In early June 2025, CMSI sponsored a hands-on workshop at Bodega Marine Laboratory focused on using R to wrangle and analyze Earth System Model (ESM) output (AKA climate models).
“So the clue was, ‘This temperate coral undergoes quiescence in the winter. Another word for this is … ?’” Anya Brown has spent most of her adult life around coral reef systems. Her brother, meanwhile, has cultivated a career as a writer on the American quiz show, “Jeopardy!”
At the Bodega Marine Laboratory, science leapt beyond the lab bench in a surprising collaboration—part fashion show, part modern dance, part film screening—where artistic expression met ecological research on the Sonoma Coast.
After a summer of tide pooling and hands-on marine research at Bodega Marine Laboratory, UC Davis undergrads Makayla Peixoto and Jessica Bartolome returned to campus as peer advisors, helping future students discover their own path to the coast.
What does it mean to learn marine science by doing? For students in the inaugural Fall Quarter at Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML), it meant using a clam gun to reveal burrowing invertebrates in the mudflats, tagging coho salmon to help monitor wild fish populations, and practicing the slow, stealthy skill of catching sculpin with bare hands.
As an assistant diving and boating safety officer for UC Davis based at Bodega Marine Laboratory, Dias works with UC Davis researchers to coordinate and provide guidance for critical fieldwork that’s helping us understand the health of our oceans and waterways, and in turn, our global climate.
Beneath the water, weightlessness envelops the body and sounds are amplified. The hiss of the regulator chimes like a metronome, mixing with the natural soundscape produced by ocean creatures and processes: the crunch from fish as they nibble on coral reefs and the crash of the waves above.
The Science Coalition has announced the winners of its sixth-annual Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge. This year’s first place winners include University of California Davis graduate student Deva Holliman and University of California Davis undergraduate students Nathan Cole and Kaden Stone.
For over a decade, the SRJC-BML Internship Program has offered Santa Rosa Junior College students hands-on research opportunities at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, connecting the JC students with UC Davis graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff mentors across a range of scientific fields.
Stephanie Arriaza is a student at Santa Rosa Junior College studying Environmental Studies with an interest in studying biology upon transferring to CSU. Stephanie worked in the White Abalone Culture Lab during a summer internship at BML.
