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MLML Research Faculty Receive Competitive OPC Grants

Kimberly Elson

Two MLML researchers have received grants from the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) through the Proposition 84 Competitive Grants Program.

The research projects were selected through a competitive process based on criteria developed by OPC in alignment with its mission and priorities. California Sea Grant and the University of Southern California Sea Grant facilitated the review panel process and will administer project grants on behalf of OPC.

Read about Research Faculty Dr. Holly Bowers's project:

Advancing Portable Detection Capabilities of HAB Species in California Waters

 

Read about Research Faculty Dr. Luke Gardner's project:

Sea Feeds: Identification and culture of Californian marine macroalgae capable of reducing greenhouse gas production from ruminant livestock

MLML Affiliates take part in the Salish Sea Survey Expedition

Kimberly Elson

MLML affiliates, Dr. Gary Greene, a former director, and Joseph Bizzarro, an alumnus and current Adjunct Faculty, along with a colleague from University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories, learn more about the sand lance, a fish who uses waves to move along the seafloor as part of the Salish Sea Expedition.

Read GeekWire's article on the Expedition here: Scientists in a sub turn up good news during expedition in the Salish Sea

MLML Graduate Student Amanda Camarato Returns from the Arctic!

Kimberly Elson

MLML student Amanda Camarato from the Physical Oceanography Lab  just spent over four weeks aboard the USCGC Healy, operating in the Beaufort Sea, deploying instruments to study Stratified Ocean Dynamics of the Arctic (SODA).  She was a part of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Team led by NPS meteorologist and MLML Adjunct Faculty member, Dr. Tim Stanton sent to deploy Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys (AOFBs) on ice floes.

MLML Researchers Plant Baby Oysters in Partnership with the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

Kimberly Elson

On October 23rd, 2018, baby Olympia oysters were planted in Elkhorn Slough as part of a native oyster restoration project.  A number of MLML Researchers and Graduate Students are featured in these stories and photos about the event:

Elkhorn Slough: A Big Day for Baby Oysters

SeaGrant: Struggling Olympia oysters get a boost from scientists in Monterey Bay

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Bringing Olympia oysters back to Elkhorn Slough

Photo by Brendan Tougher

MLML Chemical Oceanographers publish paper on mercury transport in fog

Kimberly Elson

Dr. Kenneth Coale, MPSL's Wesley Heim, Autumn Bonnema, Amy Byington, Adam Newman, and Chris Beebe, current Chemical Oceanography Lab students Alex Olson and Holly Chiswell, MLML alums Steve Martenuk and John Negrey, with collaborators from CSUMB and UCSC recently published their research on mercury in the California Current and it's transport via fog.  The paper is titled The distribution and speciation of mercury in the California Current: Implications for mercury transport via fog to land.

You can read the paper here.