smothers juvenile kelp. The science and the scrubbing are the same work.
— Your gift, exactly placed
See where every dollar lands.
No overhead mystery. Pick an amount and we'll tell you exactly what it does — because you deserve to know.
Secure payment · 100% goes to field operations · Tax-deductible
6 yrs
of consistent cleanup
$0
admin overhead on field ops
312
unique donors this year
100%
volunteer-led organization
— Give your time
Can't write a check?
Bring your boots.
We run cleanups every other Saturday along the sixty-mile stretch — tide permitting. Drop your email and zip code and we'll send you the next one closest to you.
Meet at the trailhead 30 minutes before low tide
Gear provided — just wear shoes you can get wet
Citizen-science data sheets if you want to help survey
Coffee and a debrief afterward (this part is mandatory)
Prefer to support from shore?
Fund a Cleanup DayJoin the next cleanup.
We'll match you to the nearest upcoming event on the sixty-mile stretch.
No spam. One email per event. Unsubscribe any Saturday.