National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Cross-Shelf Larval Migrations Regulating Larval Supply and Connectivity in a Network of Marine Reserves
Contrary to prevailing view, invertebrate larvae are not mere passive floats swept hither and yon by ocean currents, say the scientists leading this project.

The Role of Symbiotic Bacterial Metabolites in the Development of Toxic Phytoplankton Blooms
What if some harmful algal blooms are triggered by certain kinds of bacteria?

Krill and Krill Predators: Ecosystem-Based Management in the Gulf of the Farallones-Cordell Bank Krill Production Domain
Euphausiid crustaceans (krill) are a critical source of carbon in marine food webs, providing food for hake, Chinook and Coho salmon, rockfishes, seabirds and large whales.

Integrating Molecular Data into a Robust Population Framework for an Apex Predator
This project seeks to identify the population structure of the shortfin mako shark in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

Understanding the Influence of a Variable Ocean Environment on Chinook Salmon (Oncorhyncus tshawytscha)
All along the West Coast, chinook salmon returns are highly variable and extremely difficult to predict from year to year.

Assessing the Robustness of the Salmon Stock Assessment Process via a Life History Simulator
Stock assessments are based on many assumptions about a species’ life history characteristics and population dynamics.

Modeling the Effects of Interspecies Facilitation on Recruitment Success and Population Stability in Dwarf Rockfishes (Sebastes spp.)
This project seeks to clarify the conditions under which predator-prey relationships and interspecies competition should be included in fisheries models.

Development of Novel Stock Assessment Methods for Market Squid (Doryteuthis opalescens)
The California market squid is the state’s most valuable fishery, worth an estimated $56 million ex-vessel in 2009, compared with a combined $96 million for all other fisheries that year.

Exploiting Marine Actinomycete Diversity for Natural Product Discovery
Significant progress has been made in understanding the evolution of secondary metabolite genes associated with a group of pharmaceutically promising marine bacteria known as MAR4, collected off th

Paradigm or Paradox: Can We Attribute Species Changes to Global Climate Change in Light of Decreasing Water Temperatures in Central California?
Overall and since the late 1970s, there has been a warming of upper waters of the California Current off California, a decline in its biological productivity (i.e., phytoplankton abundance), and an