intertidal zone

More of the intertidal zone — where crabs, sculpin and sea stars hang out — will be exposed Thursday and Friday than any other time this year.

Here’s what to know if you venture into the intertidal zone:

Those precise measurements show that at high tide, an intertidal zone can easily vary one or two centimeters in height within a single day.

Those precise measurements show that at high tide, an intertidal zone can easily vary one or two centimeters in height within a single day.

The fieldwork portion of the study began in 2016, with Clarke and Pearse collecting tentacle samples from both neon and non-neon colored anemones in the intertidal zone near the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California.