Mariculture
Aquaculture and Ocean Chemistry
Researchers investigate climate change effects on ocean chemistry and vital fishery
species. At the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Aquaculture Facility, they simulate
ocean chemistry changes to assess impacts on fish life stages.
Experts examine critical life processes, acidification, and hypoxia and develop sustainable aquaculture solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change. Below is a rotating selection of our standout investigators in this area.
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Selected Publications
Cunningham S., Gardner L., Grand M., et al., (2025). . Journal of Applied Phycology.
deVries, M., Lowder, K., & Taylor, J. (2021). . Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(2).
Ghezzehei, T., Sulman, B., Arnold, C., Bogie, N. A., and Berhe, A. (2019). . Biogeosciences, 16(6).
Hamilton S., et al., (2022). . Aquaculture, 560.
Heller, P. (2022). Diel gene expression improves software prediction of cyanobacterial operons. PeerJ, 10.
Walker, J., O'Connor, K., et al. (2025). . Restoration Ecology, 33(5).
Wood, M., et al. (2021). . Science Advances, 7(1).
Wood, M., Carroll, D., Fenty, I., et al. (2025). . Nature, Communications Earth & Environment 6(626).
Millan, R., Jager, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M., Larsen, S., Mathiot, P., Jourdain, N. C., Bj酶rk, A. (2023). . Nature Communications, 14.
Award Highlights
Carroll, "GEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Exploring AMOC Controls on the North Atlantic Carbon Sink Using Novel Inverse and Data-Constrained Models" 鈥� NSF, 2024
DeVries, "Examining the capacity of seaweed and shellfish co-culture to improve the physiology, biomechanics, and outplanting of farmed juvenile abalone and oysters" 鈥� NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grants Competition, 2022
Graham, Hamilton, 鈥淎ssessment of Practical Methods for ReEstablishment of Bull Kelp Populations at an Ecologically Relevant Scale鈥� 鈥� UCSD, 2023
Hamilton, Starr, 鈥淐alifornia Collaborative Fisheries Research Program 鈥� Monitoring and Evaluation of California Marine Protected Areas鈥� 鈥� California Natural Resources Agency, 2023
Hamilton, 鈥淐alifornia Collaborative Fisheries Research Program North and South Coast Monitoring鈥� 鈥� CA Department of Fish & Wildlife, 2021
O'Connor, "Regional Adaptation for Climate Resilience of Monterey Bay Coastal Communities" 鈥� CA Marine Sanctuary Foundation
Shaffer, California Academy of Sciences Fellow, 2022
Wood, 鈥淕reenland Ocean Observations (GOO)鈥� 鈥� Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2022
Affiliates
Featured Faculty
Project Director
Numerical Ocean Modeling, Physical Oceanography, Data Assimilation, Ocean Ice Biogeochemistry
0000-0002-3174-5190
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Marine Biology and Ecology, Climate Change, Aquaculture, Ecomechanics, Invertebrates,
Coral Reefs, Kelp Forests
ORCID: 0000-0003-1276-1993
Research Faculty and CA Sea Grant Aquaculture Specialist
Aquaculture, Nutrition, Genomics, Physiology
ORCID: 0000-0003-0313-2589
Professor at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Seaweed Ecology and Physiology, Kelp Forest Ecology,
Climate Change and Kelp Systems
ORCID: 0000-0003-0731-1111
Professor of Biological Sciences
Fish Ecology, Global Change Biology, Fisheries Science, Conservation, Marine Protection,
Kelp Forest, Coral Reef, Aquaculture
ORCID: 0000-0001-5034-4213
Philip Heller
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Neural Networks, Computational Marine Biology, Coral Reef Resilience
ORCID: 0000-0001-5986-1444
Program Director
Wetland Monitoring and Assessment, Regional Water and Climate Resilience Planning,
Coastal Habitat Restoration, Water Quality Enhancement
0000-0002-8169-968X
Assistant Professor of Biological Oceanography
Ice-Ocean Interactions, Sea Level Rise, Numerical Ocean Modeling, Remote Sensing
ORCID: 0000-0003-3074-7845
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