The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute's Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML) is a leader in multidisciplinary research aimed at solving complex environmental problems in coastal ecosystems. We foster an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to address challenging questions at the rapidly changing land-sea interface, including:
Climate Change
- Bodega Ocean Acidification Research (BOAR)
- Ecological Climate Change Studies
- NSF Supported Climate Change Facility
- Oceanographic Studies
- Paleoclimate Research
- Restoration of Native Olympia Oysters Under Climate Change
Coastal Oceanography
- Coastal Upwelling
- Estuaries and Land Runoff
- Larval Dispersal and Biological Oceanography
- Nearshore Oceanography and Hydrodynamics
- Ocean Observing Systems
- Physical Oceanography
Conservation and Restoration
- California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program
- Marine Invertebrate Fisheries and Conservation
- Restoration of Native Olympia Oysters
- Salt Marsh Restoration following Eradication of Spartina
- Salmonid Conservation
- White Abalone Conservation
- Kelp Restoration
Ecology and Evolution
- Biodiversity and Community Ecology
- Terrestrial Ecology
- Ecomechanics
- Invasive Species
- Climate Change and Biological Invasions
- NSF Supported Non-Indigenous/Invasive Species and Pathogen Facilities
Ocean Health
- Contaminants in the Marine/Estuarine Environments
- Endocrine Disruption in the Bay-Delta
- Nanoecotoxicology
- Plumes and Coastal Water Quality
- Shellfish Pathology