Oodles of nudibranchs showed up in Lake Merritt after the harmful algal bloom of August 2022. These sea slugs appeared in record breaking numbers, taking Oakland’s beloved tidal lagoon by storm.
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Ask the Naturalist
How Do I Start Out Tidepooling?
Which species am I most likely to see in a Northern California tidepool, and how can I try to identify them? There is something fascinating about tidepools. They are places of liminality, an in-between world that is neither fully land … Read more
Climate Change
Meet the Scientist Who Has Discovered More Than 1,000 Species of Sea Slug
Terry Gosliner, a curator at the California Academy of Sciences, looks through nudibranchs to see the world.
Climate Change
A Pretty Pink Nudibranch Moves North, and It’s a ‘Canary in the Tidepool’ for Climate Change
At low tide on the North Coast right now, the tidepools teem with Hopkins’ rose nudibranchs. “This is not normal business as usual,” says scientist Terry Gosliner.
Wildlife
Nudibranchs, Kings of the Tidepool, Command An Audience
There are lots of pretty pictures of the 3,000 nudibranchs species already discovered, but few specifics. Key elements of their fundamental biology are still poorly understood, or not understood at all. Or not even examined.
