The book Monitoring Programs for the Coastal Marine Environment: Experimental Designs, Samples, Analysis Methods and Associated Statistics is the first of its kind in Chile. Fifteen chapters analyze aspects, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, related to coastal marine monitoring programs that are part of Chilean environmental legislation. In each one, aspects of the legislative environmental history of the marine environment, regulations of the national authority, audits, program design, sampling methodologies, marine organisms, analysis of inorganic elements and organic substances, coastal oceanography and associated statistics are examined. All of this supported by an extensive review of national and international literature.Thirty Chilean researchers from eight universities, state and private organizations, and two Spanish researchers participate in this publication, all of them with extensive experience in academic and professional research in the design, implementation and evaluation of monitoring programs of the coastal marine environment.