by Bodega Bay | Sep 5, 2016 | Bodega Bay, Bodega Marine Laboratory
The five robots plopped into Bodega Bay were designed to mimic the larvae that float around in the ocean, but it was hard to imagine these canisters — which looked a bit like Minions from the computer-animated film — mingling with microscopic marine critters, let...
by Bodega Bay | Jun 5, 2015 | Bodega Marine Laboratory, Sea Stars, Urchins
In August 2011, scientists walked into their labs and were met with a disturbing sight: thousands of purple sea urchins and other marine invertebrates were dead in their tanks—which are fed directly by seawater. Outside, the tea-colored ocean washed up carcasses of...
by Bodega Bay | Sep 5, 2014 | Bodega Bay, Bodega Marine Laboratory
Stephen R. Palumbi received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in marine ecology. His research group studies the genetics, evolution, conservation, population biology and systematics of a diverse array of marine organisms. Dr, Palumbi will be speaking on the...
by Bodega Bay | Dec 8, 2013 | Bodega Marine Laboratory, Dungeness crab, Sonoma Coast
Guy Kovner of The Press Democrat is reporting that the scientists at the Bodega Marine Laboratory are concerned that a “dead zone” may be developing of the Sonoma Coast. Climate change is the likely cause of unprecedented mass of oxygen-poor water off the...
