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Sara Hamilton, PhD

@sarahamilton.bsky.social
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Scientist at the Oregon Kelp Alliance helping to restore and protect marine ecosystems in the PNW

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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Finally. A radio interview where I didn't cringe at the sound of my voice or anything I said. Thanks for the chance to talk urchin ranching @klccoregon.bsky.social www.klcc.org/economy-busi...
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OoNee Sea Urchin Ranch aims to restore kelp forests, turn profit
On the Oregon coast, Nate Parker-Jones is a commercial fisher, but he doesn’t use a crab pot, or even a hook and line.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
After years of work, a team of researchers with support from The Nature Conservancy have identified the causative agent of Sea Star Wasting Disease! Big implications for my work & an inspiring example of the amazing things we can do w/ science...plus I'm quoted in it ;) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Giant sea stars are melting away — and now scientists know why
Canadian scientists say they’ve finally identified what is likely causing giant colourful sea stars in the Pacific Northwest to literally waste away: It's bacterium from the same family that causes ch...
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Nessa O'Connor @nessocon.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
we did not need another reason to ❤️ #kelp but here's one anyway...
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Can we crowdsource backing up this data? I'd be happy to back up a chunk of it and put it up on some public github or other kind of repository
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
FYI Folks, for a while NOAA's Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool was down. It's back up now! Everybody go check it out and then DOWNLOAD the data so that if/when NOAA resources continue to be gutted, we can still use that data. edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...
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Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
This screening tool identifies disadvantaged communities that are underserved &overburdened by pollution. It provides socioeconomic, environmental, health and climate info to inform decisions.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Yup, two of my co-authored articles are in here as well :/
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Shellfish Program Leader position open at OR Dept of Fish and Wildlife. Well paid and you get to live in beautiful Newport OR. Plus you get to interface with my group, ORKA, to make management decisions about urchin removal, Pycnopodia outplanting, etc oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SOR_Ex...
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Natural Resource Specialist 4 (Shellfish Program Leader)
Initial Posting Date: 03/13/2025 Application Deadline: 03/27/2025 Agency: Department of Fish and Wildlife Salary Range: $6,667 - $9,830 Position Type: Employee Position Title: Natural Resource Special...
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BWEEMS @official-bweems.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Did you hear? We have just launched our eco/evo mini grant! Where are our ecologist/evolutionists?!
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Presenting to local high schoolers for career day. What topics do you think I should hit? So far I'm going over what my job is, what a 'day in the life' looks like, how I got to this job, and ways to have a career in marine science that don't require a PhD. Anything to add or subtract??
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/02/2025
The CFPB has returned over $21 billion directly to Americans scammed by Wall Street. If you have been personally helped by the CFPB - if you've filed a complaint, got money returned to you, or benefitted from their work, I need to hear from you. www.warren.senate.gov/share-your-c...
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Share Your CFPB Story | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Got to attend an awesome ocean trivia night at Pelican Brewery hosted by Winter Waters PNW. Proceeds from the night went to the Oregon Kelp Alliance. So grateful for the creative, passionate folks who made this happen :)
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Interested in getting paid a good living wage to live on the beautiful Oregon coast and help restore and protect kelp forests? If so, check out the Oregon Kelp Alliance's new job posting! www.oregonkelp.com/opportunitie...
An isopod grazes the top of a bull kelp stipe.
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Greg Owens @gregowens.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Excited to announce our work on kelp genomics is now out at Current Biology. Lead by Postdoc extraordinaire Jordan Bemmels, we sequence WGS for 600+ bull and giant kelp across BC and Washington. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSP93QW8S...
Visual abstract for Kelp paper
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hey folks! The Oregon Kelp Alliance recently released our 2024 Oregon Kelp Forest Status Report. It finds worrying losses over the last 15 years in OR's kelp forests but also exciting signs of resilience. Read it for yourself here and feel free to ask me any Qs! www.oregonkelp.com/wp-content/u...
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Had a lovely time at the 2024 Western Society of Naturalists meeting in Portland this weekend! So much great content on kelp forest restoration, including some talks that got me super excited for ORKA's 2025 work.... feeling hopeful :)
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Bogs are beautiful. Bogs cool the climate. Bogs lead to biological innovation (meat eating plants anyone?). Bogs clean our water. Bogs protect landscapes from drought. We should all love and respect boglands.
Photograph of an Alaskan bog with red Sphagnum and blue pools of water in the foreground and green conifer trees in the background.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,139,337!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/07/2024
Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) thankfully continues to warn people that automakers are hoovering up vast troves of sensitive driver behavior and location data, then selling access to any nitwit with two nickels to rub together...without making any of it clear to consumers:
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Wyden Investigation Reveals New Details About Automakers’ Sharing of Driver Information with Data Brokers; Wyden and Markey Urge FTC to Crack Down on Disclosures of Americans’ Data Without Drivers’ Co...
