November 8th, 2024: This week under Scripps Pier, in La Jolla San Diego, ocean observers have been able to witness the beautiful blue bioluminescence of a plankton called Lingulodinium polyedra. From under the microscropic imaging instrumentation deployed at the end of this pier, we get another exciting look at this species! Our advanced instrumentation, called […]

https://sccoos.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cellular_domoic_2024-10-01_2024-10-31_daily_7.mp4 The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued two sets of advisories against consuming Dungeness Crab in parts of Northern California due to risk of Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning from domoic acid (DA). CDPH conducts regular sampling and biomonitoring of shellfish for this toxin, and found high levels in significant portions of crabs caught […]