The Natural History of Bodega Head

      Eric photographed this beautiful Opalescent Nudibranch ( Hermissenda opalescens ) wandering through a world of pastel colors on 29 Jan...

    Some of you might remember that I sometimes see owls in pieces of sea urchin test.  Here's one perched on a branch of coralline alga...

    Eric snapped this great photo of a Veiled Chiton ( Placiphorella velata ) during field work this afternoon (8 March 2024).  Impressive h...

    This morning (24 April 2023) we were finishing some surveys at a site with lots of wave splash.  In this case that means the intertidal ...

    We've been busy doing surveys in the field during the low tides recently, but here's an isopod photo from back in February -- a ...

  We were exploring a rocky intertidal zone site near Carmel this morning when I looked down to see (or not see?) this sculpin with a...

  I encountered a small patch of Derbesia marina after field work in Oregon this morning — a fun seaweed sometimes called Green Sea G...

We were driving to work this morning when it started to hail.  I haven't seen hail very often in Bodega Bay, so I was pretty excited.  I...

  A few days ago, Eric spotted this wonderful sculpin in the rocky intertidal zone. I haven't learned how to identify the diffe...

A couple of seascapes from the Mendocino coast yesterday (10 June 2016):   A breezy morning, with Sea Palms ( Postelsia palmaeformis ...

Just back from a meeting in Monterey, CA, but we were able to take a quick field trip to the Big Sur coast this afternoon before heading no...

  Lined Chiton (Tonicella lineata) with coralline algae.  Photographed near Mendocino, CA, 28 October 2012 While the eye-catching z...