Researchers rush to save San Francisco Bay’s only marine lab before it shuts down
On a recent Monday afternoon, Katharyn Boyer gazed out toward a parking lot from her office on the northern coastline of Tiburon. As the fog swirled over the bay, the biologist and interim executive director of San Francisco State University’s Estuary and Ocean Science Center thought of what the stretch of pavement had the potential to become: an aquatic research and training facility buoyed by a recent $5.8 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She could have held meetings there, or leased out tanks and classrooms as a way to help keep the center’s projects going amid mounting university budget shortfalls.
Instead, the only marine lab on San Francisco Bay, which conducts critical research on the region’s water quality and the impacts of climate change, is set to close due to lack of funding.
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