Tag Archives: tidepool
Tidepool Research Worksheet
Use these questions to guide a research project about tide pools and the animals that call this unique habitat home.
Let’s Discover Tidepools PowerPoint
Learn about California’s tide pools in this PowerPoint presentation filled with photos and facts about the intertidal zone.
Sea star wasting disease is still a mystery, but CSUF researchers are on the case
It’s a sea mystery that has stumped scientists along the West Coast for years. But a group of Cal State Fullerton students and marine biologists are on the hunt for answers about a mysterious epidemic that wiped out millions of sea stars in recent years.
How California’s sea stars are evolving past a devastating pandemic
In 2012, environmental systems graduate student Lauren Schiebelhut was collecting DNA from ochre sea stars living along the Northern California coast—part of an effort to study genetic diversity in various marine species that serve as indicators of habitat health. She had no idea that just one year later, most of the sea stars would be […]