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.
○ Recent News and Highlights
○ Related Strength: Species Impact
Selected Publications
Cunningham S., Gardner L., Grand M., et al., (2025). Optimizing Bromoform Content in Gracilaria Parvispora: The Role of Environmental Stressors. Journal of Applied Phycology.
deVries, M., Lowder, K., & Taylor, J. (2021). From telson to attack in mantis shrimp: bridging biomechanics and behavior in crustacean conflicts. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(2).
Ghezzehei, T., Sulman, B., Arnold, C., Bogie, N. A., and Berhe, A. (2019). On the role of soil water retention characteristic on aerobic microbial respiration. Biogeosciences, 16(6).
Hamilton S., et al., (2022). Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture mitigates the effects of ocean acidification: seaweeds raise system pH and improve growth of juvenile abalone. Aquaculture, 560.
Heller, P. (2022). Diel gene expression improves software prediction of cyanobacterial operons. PeerJ, 10.
Wood, M., et al. (2021). Ocean forcing drives glacier retreat in Greenland. Science Advances, 7(1).
Wood, M., Carroll, D., Fenty, I., et al. (2025). Increased Melt from Greenland’s Most Active Glacier Fuels Enhanced Coastal Productivity. Nature, Communications Earth & Environment 6(626).
Millan, R., Jager, E., Mouginot, J., Wood, M., Larsen, S., Mathiot, P., Jourdain, N. C., Bjørk, A. (2023). Rapid disintegration and weakening of ice shelves in North Greenland. Nature Communications, 14.
Award Highlights
DeVries, "Examining the capacity of seaweed and shellfish co-culture to improve the physiology, biomechanics, and outplanting of farmed juvenile abalone and oysters" — NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grants Competition, 2022
Graham, Hamilton, “Assessment of Practical Methods for ReEstablishment of Bull Kelp Populations at an Ecologically Relevant Scale” — UCSD, 2023
Hamilton, Starr, “California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program – Monitoring and Evaluation of California Marine Protected Areas” — California Natural Resources Agency, 2023
Hamilton, “California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program North and South Coast Monitoring” — CA Department of Fish & Wildlife, 2021
Shaffer, California Academy of Sciences Fellow, 2022
Wood, “Greenland Ocean Observations (GOO)” — Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2022
Featured Faculty
Maya deVries
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Marine Biology and Ecology, Climate Change, Aquaculture, Ecomechanics, Invertebrates,
Coral Reefs, Kelp Forests
ORCID: 0000-0003-1276-1993
Luke Gardner
Research Faculty and CA Sea Grant Aquaculture Specialist
Aquaculture, Nutrition, Genomics, Physiology
ORCID: 0000-0003-0313-2589
Michael Graham
Professor at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Seaweed Ecology and Physiology, Kelp Forest Ecology,
Climate Change and Kelp Systems
ORCID: 0000-0003-0731-1111
Scott Hamilton
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
Mike Wood
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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