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Holly visits Cawthron!
Blog post from the MLML Environmental Biotechnology Lab Dr. Holly Bowers had an awesome experience as a visiting researcher at the Cawthron Institute in New Zealand in 2020! Although she has previously collaborated with some of their team, those relationships were … Continue reading
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Tagged Environmental Biotechnology Lab, New Zealand
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A picture is worth a thousand words: using underwater photography to predict coral reef recovery
By Caroline Rodriguez, MLML Invertebrate Ecology Lab & CSUMB Logan Lab If you have seen photos of coral reefs, you probably agree that coral reefs are beautiful, colorful seascapes. Coral reefs are indeed picturesque, but they are also extremely important … Continue reading
Posted in Fieldwork, MLML Around the World, Research
Tagged coral, field research, Hawaii, invertebrate
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Kelp and Piscos in the Southern Sun
This week’s post was written by Ann Bishop of the Phycology Lab as a companion to the recent post about the Global Kelp Systems course. While both Chile and Monterey are dominated by kelp, they are not identical. Part of … Continue reading
Habitat Mapping: Investigating Potential Impacts of the Soberanes Wildfires to the Big Sur Coastline
By: Jessie Doyle, Gilbert Mak, and Katie Szelong To wrap up our coverage of the Habitat Mapping class projects, this week’s post walks us through an investigation of the ways in which wildfires can impact both the physical condition of … Continue reading
Habitat Mapping: The Fate of Wetlands at the Moss Landing Wildlife Area in Elkhorn Slough
We are back to covering class projects from Habitat Mapping this week. Julia Karo and Monica Appiano (“The Ladies”) will walk us through their study of marshland growth in Elkhorn Slough. Recently designated a Wetland of International Importance, the Slough … Continue reading
¡Saludos desde Chile y Global Kelp Systems!
We’re going to take a brief break from highlighting the Habitat Mapping class’s work to talk about another class that just returned from the field: the Global Kelp Systems course held in Las Cruces, Chile! Every other year, a small … Continue reading
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Habitat Mapping: Changes in Dune and Beach Morphology on the Central Monterey Bay Coast from 2015 to 2018
Blog Post Authors: Victoria Dickey of the Geological Oceanography lab. Amelia Labbe (not pictured). Dunes are essential to protecting our low-lying coastal communities and agriculture fields here in Monterey from storms, waves, and erosion. The beautiful … Continue reading
Survey Like a BOSS: A few highlights from a month at sea testing the Benthic Observation Survey System
Ryan Fields serves as lab technician to the Fisheries and Conservation Biology Lab (FCB lab), where he also studied for his Master’s degree. As a technician Ryan continues to participate in lab projects that include California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program … Continue reading
The SODA Project (no calories, all marine science)
MLML researchers recently participated in a collaborative research project orchestrated by the Office of Naval Research to study stratified ocean dynamics in the Arctic (SODA). Two seas were examined for this project, the Beaufort and Chukchi seas; with the MLML team … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic, Research, student life, surveys
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MLML students present research at Western Society of Naturalists 2018 meeting
By June Shrestha, Ichthyology Lab Congratulations to the eight students that presented results of independent research at the annual Western Society of Naturalists (WSN) meeting in Tacoma, WA this November 8-11, 2018! WSN is a scientific society with a strong … Continue reading
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