This is SO COOL!!!!!!! 🌊🌎

With a Landmark Report and Historic Investments, California Doubles Down on Ocean Health   - California Ocean Protection Council FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 24, 2026 CONTACT:Stacy Hayden, Communications ManagerCalifornia Ocean Protection Councilstacy.hayden@resources.ca.gov As federal rollbacks threaten ocean protections, Califo...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: At yesterday's meeting, OPC approved $6M for ocean science and restoration projects that advance California's 30x30 goal, and released the 2026 California Coast and Ocean Report.

Read the press release: opc.ca.gov/2026/03/california-doubles-down-on-ocean-health

Lucky! Looks like a gorgeous day too!

IslExp2026 Spend an epic week learning about the natural and cultural history of California's islands while living at the Santa Rosa Island Research Station in Channel Islands National Park and National Marine S...

Student summer field course on Santa Rosa Island! The 2026 Island Experience is an immersive 10-day field course open to all majors. Room, board, and travel costs are free for students. Don't miss out on this interdisciplinary opportunity—the deadline to apply is March 8. www.islexp.org

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

Mine do this too. It's so cute.

When did this name change? Ack!

Boo job beach ...

4th was money ...

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#Caturday things from Roo and Keeli.

I saw several itty bitty ones in the Silvetia when I was in SD!

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Ferns and redwoods

Fungus covered in water droplets

Ferns, forest, and a person

Ferns and trees with light shining through

8am lab before the rain

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

193K views · 18K reactions | A fishing village in far Northern California saw the largest tsunami waves in the state early Wednesday, though its warning was downgraded to an advisory as the morning wo... A fishing village in far Northern California saw the largest tsunami waves in the state early Wednesday, though its warning was downgraded to an advisory as the morning wore on. Crescent City, a...

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

And now over an hour later the FEMA alert comes through.

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

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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...

Eudesme virescens (a brown)

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. 🧵👇

I notice it the most with Excel due to the use of Google Sheets, but I think it pre-dates Covid. I am also noticing it now with Word where they don't even know how to get a Word doc from Google docs.

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.

There is a cloud version that is free (limited, but fine for class)

The downside is that I think there is some value in making them manually calculate the means and SD/SE in Excel. And sometimes I take too much time trying to figure out how to do things in R that I could quickly do in Excel. 2/2

I give annotated R code in my Ecology class -- so they learn how to import data, run the code and interpret data, and manipulate a few things. I started having them do figures in R this year too (in part to save time), but they have to add their own axis labels in R. 1/2