Two separate projects in the Bay Area are using crushed-up shells in different ways to nurture tiny, growing oysters as well as help young clams survive in a changing ocean ecosystem.
At San Francisco's Presidio, wildlife ecologists are using nesting pods made with ground-up oyster shells, designed to attract and nurture tiny, growing oysters. It's a shoreline project that may eventually help their broader ecosystem.
"We anticipate more oysters coming in, and not just more coming in and settling, but those that settle, survive and grow, and hopefully can reproduce on their own seeding more of the Bay with their planktonic larvae," explains ecologist Jonathan Young. Meanwhile, a short drive north along the Sonoma County coast, researchers from UC Davis are also using ground-up shells, this time from clams. Their goal is to help combat a threat from climate change. It's caused by pollution from fossil fuels that are making seawater more acidic.
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