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New research from the University of California, Davis reveals why adding crushed shells to beach sand helps protect shell-making animals — such as clams, oysters and mussels — from the detrimental effects of ocean acidification.

The Western Society of Naturalists (WSN) annual conference is just around the corner, and many of our UC Davis and CMSI community will be there! To help you connect, support, and cheer on your colleagues, we’ve put together a lineup of all the talks and posters featuring CMSI-affiliated researchers.

Anya Brown, a National Geographic Explorer and assistant professor of evolution and ecology, will be featured in the upcoming film Expedition: Saving Our Seas, premiering Friday, November 13, at 9 p.m. EST on National Geographic and streaming November 14 on Disney+ and Hulu.

Congratulations to Darrielle Williams, a Ph.D. student in Integrative Pathobiology at the University of California, Davis, working under the mentorship of Dr. Karen Shapiro. Darrielle was recently awarded a Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship through the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

Eric Sanford and Rachael Bay have recently been awarded a new grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF). Their project, “Evolution of Dispersal Traits During a Geographic Range Expansion”

Funded by the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC), California Sea Grant will administer more than $6 million to nine research and restoration projects to inform the state’s goal of conserving thirty percent of its lands and coastal waters by 2030. Among them are four projects involving researchers at the University of California, Davis, working in the coastal and marine sciences.

Bilinski fellowships are awarded to outstanding doctoral students whose selected projects, based at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, exhibit innovation, collaboration, and are a key component of the student’s final dissertation.

Melting and breaking icebergs in the far-off, northeastern region of the Pacific Ocean can weaken a massive current system in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a University of California, Davis study published in Nature Communications.

On her first day of graduate school, Karolina Zabinski rose at 4:00am. She spent the day on the muddy shores of Tomales Bay, collecting eelgrass for a survey of aquatic plant diseases. These ribbon-like seagrasses are common along the California coast and form knee-high meadows that undulate in the water.

Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it’s because about 50 million years ago, some fish figured out how to bite food from hard surfaces.