The goal of the Wind to Whales project is to predict present and future effects of human activities on marine ecosystems. The project brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from five partner institutions around Monterey Bay, with UCSC as the lead institution. The other partners are the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Laboratory in Santa Cruz. The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is also involved. Recent technological breakthroughs in numerous disciplines have made possible new syntheses that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. By creating a Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT), we will explicitly link new technologies across disciplines of marine science to address key questions for marine resource managers. This center forms an innovative new approach to understanding how key marine resources - fisheries, seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals - respond to short and long-term changes in physical oceanographic processes such as El Nino events, decadal oscillations, and long-term climate change. Our long-term goal is to develop multifrequency, high frequency (HF) radar techniques and instrumentation for real-time measurement of near surface ocean currents, vertical current shear, winds, and friction velocity. Our goal includes deployment, maintenance, and improvement of HF radar systems for providing maps of data products in real time for the advancement of air-sea interaction and coastal oceanography, as well as the integration of HF radar measurements into coastal ocean models. A related goal is to investigate and develop ship detection and tracking techniques for multifrequency HF radar as a contribution to the Homeland Security Program.