The 2012–13 season was a year of breakthrough for Chow Ka Wa, as his impressive performance and cooperation with fellow team-mates Dieguito, Jonathan Carril and Ip Chung Long attracted people's eyes.
However, his 1938 excavations at the C. W. Harris Site (CA-SDI-149) in Rancho Santa Fe established that the site's San Dieguito component underlay its La Jolla component, at the base of the stratigraphic sequence (Warren 1966).
San Dieguito Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area near Del Mar in San Diego County on California’s south coast.