California Sea Grant welcomes Devin Fitzgerald as a new Staff Research Associate for the Extension Team. Devin is based out of San Jose State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and focuses on developing new techniques and markets for aquaculture.
This is the seventh in a yearlong series of stories showcasing the research that the Ocean Protection Council supported in partnership with California Sea Grant, with funding from Proposition 84.
It’s an idea that’s sparked enthusiastic headlines across the world: Feed cattle seaweed and you can help address the ongoing climate crisis.
California offers a plethora of seafood. But ironically the state’s abundant catch can make it particularly challenging to find reliable information about seafood sustainability, health and safety.
California Sea Grant welcomes Marissa Bills as a new Staff Research Associate for the Extension Team. Marissa will be based in Santa Barbara where she contributes to projects focused on sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.
Header photo: Anastasia Quintana and students from UCSB’s RISE fellowship.
Cintya Felix perked up when she saw the opportunity advertised in a campus email blast: Richelle Tanner, a professor at her college, Chapman University, was seeking bilingual students who wanted to work on climate advocacy. Tanner was looking for students to lead workshops that would teach Orange County residents how to identify and catalog nudibranchs, a type of colorful mollusk that tends to delight naturalists, professional and amateur both.
Climate change in California is altering traditional precipitation patterns, leading to sharper and shorter winter rain seasons. These changing patterns can impact salmon that rely on precipitation events to move upriver to their spawning sites. Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) living at the southern end of their range face the largest interannual variability in climatic conditions.