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
Thanks to The Oregonian for this excellent profile of Oregon's kelp forests and the Oregon Kelp Alliance! www.oregonlive.com/environment/...
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Oregon’s underwater forests are vanishing. Can they be saved?
As marine heat waves wreak havoc on Oregon’s ocean ecosystems, the collapse of kelp forests could prove catastrophic to marine life, fisheries and tribes.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
ORKA is hiring! Come work for kelp forest restoration and protection on the magnificent Oregon coast. www.oregonkelp.com/opportunitie...
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Administrative/Program Assistant - Oregon Kelp Alliance
About the Organization The Oregon Kelp Alliance is a collaborative initiative dedicated to the conservation and restoration of Oregon’s vital kelp forest ecosystems. We work with scientists, researche...
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NPR @npr.org · 12/02/2024
Live from NPR News, we’re now on Bluesky 👋🎙️
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
The discovery of 32-million-year-old #kelp holdfasts from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, means that this group of marine foundation species is twice as ancient as previously thought & highlights the vastly different communities that kelps have supported over time. phys.org/news/2024-01...
This timeline depicts the evolution of kelp forests and associated organisms along the Pacific Coast over the past 32 million years, along with water temperature variations. Black bars indicate members of modern, complex kelp ecosystems - sea otters, abalone, sea urchins, and, until recently, sea cows. The green bars indicate now-extinct members of early kelp beds, including demostylians and penguin-like plotopterids. Credit: Steffen Kiel and Cindy Looy
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
It would sure be a shame if the bots/crowds got to this form that's designed to snitch on CSU faculty participating in the strike. Definitely DON'T fill it out with bogus info if you support the hardworking faculty who just want fair wages. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/c85dc...
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
New paper alert 📣! Check out our data synthesis for ocean acidification, hypoxia and temperature for the US West coast. A massive team effort led by E. Kennedy. essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
The idea of manipulating the ocean’s nutrients to store carbon was first proposed in the late 1980s. Getting real-world data on how well this process might work is challenging and unforeseen complications may lead to even less carbon storage. By Jack McGovan. hakaimagazine.com/news/iron-fe...
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Iron Fertilization Isn’t Going to Save Us | Hakai Magazine
The controversial geoengineering technique can defer, at best, a few years’ worth of emissions. And that’s ignoring the potential side effects.
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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Interested in #GIS in #rstats? I've recently heavily modified the @thecarpentries GIS in R curriculum to focus on #seagrass beds in Casco Bay for COBALT cobalt-casco.github.io/r-raster-vec... - this is all sf and terra, using tidyterra (w/ ggplot2) and leaflet for plotting. 🌍 #geo
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Natalie Ban @marinecons.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Just signed up for Bluesky, with thanks to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for the invite! Would love recommendations of who to follow... esp. related to marine conservation and marine science. Thanks!
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I knew it was coming and I'm still a little surprised, but today's move by Norway isn't the end for ocean ecosystems, it's a first tenuous step towards deep-sea mining. Norway moves one step closer to deep-sea mining: www.southernfriedscience.com/norway-moves...
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Norway moves one step closer to deep-sea mining
This morning, the Norwegian parliament approved a bill that moves the country one step closer to commercial deep-sea mining in Norway’s waters. This bill opens up nearly 300,000 square kilome…
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
CORVALLIS AREA FOLKS! An important PSA: There is a new sustainable seafood shop in Corvallis! Check it out to support local and sustainably caught Oregon seafood! www.oregonschoice.com
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Albacore Tuna | Pacific Salmon | Oregon’s Choice
Canned Albacore tuna, Chinook salmon, and other seafood products by Oregon's Choice Gourmet.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
🦑 🧪 Question for marine scientists! Anyone work with underwater PAR sensors before? If so, what sensors have you used and do you remember a cost ballpark? Will post cute dog pictures in return for feedback
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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
2023 was a bad year for environmental activists across Southeast Asia - and for the forests they strive to protect - as both repression and deforestation soared in tandem throughout the region. My latest for @mongabay.bsky.social with my colleague Carolyn Cowan.
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Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is home to the third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest in the world, making it a pivotal region for global efforts to address the biodiversity crisis and climate change. But intens...
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Matthew Reagan @matthewreagan.bsky.social · 27/12/2023
Of the 21 Cal State campuses with collections subject to repatriation laws only 4 have returned more than 1% of Native remains and artifacts. Over half of campuses have yet to complete an inventory of their collections due in 1995. CalMatters • California explained calmatters.org/education/hi...
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California is pressing universities to repatriate thousands of Native American remains and artifacts...
Only UCLA and Cal State Long Beach have repatriated a majority of their Native American remains and artifacts to local tribes.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
The Kelp Forest Alliance officially shared the Kelp Forest Challenge Roadmap, a global initiative to restore 4 million hectares of kelp forest. Exciting stuff and my group, the Oregon Kelp Alliance, is proud to be a partner working towards this goal. Check it out here! kelpforestalliance.com/roadmap
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Roadmap - Kelp Forest Alliance
A roadmap for protecting and restoring 4 million hectares of kelp forests by 2040
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I’m at AGU this week, and today I’ll be giving the Rachel Carson lecture 🤩. I’ll talk about the book - At Every Depth - and have postcards and stickers to hand out! Hope to see you AGU-ers there!
