Tangled hues: brown, green, & red. #MarineLife #Algae
February 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Tangled hues: brown, green, & red. #MarineLife #Algae
June 16, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Photosynthesizing *Phyllospadix* fronds! Surfgrass is an angiosperm that lives on rocky shores. The tiny bubbles are oxygen it is producing & releasing into the tide pool. #MarineLife
February 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Photosynthesizing *Phyllospadix* fronds! Surfgrass is an angiosperm that lives on rocky shores. The tiny bubbles are oxygen it is producing & releasing into the tide pool. #MarineLife
It’s World Seagrass Day! 💚🌱🌊
Three species of seagrass can be found in the Salish Sea: Eelgrass (Zostera marina), Japanese eelgrass (Zostera japonica) and surf grass (Phyllospadix sp.).
Three species of seagrass can be found in the Salish Sea: Eelgrass (Zostera marina), Japanese eelgrass (Zostera japonica) and surf grass (Phyllospadix sp.).
March 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s World Seagrass Day! 💚🌱🌊
Three species of seagrass can be found in the Salish Sea: Eelgrass (Zostera marina), Japanese eelgrass (Zostera japonica) and surf grass (Phyllospadix sp.).
Three species of seagrass can be found in the Salish Sea: Eelgrass (Zostera marina), Japanese eelgrass (Zostera japonica) and surf grass (Phyllospadix sp.).
Today’s explorations included our final North Coast site 🎉…
February 9, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Today’s explorations included our final North Coast site 🎉…
Why I love marine labs 💙🌊🧪: A quick lunchtime walk reveals surfgrass #Phyllospadix recruiting on green algal filaments of #Chaetomorpha. #PhycologyFriday @bodegamarinelab
November 14, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Why I love marine labs 💙🌊🧪: A quick lunchtime walk reveals surfgrass #Phyllospadix recruiting on green algal filaments of #Chaetomorpha. #PhycologyFriday @bodegamarinelab
November 14, 2024 at 8:01 AM
With the help of multiple team members, we were able to replant more phyllospadix in one of our new boxes! I know it’s a plant, but Instill think it counts for #phycologyfriday.
March 13, 2026 at 3:33 PM
With the help of multiple team members, we were able to replant more phyllospadix in one of our new boxes! I know it’s a plant, but Instill think it counts for #phycologyfriday.
Plocamium pacificum from San Francisco for #phycologyfriday. It’s a little battered this time of year, but this species makes beautiful pressings. In southern CA, it’s commonly associated with #surfgrass, Phyllospadix torreyi.
December 6, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Plocamium pacificum from San Francisco for #phycologyfriday. It’s a little battered this time of year, but this species makes beautiful pressings. In southern CA, it’s commonly associated with #surfgrass, Phyllospadix torreyi.
That phyllospadix tho 🥺
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
That phyllospadix tho 🥺
An intertidal bed of the kelp Eisenia arborea near Big Beach, Ucluelet. This species has a stronghold in California and scattered populations in British Columbia. It is interesting to speculate how this has arisen. #phycologyfriday #eisenia #eiseniaarborea #kelp #phycology #seaweed #marinebiology
January 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
An intertidal bed of the kelp Eisenia arborea near Big Beach, Ucluelet. This species has a stronghold in California and scattered populations in British Columbia. It is interesting to speculate how this has arisen. #phycologyfriday #eisenia #eiseniaarborea #kelp #phycology #seaweed #marinebiology
Crossing thermal limits: functional collapse of the surfgrass Phyllospadix scouleri under extreme marine heatwaves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688107v1
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Crossing thermal limits: functional collapse of the surfgrass Phyllospadix scouleri under extreme marine heatwaves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688107v1
Took spouse for mother's day morning beach walk and picnic.
Worked on my favorite sport of advanced beach napping.
Abundant flotsam and jetsam seaweed rack gave my sweetie some cyanotype inspiration.
Lots of mole crabs and winged forager nibbling on them.
Worked on my favorite sport of advanced beach napping.
Abundant flotsam and jetsam seaweed rack gave my sweetie some cyanotype inspiration.
Lots of mole crabs and winged forager nibbling on them.
May 11, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Took spouse for mother's day morning beach walk and picnic.
Worked on my favorite sport of advanced beach napping.
