Kids and Eelgrass. Ben Becker Point Reyes National Seashore

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3 Kids and Eelgrass Ben Becker Point Reyes National Seashore

4 Research and Monitoring Programs Natural Laboratory Parks for Science, Science for Parks Over 110 Research Projects Most researchers from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Bodega Marine Lab, SFSU, Sonoma State, UC-Santa Cruz, Stanford, USGS, USFWS Access to world class research for park management

5 Studies in the areas of: Air quality (ozone, mercury from Asia) Climate change (bird impacts, ocean acidification impacts on shellfish, habitat changes) History (coast Miwok archaeology) Threatened and Endangered Species (Spotted Owls, Coho, Lupine, beach layia, black abalone) Geology (San Andreas Fault Creep, Historic Tsunamis, Paleontology) Invasive Species (Spartina, exotic grasses, tunicates) Marine Ecology (Elephant Seal ecology, Marine Protected Area effectiveness, seafloor habitat mapping, white shark ecology) Vegetation (Fungi inventory (500 species!), Sudden Oak Death, Pitch Canker, mycorrhizae) Water Quality (Streams, watersheds) Wildlife (Bats, insects, birds, spiders, deer, elk, river otters)

6 Tomales Bay Marine Station Researcher and Science Intern Housing Boat and Data Access ~ 20 research groups & interns / year 1500 person nights / year Focus on high-priority park science Expanding to 15 beds though a park donation

7 Education & Internships for Students

8 Science at the Seashore

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10 Bioblitz 2014

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12 Point Reyes Field Station University of California Natural Reserve System UC Berkeley, Host Campus Rob

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14 Neubacher Fund for Marine Science : 7 PROJECTS FUNDED 5 PhD Students (UCSB, UC Berkeley, UC Davis (3)) 1 Master s Student (Sac State) 1 Post-Doctoral Trainee (UCSB) 1 Professor (UCLA) 2 undergraduates (UCLA) 2016 RAPID LARGE-SCALE EELGRASS MONITORING USING HIGH-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING Max C. N. Castorani (Post Doc), Tom W. Bell (Ph.D. Candidate) University of California, Santa Barbara LOCAL ADAPTATION AND THE FUTURE OF KELP IN POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE Jordan A. Hollarsmith, PhD graduate student Bodega Marine Lab, University of California-Davis

15 Neubacher Fund for Marine Science 2015 RESTORATION GENETICS OF THE ENDANGERED TIDEWATER GOBY David Jacobs, Professor, UCLA, Two Undergraduates 2014 EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS ON NATIVE OYSTERS IN TOMALES BAY Jason Sadowski, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Davis and Bodega Marine Laboratory SEASONAL TRENDS IN KELP-HERBIVORE INTERACTIONS AT POINT REYES Nicholas Burnett, UC Berkeley DOES TOMALES BAY PACIFIC HERRING EELGRASS FOR SPAWNING? Hali Rederer, MS Student, Sacramento State University 2013 SELF-RECRUITMENT AND POPULATION CONNECTIVITY ALONG THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST Erin Satterthwaite, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Davis and Bodega Marine Lab

16 Trophic Cascade

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19 HIGH environmental stress (warmer and lower salinity) excluded top predators more oyster drills low oyster survival. Trophic cascades can vary within an ecosystem

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21 plus C storage ph buffer

22 Over years, 1 ha of eelgrass kg cod + 7,535 wrasse (a fish) + 99 tons carbon sequestered kg nitrogen sequestered Flow of future benefits associated with commercial fishing (25% value) avoided climate change damages reduced eutrophication (46% value) = $20,700 (in 2014) = $ 1,300 annualized at 4%.

23 Nutrient pollution and reduced grazing each can stimulate algae on eelgrass top down bottom up

24 Grazer biodiversity Nutrient input Environmental Variables (temperature, etc) Duffy et al. 2015

25 DUFFY ET AL RESULTS Modest top down control of algae by grazers, whereas fertilization had no general effect. Evidence that biodiversity and top down control strongly influence functioning of threatened seagrass ecosystems, and suggest that biodiversity is comparably important to global change stressors.

26 Sea Otter Crabs Invertebrate Grazers Eelgrass

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32 UC Field Station 3 min Sac Landing 2 min Neubacher Fund 4 min Drakes Restoration 4 min MPAs 3 min Ashy 3 min Pinnipeds 2 min White Sharks 2 min Science at the Seashore Giacomini Update BioBlitz 2016 Tunicates and eelgrass? Hubble Beissinger Silver Kimley White Sharks ASSP Point Reynolds Reyes NS 2014 Bioblitz Brent Hughes coastal euthrophication UAS waterbiurds Tomales Bay Hechinger Stachowicz Project Zen chang kollars kardish bogan Beheshti cheng /picard carlson largier hogle Hill insects on salinity gradient Rails at Giacomini salt marsh Nitroged Eelgrass genetics Parasites and biodiversity invasives grazers on eelgrass eelgrass microbiome Effects of flow regime and habitat characteristics on aquatic biodiversity in the Pine Gulch Creek basin A comparative study of differences in isotopic signatures between salt marsh habitats of high nutrient-loaded Elkhorn Slough and lownutrient loaded Tomales Bay The Importance of Estuarine Acidification (EA) for Commercial Oyster Production and Native Oyster Restoration Fish and invertebrate ecology in intermittent and perennial streams Bodega Marine Laboratory Tomales Bay Water Quality Buoy San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project seagrassess and OA

33 BML/NOAA Buoy in Tomales Bay Salinity Conductivity Temperature Fluorescence Turbidity water velocity wind velocity ph CO2 (Currently not real time)

34 Economic value provided by eelgrass

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