News
- Our team is presenting at the California Seaweed Festival on October 24, 2026 in the Old Custom House Plaza in Monterey, CA. The event is free to all; come by our booth anytime during 9am-5pm, and watch for our presentation during the "Science Flash Talks: Kelp Forests” session starting at 11:30am in the Stanton Center Theater.
- 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:
Outreach Resources
Management-relevant summaries:
- 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
- Summary of regulatory tools for climate resilient restoration
- Summary of applications of satellite remote sensing to northern California’s coastal oceans
- Summary of drivers of resilience in kelp systems
Educational materials:
Presentations and performances:
- 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.
- Access a presentation by lead PI Marissa Baskett on models applied to kelp forest systems.
- Access our slides from our 2025 presentation at Kelp Fest
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.
