Lisa Gilbane, right, measures area of rock covered with tiny limpets. On a recent Thursday, the team found lots of animal life in the tide pools, but no sea stars. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
The team found a few brittle stars in the pools. The brittle star is not affected by the wasting disease that has decimated sea star populations up and down the Pacific coast. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Lee photographs an area, marked by a plastic frame, to count tiny limpet shells as he and others in UCLA professor Rich Ambrose’s group survey Cabrillo Beach’s intertidal pools on the Palos Verdes Peninsula (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