Stickers that read At Every Depth - Hill & Simons. Text surrounds a line drawing of an octopus. Illustration by Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth.
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American Fisheries Society @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
How does offshore wind development affect fish and fisheries? A new themed issue of Marine and Coastal Fisheries (open access) explores this from ecological, socio-economic, and management perspectives. Read the latest research here: ow.ly/18t750QhhxA #fisheries 🧪🐟🐠🦑
Graphic with the AFS and Wiley logos, a photo of an offshore wind turbine, and text reading, "Marine and Coastal Fisheries - Themed Issue: Offshore Wind Interactions with Fish and Fisheries. Read now!"
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
Thank you @oregonzoo.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about what we are doing at the Oregon Kelp Alliance. Such committed, passionate, thoughtful folks there. They do some key conservation work (CONDORS!) and I'm excited to think about how ORKA could partner with the Zoo in the future! 🦑🧪
A woman in a blue shirt and black jeans speaks in front of about 30 people sitting around round tablesMe and the Oregon Zoo Marine Team pose for a photo on top of the otter exhibits in the rain.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Omg so excited that @jahwaiian.bsky.social is here now! Steven was always one of my favorite voices on Twitter, so I'm hopeful to see more and more of the people who made SciTwitter special joining Blue Sky! Welcome Steven! 🧪🦑
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
@cerfscience.bsky.social So pleased to be at CERF for the first time! Loved the TEK plenary, the Inclusive Comm. session I went to! But I’ll be honest, conferences are so hard for me since 2020 (when I went remote). The social interaction is overwhelming & I feel embarrassed at being overwhelmed :/
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Check out Tessa's book yall!
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
I couldn't quite wait for #PhycologyFriday to share this AWESOME new web story about the best kelp, bull kelp! Artist and storyteller Josie Iselin put this together and I can't recommend it enough. I particularly love the "Kelp as Kin" theme. Check it out!! 🦑 bullkelp.info
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Home | The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I use phylopic all the time!
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
For Halloween, I present Zombie Urchins! When urchins overgraze kelp & form urchin barrens, they destroy their food supply. So how do they survive? They ramp down their metabolism to near-zero, living in a hibernation-like state for months to *years* without eating, reproducing or even moving much🦑
Hundreds of purple urchins packed side by side in an urchin barren on the seafloor near Cape Arago, Oregon
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Sof Fox @soffox.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Happy sea slug day! Here are some of the little guys from my research to celebrate :)
Rostanga pulchra sea slug in a glass bowl, magnified under a microscopeRostanga pulchra sea slug in a glass bowl
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Wow, so much to ponder.... would love to hear other's thoughts on this! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Holy smokes, ocean friends. Be on the lookout. 🧪🦑🌊
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
So enjoyed our Evening with Urchins last Saturday in Bandon! Got to tour a dulse and urchin aquaculture farm, learn more about historic and modern ways the Coquille Indian Tribe relate to the ocean, sample fancy uni recipes, and chat with so many people excited about sustainable ocean food! Dreamy 🦑
Several people gather around a large tank filled with urchins listening to a tour about urchin aquaculture in Bandon, Oregon. In the background are several more large blue tanks and the Coquille River.
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
If you're on the OR South Coast come join us in Bandon this Sat.evening for An Evening With Urchins to learn about sea urchin aquaculture and kelp forest ecology! Includes farm tours, uni tastings, and time to ask all your urchin related questions! 🧪🦑 www.oregoncoastmagazine.com/2023/10/16/h...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/10/2023
The 5th annual Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication has been awarded to Mongabay for our commitment to reporting on issues related to nature & biodiversity particularly in countries in the Global South 🌎 We share this among 80 staff in 6 bureaus & w/ the 800+ freelancers we hire daily:
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Mongabay wins prestigious 2023 Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication
Mongabay has won the prestigious Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication for its “outstanding track record” in communicating issues related to nature and biodiversity, especially in countr...
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Dr. Rachael Wade @raemariew.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Applications for the Phycological Society of America Grants-in-Aid of Research program are now being accepted until Nov. 1. Grad students & postdocs: submit your app here form.jotform.com/rmw104/2023-ps…. Email Rachael Wade rmw104@humboldt.edu w/ qs/issues. More info @ psaalgae.org
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Phycological Society of America
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Sara Hamilton, PhD @sarahamilton.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Cape Arago is the only place in Oregon known to have giant kelp alongside our standard bull kelp. Can you spot the giant kelp, bull kelp, sea grass, and red algae in this drone shot? #PhycologyFriday 🦑🧪🌊
Drone image of a diverse kelp forest featuring several different species of submerged aquatic vegetation from Cape Arago, Oregon
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