Bodega Content / Bodega Content for ٺƵ en Do Marine Protected Areas Work? /climate/news/do-marine-protected-areas-work <p>Marine protected areas, or MPAs, are an increasingly common way of protecting marine ecosystems by prohibiting fishing in specific locations. However, many people remain skeptical&nbsp;that MPAs actually benefit fish populations, and there has not yet been a way to demonstrate whether or not they are effective. Until now.</p> July 17, 2019 - 10:43am Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/do-marine-protected-areas-work Tiny Shells Indicate Big Changes to Global Carbon Cycle /news/tiny-shells-indicate-big-changes-global-carbon-cycle <p>Experiments with tiny, shelled organisms in the ocean suggest big changes to the global carbon cycle are underway, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.&nbsp;</p> <p>For <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01530-9">the study, published in the journal <em>Scientific Reports</em></a>, scientists raised foraminifera — single-celled organisms about the size of a grain of sand — at the <a href="http://bml.ucdavis.edu/">ٺƵ Bodega Marine Laboratory</a> under future, high CO2 conditions.</p> May 25, 2017 - 4:31pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/tiny-shells-indicate-big-changes-global-carbon-cycle Canary in the Kelp Forest /news/honeycomb-shaped-sea-creature-dissolves-under-current-warming-acidic-conditions <p>The one-two punch of warming waters and ocean acidification is predisposing some marine animals to dissolving quickly under conditions already occurring off the Northern California coast, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.</p> April 18, 2017 - 3:06pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/honeycomb-shaped-sea-creature-dissolves-under-current-warming-acidic-conditions Mass Oyster Die-Off in S.F. Bay Related to Atmospheric Rivers /news/mass-oyster-die-san-francisco-related-atmospheric-rivers <p>Atmospheric rivers contributed to a mass die-off of wild Olympia oysters in north San Francisco Bay in 2011, according to a study led by ٺƵ and the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.&nbsp;The study&nbsp;is the first to document biological impacts of atmospheric rivers, which are predicted to increase&nbsp;under future climate change.</p> December 13, 2016 - 1:00pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/mass-oyster-die-san-francisco-related-atmospheric-rivers Robot Larvae Deployed at Sea /news/robot-larvae-deployed-sea <p>Scientists from the University of California, Davis, are deploying “robot larvae” into the ocean at Bodega Bay, just north of San Francisco.</p> <p>These robots mimic clouds of microscopic marine larvae, such as baby crabs, mussels, clams and rockfish. The data the bots bring back provide some of the first direct confirmation of a decades-old and surprisingly contentious scientific mystery: Where do marine larvae go, how do they get there and back, and what allows them to do this?</p> August 31, 2016 - 4:30pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/robot-larvae-deployed-sea