Abundant flotsam and jetsam seaweed rack gave my sweetie some cyanotype inspiration.
Lots of mole crabs and winged forager nibbling on them.
Worked on my favorite sport of advanced beach napping.
Abundant flotsam and jetsam seaweed rack gave my sweetie some cyanotype inspiration.
Lots of mole crabs and winged forager nibbling on them.
🌊 The surfgrass Phyllospadix torreyi, a keystone species of the North Pacific, now has a chromosome-level genome. Scientists describe a massive Y chromosome in males, shedding light on sex chromosome evolution in marine plants.
(Photo: marine.ucsc.edu/targ...)
(Photo: marine.ucsc.edu/targ...)
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🌊 The surfgrass Phyllospadix torreyi, a keystone species of the North Pacific, now has a chromosome-level genome. Scientists describe a massive Y chromosome in males, shedding light on sex chromosome evolution in marine plants.
(Photo: marine.ucsc.edu/targ...)
(Photo: marine.ucsc.edu/targ...)
Omg yes!! There's a species that feeds on phyllospadix rhizomes, but they're often mingling with Eubranchus slugs on sertularella (or other hydroids at the base of surf grass) idk if they eat the hydroids or slug eggs. That's my best Intertider Spider advice.
May 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Omg yes!! There's a species that feeds on phyllospadix rhizomes, but they're often mingling with Eubranchus slugs on sertularella (or other hydroids at the base of surf grass) idk if they eat the hydroids or slug eggs. That's my best Intertider Spider advice.
Marine macrophytes: Surfgrass (Phyllospadix) at @CrystalCoveSP #MacrophyteMonday @JoLatimore
November 14, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Marine macrophytes: Surfgrass (Phyllospadix) at @CrystalCoveSP #MacrophyteMonday @JoLatimore
*Phyllospadix* flowers! These surfgrasses are derived from terrestrial flowering plants that returned to the ocean. 🌊🌱 @KMonuki
November 14, 2024 at 10:23 AM
*Phyllospadix* flowers! These surfgrasses are derived from terrestrial flowering plants that returned to the ocean. 🌊🌱 @KMonuki
Beautiful community of algae and phyllospadix too 😍 it'll be a few months before I see those sights in daylight again
November 25, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Beautiful community of algae and phyllospadix too 😍 it'll be a few months before I see those sights in daylight again
Wait till they find out that that seagrass thatch won’t be woven until 2200 CE.
[‘Chumash Ethnobotany’ (2007), Jan Timbrook e. Chris Chapman, pg 140 (‘Surf Grass, Seagrass (Phyllospadix torreyi)’]
[‘Chumash Ethnobotany’ (2007), Jan Timbrook e. Chris Chapman, pg 140 (‘Surf Grass, Seagrass (Phyllospadix torreyi)’]
![An excerpt from ‘Chumash Ethnobotany’
“…its leaves are usually much wider. Samples of remarkably well-preserved Phyllospadix thatch from archaeological house remains on Santa Rosa Island have been radiocarbon dated to 1860 ± 340 (text highlighted) years before present (Orr 1968:2 12). Resistant to decay and to fire, surf-grass was an excellent substitute for tule (Scirpus) and cattail (Typha), which are relatively scarce on the islands.”
[‘Chumash Ethnobotany’ (2007), Jan Timbrook e. Chris Chapman, pg 140 (‘Surf Grass, Seagrass (Phyllospadix torreyi)’]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cxybexjtjzajksn54ya7utna/bafkreierjq7kmpjltbrx6ln6tyulpphgai6zicolptwkz4mizsc2rgwmdu)
December 27, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Wait till they find out that that seagrass thatch won’t be woven until 2200 CE.
[‘Chumash Ethnobotany’ (2007), Jan Timbrook e. Chris Chapman, pg 140 (‘Surf Grass, Seagrass (Phyllospadix torreyi)’]
[‘Chumash Ethnobotany’ (2007), Jan Timbrook e. Chris Chapman, pg 140 (‘Surf Grass, Seagrass (Phyllospadix torreyi)’]
Crossing thermal limits: functional collapse of the surfgrass Phyllospadix scouleri under extreme marine heatwaves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688107v1
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Crossing thermal limits: functional collapse of the surfgrass Phyllospadix scouleri under extreme marine heatwaves https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688107v1