Crowdfund UC Davis thanks all of the donors who gave to this important project in October. This campaign has closed, but we are grateful for your support!
Thank you to all of our amazing donors so far! This project has come a long way, but we're down to the last few days and still have a long way to go.
Please share and help us spread the word for our last two days! Today, we wanted to share some history about one of the many research projects that benefit from seawater systems at the lab, the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program:
Once abundant along the Southern California coast, white abalone were loved - nearly to death - for their tasty steaks and iridescent shells, and overfishing pushed the species to the brink of extinction in the 1970s. With the few remaining wild white abalone too far apart to reproduce successfully, experts determined that captive breeding and outplanting were the best ways to save the species. After early breeding efforts were hampered by disease, the program headquarters moved to UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in 2011. In 2019, the first group of captive-raised white abalone were placed into the ocean, marking a major milestone in the recovery of this species. But there's still a long way to go, and with more white abalone living at the Bodega Marine Laboratory than in the wild, our seawater systems support the future of this California treasure.
Please consider making a gift to the Sea Us Succeed project, which will help us replace a pump in the seawater system that supplies this, and other crucial research projects, with abundant, filtered seawater.
Image: juvenile white abalone by Joe Proudman/UC Davis
Thank you to everyone who has donated, we’re excited to see this off to such a great start! Please continue to share this project with your networks and remember that little by little, a little becomes a lot. We’re so grateful and appreciative of every gift.
-The students, staff, and faculty of the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory
Small but critical to ocean ecosystems, many plankton add up to a big food source for ocean organisms. We would love to give you a shout out on a social media post.
One humble sea star may not seem like a big deal, but populations of sea stars are critical to functioning ocean and intertidal ecosystems. We would love to send you a personal thank you note with a frameable picture of BML.
You’re keeping this campaign afloat and we would like to recognize your generosity with a shout out in our newsletter.
You’re really kelping us reach our goal! California’s kelp forests are home to many ocean organisms. We would love to thank you by welcoming you into our home to join an exclusive educational event usually only open to our internal affiliates. You get to choose which event interests you the most.
You’re really making a big splash in this fundraising campaign. We would love to recognize your gift with a commemorative tile in the Wave of Recognition at the Bodega Marine Laboratory's entrance.
That’s what people will say in disbelief when they see your off-the-charts gift. We would love to offer you a private tour of lab when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted and have you take a “shelfie” with one of our abalone.