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There are sharks in San Francisco Bay. More of them than you might think. Bat rays cruise in muddy shallows. Smoothhounds slip along sandy shores. Sevengill sharks patrol deeper waters. And tucked into the wetlands and inlets of the Bay, young sharks and rays find sheltered places to feed, grow, and avoid predators.

For more than a decade, the SRJC–BML Internship Program has bridged Santa Rosa Junior College and the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, immersing students in transformative, hands-on scientific research.

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.

I am Raven Riley, a Biology major transferring to Sonoma State University this Fall. After a presentation by Liyu Mekonnen and Deva Holliman where they introduced my class to the SRJC-BML Internship, I jumped at the chance to combine my hobbies of programming, data analytics, and marine biology while developing transferable skills for my field of study, Behavioral Neuroscience.

My name is Susan Escoto and I am going into my third year as a biology student at the Santa Rosa Junior College. I have aspirations to transfer to UC Davis in the fall of 2028 to continue working towards a bachelor's degree in microbiology. From there I will apply to graduate school where I will study the human gut microbiome.