Known by several common names, including Christmas Anemone, Mottled Anemone, and Painted Anemone displays red and green areas on its column and uses its nematocysts to capture and eat crabs, mussels, fish, and other tidepool animals. They are common inhabitants of low intertidal to subtidal zones, from Alaska through California,…
by Gregg Langlois Corethron is a single-celled marine diatom, a group of photosynthetic algae considered to be the most ecologically-important organisms on the planet. Diatoms account for approximately 50% of the oxygen we breath and play a significant role in the capture and storage of carbon. Diatoms live in glass…
This year marks the 50th year of training Volunteer Naturalists at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. It was a long and often difficult journey to save the tidepools from human destruction, but we’ve made great strides and 50 years later we are now a Marine Protected Area. The Need for Protection In…