In the webinar “Coastal Acidification Monitoring and State-Level Actions,” Melissa Rae McCutcheon compares the application of two types of monitoring — sensor deployments and discrete bottle sample collection — in understanding coastal carbonate chemistry dynamics using data from the Mission-Aransas Ship Channel as a case study. She also discusses the importance of monitoring data in management decisions and cover the coastal acidification policies and actions taken by different states to date. McCutcheon is a Ph.D. Candidate in Coastal and Marine System Science, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.