Bridges Academy: Ichthyofaunal Utilization of a Man-Made Salt Marsh Creek in Mission Bay, CA - 25 Years After Creation

Location

Virtual Event

Free

Taking place during the University of San Diego's Research Month

Southern California’s wetlands are drastically declining due to human activities with increasing marsh restoration and creation being used to mitigate such losses. This study used minnow traps to resample the ichthyofauna of a created marsh (Crown Point Mitigation Site; CPMS) and an adjacent natural marsh (Kendall Frost) in Mission Bay, California, 26 years following the marsh creation. These data were compared to data collected from 1995-1998, immediately after marsh creation. Fishes trapped included Fundulus parvipinnis, Gillichthys mirabilis, Ctenogobius sagittula, Atherinops affinis, and Mugil cephalus. Join Maria Angst, a USD McNair Scholar, as she shares her results and discusses the comparison of species richness and dominance between the natural relative to the created marsh, the size-structure of F. parvipinnis in the natural marsh versus the created marsh, and the possible reasons for these conclusions.

Bridges Academy is a continuing education program hosted by the University of San Diego Office of Planned Giving. While the lecture series is free to all participants, the Office of Planned Giving encourages the support of the Bridges Endowed Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to undergraduate students. Thank you all so very much for making this possible.