{"id":132,"date":"2025-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weebly-import-post-132"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:43:21","slug":"students-explore-tidal-marsh","status":"publish","type":"wingbeat","link":"https:\/\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wingbeat\/students-explore-tidal-marsh\/","title":{"rendered":"University Students Explore Tidal Marsh Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\"><strong>By SFBBO Science Director Eric Lynch<\/strong><\/div> <div><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sfbbo-test.twomoons.systems\/staging\/1924\/wp-content\/uploads\/weebly-migration\/image-2-orig-orig.png?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b<span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">On February 6th, 2025, SFBBO&#8217;s Habitat Conservation team partnered with Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful to host San Jose State University&#8217;s Field Studies in Water Resource Management class at our restoration site near Mallard Slough and Pond A16 in Alviso.<br\/><br\/>\u200bThe students braved some wet, windy, and muddy conditions while adding 175 native plants to our restoration site. SFBBO staff and the students discussed some of the major conservation issues affecting San Francisco Bay&#8217;s tidal marshes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n  <div class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Students also learned about the dual focus of this project which seeks to improve tidal marsh-upland transition zone habitat along Mallard Slough and pond-adjacent habitat along Pond A16. Both aspects of the project involve replacing invasive plants with local, native species.<br\/><br\/>Along Mallard Slough the goal is to create dense, year round vegetation to provide high-tide refugia for tidal marsh species, while the work adjacent to Pond A16 is designed to create a low-growing native plant community that will compete well with invasive plants while providing minimal cover for terrestrial predators of shorebirds and waterfowl.<\/span><br\/><\/div> <div class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">The SJSU class was led by Dr. Costanza Rampini, who has regularly brought her classes to help participate in SFBBO habitat restoration over the years.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;The students and I had fun planting native species\u00a0near Mallard Slough and Pond A16 in Alviso and we learned a lot,&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Dr. Rampini said. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">It was also a great team bonding exercise, and despite the cold and rainy weather, my students were all smiles by the end of\u00a0the day.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span>\u200b<\/div> <div class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">This project is funded primarily through a grant from Valley Water, but has also received funding from Cargill and other SFBBO donors. We are very fortunate to have enjoyed the support of our partners at Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful for all of the volunteer events associated with this project.<\/span><br\/><\/div> <div class=\"paragraph\">\u200b\u200b<span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">\u200b<\/span><em><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Eric Lynch a science director at SFBBO who specializes in habitat restoration.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">He received his B.A. in English and American Literature at Harvard University in 2009 and<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">\u00a0an A.S. degree from West Valley College\u2019s Park Management Program. In 2018, he<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">\u00a0left SFBBO to pursue a master\u2019s degree at Sonoma State focused on raptor migration phenology at the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, where he<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">\u00a0is a longtime volunteer, and later\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color:rgb(34, 34, 34)\">returned to his beloved South Bay to continue working to improve the relationship between humans and the environment through conservation, restoration, research, and outreach.<\/span><\/em><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SFBBO Science Director Eric Lynch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1230,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":""},"class_list":["post-132","wingbeat","type-wingbeat","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>University Students Explore Tidal Marsh Ecology - 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