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How Jumping Spiders Pounce Like Cats
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/17/25 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/17/25

How Jumping Spiders Pounce Like Cats

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Rainy-Day Hikes in the Bay Area
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 1/30/25 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 1/30/25

Rainy-Day Hikes in the Bay Area

Put on your raincoat and go see some salamanders.

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A Place to See Geological Fault Lines in the Bay Area
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 12/24/24 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 12/24/24

A Place to See Geological Fault Lines in the Bay Area

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AIs Are Beginning to Illuminate the Deep Sea
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 11/12/24 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 11/12/24

AIs Are Beginning to Illuminate the Deep Sea

Scientists are racing to understand deep sea ecosystems before human activity transforms them forever.

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Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 11/7/24 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 11/7/24

Raising Hungry Sea Star Babies

Scientists want to reintroduce these many-armed roombas as a great help for kelp.

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A New Park in San Francisco’s Mission Bay Neighborhood
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 9/3/24 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 9/3/24

A New Park in San Francisco’s Mission Bay Neighborhood

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College Student Discovers 11 New Species of Predatory Worms in Bodega Bay
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 8/9/24 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 8/9/24

College Student Discovers 11 New Species of Predatory Worms in Bodega Bay

A UC Davis college student found 11 brand-new-to-science species of ribbon worms—diminutive, squirmy, colorful predators—lurking along Bodega Bay’s coastline.

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California May List Ancient, Iconic White Sturgeon as Threatened
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/18/24 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/18/24

California May List Ancient, Iconic White Sturgeon as Threatened

The Bay’s white sturgeon are now facing such peril that the state of California has closed fishing for them under emergency regulations while it considers listing them as a threatened species.

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A Lush Gem Nestled on Napa Valley’s Slopes
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/3/24 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/3/24

A Lush Gem Nestled on Napa Valley’s Slopes

Napa County’s Archer Taylor Preserve offers redwood hikes, cascades, understory wildflowers, and restoration volunteering.

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All Vaxxed Up and Ready to Roost, Six Captive-Born Condors Fly Free
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 11/29/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 11/29/23

All Vaxxed Up and Ready to Roost, Six Captive-Born Condors Fly Free

But, faced with freedom, they take their sweet time about it. "We're on condor time," says one program manager.

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A Jewel of the South Bay’s Serpentine Grasslands Is Now Protected (and Open to the Public)
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 9/21/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 9/21/23

A Jewel of the South Bay’s Serpentine Grasslands Is Now Protected (and Open to the Public)

"Coyote Ridge is the mother lode for serpentine habitat," says Andrea Mackenzie

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The Secret Lives of Baby Tidepool Creatures
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/27/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/27/23

The Secret Lives of Baby Tidepool Creatures

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Can We Prevent Another Algaepocalypse in the Bay?
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/10/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/10/23

Can We Prevent Another Algaepocalypse in the Bay?

Nitrogen from wastewater fuels algae blooms. We can’t stop peeing, but we can upgrade our wastewater plants.

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Recharge Alone Won’t End California’s Groundwater Drought
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/5/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/5/23

Recharge Alone Won’t End California’s Groundwater Drought

Groundwater sustainability will take more than one epic rain year, and recharging aquifers is just one piece of the puzzle.

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The Rewilding of California’s Parched Central Valley
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/4/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 7/4/23

The Rewilding of California’s Parched Central Valley

Amid droughts and depleted aquifers, farmers must choose which land goes dry. Their choices will shape California’s future.

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Time Traveling With Clam Fossils
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/22/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/22/23

Time Traveling With Clam Fossils

Every fossil is part of a bigger story.

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Birds Flock to a Resurrected Tulare Lake, Peaking at Nearly the Size of Lake Tahoe
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/15/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 6/15/23

Birds Flock to a Resurrected Tulare Lake, Peaking at Nearly the Size of Lake Tahoe

Tulare Lake and nearby floodwaters could stick around for over a year, providing ample wetland habitat for birds in the southern Central Valley.

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Don’t Blame the Bark Beetles
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 5/9/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 5/9/23

Don’t Blame the Bark Beetles

The squiggly grooves on dead logs are the telltale traces of bark beetles, which shape the lives and deaths of stressed-out trees.

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How the DNA We Leave Behind Can Help Conservation
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 5/3/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 5/3/23

How the DNA We Leave Behind Can Help Conservation

California land and water managers are adopting genetic tools to monitor biodiversity, detect invasive and endangered species, and track how ecosystems change over time.

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Avian Flu Claims at Least 7 California Condors—and a Beloved Bay Area Peregrine Falcon
Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 4/13/23 Bay Nature Guanani Gomez-Van Cortright 4/13/23

Avian Flu Claims at Least 7 California Condors—and a Beloved Bay Area Peregrine Falcon

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