A public agency applying next-generation science to aquatic ecosystems management - Since 1969 - Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Researchers are documenting how corrosive coastal ocean conditions and low dissolved oxygen levels threaten the health of marine food webs. Bioanalytical Cell Screening Assays Researchers are investigating how to adapt cell bioassays as a costeffective screening tool to improve monitoring of bioactive chemical contaminants in aquatic systems. Harmful Algal Blooms SCCWRP and its research partners are examining how to mitigate the proliferation of ecologically disruptive blooms in aquatic systems that threaten the health of wildlife and humans. Who We Are The Southern California Coastal Water Research Project SCCWRP is an aquatic sciences research institute that works to improve management of aquatic systems in Southern California and beyond.