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How is climate change affecting oceans? Check the tide pools

June 21, 2019

Marine Ecology

Marine biologist Eric Sanford hikes down to Horseshoe Cove to study tide pools at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Sanford's research is examining the impacts that climate change is having within intertidal zones.

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(Brown booby photo by Roger Harshaw; scarlet sea cucumber and striated sea butterfly by Eric Sanford; all others by Jackie Sones.

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March 12, 2019

Marine Ecology

Tropical Species Near San Francisco? New Range Limit Records Indicate Future Face of California Coast

El Niño’s Gone, But Some Unusual Southern Visitors Remain on the North Coast

March 17, 2017

Marine Ecology

Investigating El Niño weather pattern and the effects it has on redistribution of species, BML research coordinator Jackie Sones and ecology professor Eric Sanford have discovered red pelagic crabs on the Californian Northern Coastline. Because they are usually found off Baja California, Sones and Sanford suggest that the finding is indicative of how strong the most recent El Nino was.