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Aaaand we’re back on our frames for another week of monitoring with the @SFPort and @ClimatePathways! 🤗 This week, our focus is to photograph and survey our small mid & high elevation tiles at the Ag Building & Pier 45! #LivingSeawalls#LivingSeawallPilotProject
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ALT Two SERC researchers (Corryn and Andy) monitor the Seawall at the Ag Building (Embarcadero). They’re standing on metal frames attached to the Seawall and smiling at the camera wearing field gear and PFDs. They’re also holding a large camera frame and other monitoring equipment.
ALT A metal frame and platform attached to the Seawall holds experimental tiles for the Port of SF’s Living Seawall Project.
Happy #FieldworkFriday! Our #LivingSeawall team is ecstatic/exhausted after a week of monitoring at the Ag Building & Pier 45 (yay for 6am low tides)! 😄 We successfully surveyed all our tiles and will wrap up summer monitoring at South Beach Harbor in a couple weeks!
ALT Frames and experimental tiles for the Living Seawall Project in #SFBay line the Seawall at Pier 45.
ALT Corryn (SERC grad student) poses on a frame with some feather boa kelp wrapped around her neck while still attached to one of the experimental tiles from the Living Seawall Project.
ALT A large colony of Watersipora is on the face of a large complex experimental tile for the SF Living Seawall Project. The colony is surrounded by other algae and marine invertebrates.
ALT SERC researcher Jessika is standing on a frame at Pier 45 for the Living Seawall Project in SFBay. She’s holding onto the frame while radioing to the boat team to come and pick her up and take her to another frame nearby.
Daisy Ramirez Lopez hosted a table for Pathways to help youth in the San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood learn about jobs focused in the Climate Change field. #ClimateAction#climatework#ClimateJustice
Water in Coastal California: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. A packed session at #CAF focused on compound flooding in East Palo Alto. Thanks to @NuestraCasa1 and @SPUR_Urbanist for helping lead these discussions with us!
Great session this morning at the 2023 California Adaptation Forum! Thank you to everyone who came and packed the room and brought up very thoughtful questions. Thank you to Jack Hogan (@Arup), Leah Fisher (@CaltransHQ), @KrisLMay, Whitney Brennan, and Christina Bejarano (WRT).
Happy #PhycologyFriday! 🤗 We found ample amounts of algae on our #LivingSeawall tiles this week—Ulva, Polyneura, Laminaria, Egregia, Cryptopleura, Undaria (🫣) and more! We’re on a mission to ID all the filamentous reds to species but let’s just say there were quite a few! 😅
ALT A low elevation tile removed from the Seawall at South Beach Harbor lies on a white folding table covered in large blades of red algae.
ALT A low elevation tile removed from the Seawall at South Beach Harbor lies on a white folding table covered in Ulva and Cryptopleura (algae).
ALT A low elevation tile removed from the Seawall at South Beach Harbor lies on a white folding table covered in large blades of brown and green algae as well as lots of marine invertebrates.
ALT A low elevation tile removed from the Seawall at South Beach Harbor lies on a white folding table covered in large blades of brown and red algae, as well as marine invertebrates.
ALT Two SERC researchers on the Living Seawall team (Chela Zabin and Corryn Knapp) monitor some low elevation tiles that are laid flat on a folding table on a dock at Pier 40. The tiles are covered in algae and other marine invertebrates. Corryn is photographing a tile whole Chela investigates another and notes down different species.
ALT Two SERC researchers on the Living Seawall team (Chela Zabin and Jessika de Jesus) monitor some low elevation tiles that are laid flat on a folding table on a dock at Pier 40. The tiles are covered in algae and other marine invertebrates. One of the SF Port divers (Drew) sits in a small boat next to the dock waiting to put the tiles back out on the Embarcadero Seawall.
More waves crashing over the shoreline between Pier 14 and the Bay Bridge. Bay water levels were 2 feet below mean higher high tide. So imagine if this occurred at high tide. Now imagine 2 more feet of sea level rise.
Video: Stephen Reel @SFPort
Tune in today at 9 am PT and listen to @KrisLMay, @ezraromero, and @sfbcdc discuss how the Bay Area is getting ready for climate change and the challenges we face as sea levels and the groundwater table rise.
#ClimateCrisiskqed.org/forum/2010101892296…
“… the adaptation plans… they’re going to cost billions of dollars,” said @KrisLMay, “And if we build all this infrastructure to keep the bay out without considering the groundwater rise, we might not be solving the flooding problem”. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…