Our paper on using two centuries of herbarium specimens to characterize morphological variation in Egregia menziesii is now out, open-access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PhycologyFriday

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8am lab before the rain

Just registered for WSN. Looking forward to San Diego in November. =)

Some footage of the tsunami waves in Crescent City (posted to FB): www.facebook.com/reel/1833052...

Some N. CA locations. According to NWS Eureka, max wave heights were 1.2 ft in Humboldt Bay and 3.6 ft in Crescent City. Point Arena looks like it also saw waves around 3 ft.

Tide will be ~2.5 ft here, so water should be around high tide levels. The first waves are forecasted to arrive at the following locations and specified times. * California Fort Bragg 2350 PDT Jul 29 9 hrs 0.8- 1.4 ft Crescent City 2350 PDT Jul 29 36 hrs 2.9- 5.4 ft

Just got an alert (via Nextdoor of all places 😐) - Tsunami Watch/Warning for the NE Pacific due to an 8.7 earthquake off the coast of Russia. www.tsunami.gov

Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...

Marine chemical ecology and kelp! Very cool! Small so called turf algae use chemical "defense" to maintain dominance and prevent the larger kelp to establish. Goes to my reading pile and teaching material.

With sadness and respect, we honor the legacy of Dr. Jim Estes, who passed away this week. A pioneer of marine ecology, Jim’s groundbreaking work transformed our understanding of ecosystems and the essential role of keystone predators like sea otters. He is an icon in sea otter research. 🧵👇

My phone range at 5:20 this morning - it said possible spam and went to voicemail. It was a textbook rep. 🙄 Instead of an apology for a pre-sunrise call, there was some spiel about not having time to fit calls to CA in later in the day. Even 8:20 am would be too early for that.

It's also notable that in a year when NSF made only 1,000 GRF awards nationwide, none of them appear to have gone to current students at any campus of the CSU, the nation's largest four-year university system; just nine current CSU students got Honorable Mentions www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Congratulations to @randallhughes.bsky.social! A well-deserved honor for a terrific scientist and wonderful person who has inspired me and so many. Excited to celebrate and recognize all of the 2024 cohort!

Foggy day at the dunes.

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Professor and Director to join us in advancing the mission of CMSI. View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044

While we’re talking about @columbiaup.bsky.social capitulation to Trump don’t overlook the 6 Woods Hole institutions (- NOAA & USGS )capitulation canceling their diversity program to save their research funds. @whoi.edu @mblscience.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @seaducationassociation

I tried to put together an honest assessment of why we even care about weather balloons in a satellite world and why these cuts probably won't be noticed by the public 90% of the time. But the 10% of the time? That's a very, very, very big and concerning 10%.

The current administration is straight up censoring the scientific record by requiring authors to alter an already-accepted research paper because it uses banned words such as "gender" and "equitable" and presents data broken down by sexual orientation.

Hello, friends of the Estuary & Ocean Science Center. Thank you for the many expressions of support and concern about our imminent closure. I just want to say: we aren't dead yet. See here ways that you can help. I figure we have a couple more weeks to turn this around. eoscenter.sfsu.edu/closure

These programs helped support local farmers and provided locally sourced food to schools, seniors, tribes, and the food bank. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/mar/17/...

Two of the three CA offices are in Humboldt. Local article: kymkemp.com/2025/03/14/h...

Today I got a rejection letter for a job I applied for in July of 2020. Umm, thanks? 😆

PAID INTERNSHIP: The Los Angeles County Sanitation District's Marine Biology Laboratory is seeking a marine biology intern this summer. Salary $25.50 hourly. Application deadline is 11:59pm PST on March 25, 2025. See the link below for more details! www.governmentjobs.com/careers/lacs...

I found a cuddle puddle of snakes in my yard (and there were at least 2 more on the ground)

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Reminder: If you're newer-ish to BlueSky and want to find the accounts that a lot of the people you follow, follow, you can go here: bsky-follow-finder.theo.io. Enter your handle and have it analyze. I particularly like the "sort by proportion," which will get a lot of ppl related to your interests.

Marine Science Mentor Training! Apply to attend in-person marine science mentor training for CSU and UC mentors, all expenses covered, in San Diego, CA on May 29 & 30 2025. Go to bit.ly/Mentor_Training_1 to apply by 3/12/25! #marinebiology #marinescience #researchmentor #mentortraining #csu #uc

Got a little cheer for emphasizing the *Gulf of Mexico* when talking about mangrove expansion in class today. 🌊

My mollusc pop lab is a little harder in the winter b/c snails & slugs do a good job hiding when it's cold! But we still found some snails (only 2 slugs) plus many empty shells. And of course everyone loves finding the non-mollusc salamanders. Not sure what the other labs found in a different spot.

This is very sad news. The marine lab (Romberg Tiburon Center) I conducted master of science research at San Francisco State University is closing due to budget cuts. #SFSU #HigherEducation #RTC

Field work is important for ground truthing our ecological models and projections, particularly given the rapid change of all ecosystems with climate change

Hey, if you work for the University of California, and you are worried about public access to your research data that are currently hosted on federal sites - follow directions here to get them up on Dryad. 📈 osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/... @datadryad.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social

Sunday by the sea (with my new group of directed study students), Tuesday in the trees (with my Ecology lab).

December really is earthquake "season"...(so far everything seems fine here...at least at my house!)

Join Wilson Freshwater and me for a 5-week intensive graduate/advanced undergraduate course to study #seaweeds. More info below. Applications open soon- fhl.uw.edu/courses/appl...

Back from WSN. My directed study students did a great job presenting posters at their first conference. Colette and Alison presented the work all three of them have been working on with me and Mina presented her summer REU research.

Rocky shore ecologists starter pack. Loads of room for more. Please nominate yourself and others. Rocky shores are classic model systems and highly underrated ecosystem service providers. go.bsky.app/RAsgGPW

Who is in Portland for WSN?

Quote with your emotional support isopod.

🚨🚨Searching for a postdoc to join us next year ! And a graduate student in the fall! So many exclamation points because it will be so fun. I dont come here often, help me spread the word ! cuellar-gempeler-lab.weebly.com/postdoc-oppo...

8am labs aren't so bad when they are in the forest.

If any San Diego friends are interested in part-time consulting work on Caulerpa, AECOM is hiring: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AECOM2/74400...

Did a little intertidaling at 2 of my old field sites in Point Arena this weekend.

Interested in the intersection of #hyperspectral #remoteSensing and #kelp? Come join my lab! We have a ton of data collected and a one-year postdoc to turn out a ton of papers and take a mad #DataScience adventure! For more, see this link employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

This week in Ecology we surveyed willow trees from a common garden experiment set up in 2009 (see Iler et al. 2022). A neat site to explore!

This should be required reading for all new grad students and all faculty on dissertation committees. Natural history is important and you can’t stats your way out of not knowing you species or system, no matter how bayesian or causal your stats are. www.americanscientist.org/article/why-...

Playing with seaweed and cyanotypes with @raemariew.bsky.social