Скачать или смотреть Episode 3 - Eelgrass Habitat Suitability Model

Today we are talking about a Prop 68 Project to develop an Eelgrass Habitat Suitability Model for San Francisco Bay--where many of California’s eelgrass enhancement and mitigation projects have been conducted. In order to successfully restore eelgrass, we need to first find the best locations to restore, which is not as easy as it may sound.

The goal of this project is to update an Eelgrass Habitat Suitability Model (HSM) that was first developed by Merkel & Associates more than 10 years ago. Not only do we have much better data today than was available 10 years ago, we also know much more about the conditions that eelgrass needs to successfully establish and expand, post-restoration. This project takes advantage of the wealth of data now available and applies lessons learned from previous restoration projects and our improved understanding of how eelgrass may respond to climate impacts to develop an adaptive, climate-smart HSM. "We have learned a lot through our restoration efforts about what works and what doesn't, but site selection remains a tricky problem, especially as we think about the future of eelgrass habitats as conditions shift with climate change", states Dr. Katharyn Boyer, the lead academic on the project.

Credits:
Video Production, Editing, and Narration: Kat Beheshti
Interview Filmed By: Madeline McEwen
Interview Audio: Madeline McEwen
Field Footage (unless otherwise credited) By: Kat Beheshti
Drone Footage By: Whelan Gilkerson

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