Photo: A sea otter in the estuarine water of Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, Calif. Emma Levy The California sea otter,…
Photo credit: California Department of Water Resources Earlier this month, I was working my way through my morning emails and…
The base of the estuarine food web is phytoplankton – microscopic, floating, single-celled organisms drifting on the currents (“phyto” meaning…
After 16 years of working in the San Francisco Estuary, including serving as a manager for key regional agencies, I…
Photo: Shifting tides Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland in cleaner times, above left, and after a devastating algal bloom brought…
