The Natural History of Bodega Head

    A ribbon of rose-colored embryos!   We were working on a few tasks in the rocky intertidal zone last night (28 January 2025) when Eric c...

  Last week, Eric’s summer class collected plankton tows in Bodega Bay and examined them under the microscope.   One of the students (Pach...

I had a bit of an eyebrow-raising experience today.  I was trying to photograph a common snail, the Carinate Dove Snail ( Alia carinata ).  ...

    We came across several squid egg capsules washed up on the beach yesterday (3 October 2020). These elongate gelatinous capsules contain...

Check it out!  When sorting through some low intertidal samples looking for ribbon worms, Maddy spotted this tiny polychaete worm.  I...

  An egg case with developing embryos of a Channeled Basket Snail ( Nassarius fossatus ).  The capsules are often attached to blades of...

Eric and his summer students spotted these wonderful phoronids, Phoronis vancouverensis , at the Spud Point Marina docks yesterday (3 July 2...

About a week ago, I wrote about Purple Sea Snails (Janthina umbilicata) .  We found those snails on 20 January.  A few days later, on 23 Ja...

Back in September, while doing a shorebird survey in Bodega Harbor, a couple of different egg masses on the tidal flats caught my eye. The...

  Here's another highlight from that abandoned crab trap pulled up from about 3 miles offshore of Bodega Head on 7 September 2014. ...