May 30, 2007
Sea Invaders: Marine Biology Is Cool
Picture from the QUEST science blog
There's been much ado about the rather large sea dwellers that have recently visited our general area. On KQED's blog, we saw that Amy Miller, a coordinating producer for QUEST, posted about a recent show they've aired focusing on the smaller sea-dwelling visitors to our area.
She says:
Scoop a handful of critters out of the San Francisco Bay and you’ll find tourists from far away shores. Invasive kinds of mussels, fish and more are choking out native species, challenging experts around the state to change the human behavior that brings them here.
Intrigued? Check out the show online, whenever you want (or, if you prefer traditional TV, check your local listings).
There are some amazing things happening in our backyard. QUEST is a KQED series that takes a multimedia approach to covering them. Man, between this and Check Please!, KQED is shaping up to be our favorite channel.
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they look...ew.
More info about and photos of San Francisco Bay marine invaders are at the Exotics Guide, www.exoticsguide.org/species_list.html.
Yuckiness -- or beauty -- is in the eye of the beholder. For beauty, I'd scroll down to and enlarge the middle pictures of the Indian Ocean tubeworm, Ficopomatus enigmaticus; the latter pictures of the Asian bryozoan, Watersipora subtorquata; or the first couple of pictures of the North Atlantic sea squirt, Botryllus schlosseri. All of them common in San Francisco Bay, if you know where to look.