Fish in the Bay – May & June 2020, part 1: Crangon Shrimp Recruitment Explosion.
Wilson Xieu, junior specialist at the UC Davis Otolith Geochemistry & Fish Ecology Lab, joined the trawls in May. Photo...
Fish in the Bay – March 2020, part 2: The Shrimp Gradient (post SARS-CoV-2 lock-down edition).
Hello again folks. This is a belated part 2 to the March fish report. Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis forced a hiatus in...
Fish in the Bay – March 2020: Spring Spawns – Part 1
I am social-isolating and self-sheltering to maximum extent possible. Yet another naturally-mutated virus popped up and potentially threatens to mow...
Fish in the Bay – February 2020: Comb Jelly Explosion!
No rain = fewer fish! An unseasonable winter dry spell continues. Lower South Bay continues to get saltier. Based on...
The hunt for horny smelt in Silicon Valley
Over this past winter, the OGFL @ UC Davis has been conducting intensive surveys to collect spawning aggregations of San...
Fish in the Bay – January 2020: Part 2, More Winter Bugs & Fishes.
Full Moon and perihelion. As mentioned in Part 1, we were experiencing the second or third highest-high tide of the...
Fish in the Bay – January 2020: Part 1, Pregnant Sculpin, Saltwater Oddballs, and a Shad Experiment.
Trawl map. Full Moon and perihelion. The Moon set at sunrise as we launched on Saturday. The combination of full...
ESA Photo Gallery Article of Longfin Smelt in Lower SF Bay
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America has showcased our recent study that documents Longfin Smelt aggregating and spawning...
New Paper! Longfin Smelt are Aggregating and Spawning Near Silicon Valley
The Lab has observed consistent aggregations and recent spawning of/by Longfin Smelt in restored habitats in Lower South San Francisco...
The OGFL is Going to the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 in San Diego!
Dr. Lewis will present the Lab’s latest research on San Francisco’s Endangered Fishes to an audience of scientists from around...
New Paper Out! The complex life histories of endangered Delta Smelt.
Delta Smelt exhibit a diversity of strategies to survive in their dynamic and ever-changing environment. But will it be enough...
Fish in the Bay – December 2019: Part 2, Gobies and more wet-season erosion.
Some additional December observations and 2019 end of year clean up. Fish & Bug Matrix: Six good years of comparable...
We’re Hiring Undergraduate Interns!
The Otolith Geochemistry and Fish Ecology Lab (OGFL) @ UC Davis (ogfishlab.com) is hiring! We are offering multiple paid undergraduate...
Fish in the Bay – December 2019: Part 1, Rains bring Mysids and other critters.
December trawls: Jon Kuntz was on lines and net duty. Happy New Year! I am catching up on December reporting. ...
Fish in the Bay – December 2019, Special Report: Brown Shad after Bomb Cyclones & Atmospheric Rivers.
Hello again everyone. If you live in the Bay Area you are aware that we had a lot of rain...
Fish in the Bay – November 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Blue Fish!
Happy Thanksgiving! BE THANKFUL FOR THE RAIN. Cool-season rains were long overdue when we trawled on 9-10 November. The fish...
Fish in the Bay – October 2019, UC Davis Trawls (Part2) – Big Fish in a Little Pond; plus a Shrimp update.
This is part 2 from our latest trawling weekend, 5 & 6 October. See previous post for datasheets. Bay Study. ...
Fish in the Bay – October 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Winter Fish Arrivals & a goby surprise.
I joined the UC Davis trawls on both days of this October’s trawling weekend. … Fish are on the move! ...
Fish in the Bay – September 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Exopalaemon Blow-Out plus more Anchovy Color Investigation.
I did not join the September trawls, so the photo record is a little sparse. It was an interesting month...
Fish in the Bay – August 2019, UC Davis Trawls – Worm Fight and the Evolving Marsh.
We had another good trawling weekend in August despite warm water and plummeting Dissolved Oxygen (DO). Dr. Hobbs joined...
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