Happy Earth Day! Protecting our beautiful life-sustaining planet should be one of the highest priorities of every person.
Chris Janousek
@janousekwild.bsky.social
Research faculty in coastal #ecology, Oregon State Univ. Film and digital #photography, #botany, #phycology, backpacking, #wilderness enthusiast. Views my own. 🌱🌊🏳️🌈
High spring tides also mean exceptional low tides! I did some tidepooling, despite a little rain, at Lands End, SF. Finding a bunch of kelp crabs was very cool!
Very high spring tides (aka #kingtides though that is not a technical term) in San Francisco Bay today and tomorrow. This morning at Crissy Field the water was nearly up to dune vegetation. Driving into the city I saw flooding in Marin including an on-ramp to US101.
I can’t complain when this was my office for the day! We are conducting plant surveys for San Francisco Bay’s #WRMP (Wetland Regional Monitoring Program).
We saw whales off Point Reyes National Seashore this weekend!
We are starting a new project on the Oregon coast to better understand the drivers of tidal swamp distribution - elevation, salinity and groundwater. These data will help inform #restoration of these carbon-rich but now rare #estuary ecosystems dominated by trees and shrubs.
It is a beautiful day on the central Oregon coast and we had a great low tide this morning! Featured creatures: sea palms, a red alga, and giant green anemones.
Today I was able to return to field work in Poole Slough, a lovely branch of the Yaquina Estuary in Oregon, after about a decade away. We set up channel and groundwater monitoring stations in tidal marsh and tidal swamp.
Fun to find a ton of moon jellies floating into the Coos Estuary last evening on a rising tide.
I had a lovely field day this week in Suisun Marsh in the San Francisco #Estuary where a lot of marsh plants are still very much in bloom! - Helenium, Grindelia, Triglochin, and Trifolium pictured here
Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...
Support Sea Grant Funding – Sea Grant Association
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Eden Landing in South San Francisco Bay used to have a tidal station in the 1970s. I had been wondering where the tidal benchmarks might be. Found one 😂 #wrmp
That excitement when you find something new in the otherwise pickleweed (Salicornia pacifica) dominated marshes of San Francisco Bay!
I tripped at my field site yesterday and shattered my quadrat so I now have a new one ready for plant surveys. The simple field gear is often my favorite!
Tidal marsh vegetation surveys for the new Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) in the San Francisco Estuary are well underway! These surveys at 17+ sites across the estuary will occupy much of my working time over the next few months. @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social
This week we collected the first standard transect vegetation data in SF Bay’s new Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP)! Over the next few months we will survey 17+ sites from South Bay to Suisun Bay.
New spring growth on coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, at left and Dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, at right from the #ucdavis arboretum.
Some flowers and ferns from a short #bioblitz at Fernandez Ranch, Martinez, Calif yesterday: Colllinsia, Lupinus, ?Dryopteris, Pentagramma.
Oregon Public Broadcasting briefly covered our recent #bluecarbon research on the Pacific coast www.opb.org/article/2025...
Forested swamps on the Northwest coast are some of the biggest carbon storehouses around, new research finds
A new study suggests that restoring tidal swamps along the Pacific Northwest coastline could provide the most bang for your carbon storage buck.
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Spring wildflowers at Pt Reyes Natl Seashore: Ceanothus, Iris, Trillium, and Lupinus.
Spending time with charismatic megaflora. Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia) in Death Valley Natl Park.
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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I’ve been doing some alternative process photography recently to help maintain sanity. Here are 3 prints of an underwater iPhone image of giant kelp while snorkeling off Catalina Island in 2023. Cyanotype at left, salt print on platinum rag paper in middle, salt print on watercolor paper at right.
Salt print of giant #kelp from Southern California for #PhycologyFriday. Salt printing is a 19th century printing technique with salt and silver nitrate.
