Strong Craig S

Crescent Coastal Research is a sole proprietorship operated by Strong Craig S and registered to receive federal grants and contracts. It specializes in conducting at-sea bird population monitoring surveys, particularly for the threatened marbled murrelet seabird species, to support conservation and recovery efforts under the Endangered Species Act and Northwest Forest Plan.

Over the past several years, Crescent Coastal Research has received multiple cooperative agreement grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct standardized at-sea surveys monitoring marbled murrelet populations in Conservation Zones 3 and 4 along the coasts of Oregon and California. This work generates data on murrelet abundance, distribution, and productivity to estimate overall population trends. It is funded through the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) and supports the population monitoring objectives of the Northwest Forest Plan. Key deliverables include providing formatted murrelet data, reporting on other marine species observations, and submitting annual reports detailing survey results. Crescent Coastal Research has demonstrated expertise in implementing the prescribed monitoring protocols and coordinating this long-running survey effort across the conservation zones. The continuity of this work by the same entity has enabled consistent data collection to track murrelet population changes over time.