California White Shark Project Needs YOU!
Hi there!
People like you are the reason the California White Shark Project has been able to keep monitoring white sharks along the central California coast.
Scot Anderson and I are dedicated to preserving and maintaining our unique monitoring of this population of white sharks. Our decades of direct observations of white sharks have created the longest dataset on white sharks in the world and have been the key to estimating population abundance and understanding general white shark behaviors. Our research plays a vital role informing management and conservation of white sharks and the waters they inhabit.
It's been a challenging few years for our research effort. The Covid pandemic caused our institutional funding to cease in early 2020, which made for a couple of difficult, severely underfunded seasons. We nonetheless managed to get out on the water and maintain our population data.
This year we turned our pandemic-driven bootstrap efforts into the California White Shark Project, an independent 501c3 nonprofit to help raise the funds to cover our research costs. For the last three seasons, we have been able to do a lot with a shoestring budget funded by generous donors and supported by amazing volunteers.
We look forward to sharing more shark stories and what we are learning about them---but we can’t do it without your support. Please check out our website and blog for our ongoing deeper discussions about this remarkable species and our work to better understand them.
Our 2022 shark season has been great to date with over 65 individual white sharks identified. Yet we are still operating in a significant deficit and need to elevate our fundraising to complete this year and to proceed forward.
Your financial support is critical for us to continue this valuable research and monitor this iconic marine predator. Contributions can be on this website by clicking ‘donate’. Your donation will go directly towards research costs for the California White Shark Project.
Paul Kanive, PhD, President
