News
Our team presented at the 2025 North Coast Kelp Fest on Oct 5, 2025. Many thanks to the Noyo Center for hosting us! Slides available here.
Congratulations to graduate students Mei Blundell and Gabby Yang for receiving Bilinski Fellowships on their kelp restoration-related work!
Press releases on the grant:
Publications and Other Outputs
Publications:
- Speiser, W H and Largier, J L and Buscombe, D. (2025). Cross-Shore Dispersion of Turbid Waters by Wave-Driven Nearshore Flows: Remote Sensing of Rip Currents Off Rocky and Sandy Shores. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 130(11):e2025JC022833
- Ricart, A.M., Gómez, J.B., Karm, R.H., Largier, J.L., Bastos Correa De Souza, V., Dias, A.S., Velázquez, M.G., Nelson, T., Cavanaugh, K.C., Cavanaugh, K.C. and Hughes, B.B. (2025). Persistent kelp forests during a massive decline reveal the importance of land–sea connectivity. Ecology, 106(9), e70212
- Fisher, M.C., M.L. Baskett, A.C. Baker, A. Kidd, M.R. Springborn, T.A. Scott (2025). Preparing regulation for climate resilient restoration: Learning from emerging technologies. Conservation Letters, 18(4): e13128. full paper and management-relevant summary.
- Speiser, W. H., & Largier, J. L. (2024). High-Resolution Nearshore Sea Surface Temperature from Calibrated Landsat Brightness Data. Remote Sensing, 16(23), 4477. Management-relevant summary
- Arroyo‐Esquivel, J., Adams, R., Gravem, S., Whippo, R., Randell, Z., Hodin, J., Galloway, A.W., Gaylord, B. and Baskett, M.L. (2024). Multiple resiliency metrics reveal complementary drivers of ecosystem persistence: An application to kelp forest systems. Ecology, 105(12), e4453: full paper and management-relevant summary.
- Speiser, W. H., & Largier, J. L. (2024). Long-term observations of the turbid outflow plume from the Russian River, California. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 309, 108942. Management-relevant summary
Theses:
- Enevoldson, J. (2024). Assessing community perspectives to inform kelp forest restoration and management: The case of Mendocino Coast, California. Masters Thesis. Cal Poly Humboldt.
- Jackson, D. (2025). Investigating the refugial river mouth hypothesis: assessing the effects of low salinity conditions on the microscopic life stages of Nereocystis Leutkeana. Masters Thesis. Cal Poly Humboldt.
- Moitoza, F. (2025). Benthic community structure changes in Northern California following a marine heatwave. Masters Thesis. Cal Poly Humboldt.
- Speiser, W.H. (2024). Resolving the Nearshore: Remote Sensing and Data Driven Analysis of Fine-Scale Mixing, Turbidity, and Sea Surface Temperature of the Ocean off Northern California. PhD Thesis. UC Davis.
The effects of kelp forest loss and perceptions of intervention in the Monterey Bay area social-ecological system: Executive Summary and Full Report
Human Dimensions of the Kelp Ecosystem on the Mendocino Coast: A Policy Brief and Full Report
Access a presentation by lead PI Marissa Baskett on models applied to kelp forest systems.
Access ...all dripping in tangles green…, a music and dance interpretation of kelp decline and restoration by Mei Blundell, funded by the Bilinski Fellowship at BML.
