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Fun With Your Octopus
Cami the octopus is looking for a treat hidden inside her Mr. Potato Head. He is lying face down so she can find the compartment in the...
Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 19, 20201 min read
The Grunions are coming!
The time is here once again to observe the fascinating egg laying runs of grunions onto our Southern California beaches. They spawn...
Debra Quick-Jones
Mar 4, 20202 min read
Urchin Farming Here We Come?!
As discussed in my 11/20/19 blog, northern california kelp forests are in serious decline due to an unchecked overproliferation of purple...
Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 26, 20201 min read
Happy Birthday!
(taken from Birch Aquarium digital newsletter) Baby Weedy Seadragons Hatched For the first time ever, Birch Aquarium has bred and...
Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 26, 20201 min read
Who Knew?
As I was cleaning my tank, especially of the buildup of cyanobacteria AKA blue-green algae, I reflected on how weird and wonderful (and...
Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 25, 20202 min read
Citizen Scientists, Unite!
Itching to help out on a real science project? Two sites, citizenscience.gov and zooniverse contain a wealth of projects that you can...
Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 16, 20201 min read
Abalones have faces too!
It was Cute Abalone Day when I travelled to Bodega Bay in January to finally visit the facility that is rearing white abalone. Lead...
Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 4, 20201 min read
A Milestone - Stocking White Abalone off of Point Loma
A restoration milestone was reached last November when 3200 white abalone, (more than exist in the wild), reared at the UC Davis Bodega...
Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Hope for Endangered species
(copied from California Department of Fish and Wildlife site) White Abalone Recovery Project White abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) could...
Debra Quick-Jones
Feb 3, 20202 min read
And One Becomes Two
I have witnessed the first propagation event in my aquarium! One of my anemones just split itself in half, thus for sure identifying...
Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 27, 20201 min read
Citizen Scientist King Tides Project
How to get involved (email from Linda Chilton): Good afternoon, This week there will be extreme tides the remainder of this week from...
Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 22, 20201 min read
Antarctica
I just returned from a most remarkable ocean voyage over the holidays – 15 days to Antarctica on an Expedition cruise departing from the...
Debra Quick-Jones
Jan 22, 20203 min read
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