Chris Janousek
@janousekwild.bsky.social
Research faculty in coastal #ecology, Oregon State Univ. Film and digital #photography, #botany, #phycology, backpacking, #wilderness enthusiast. Views my own. 🌱🌊🏳️🌈
I can’t complain when this was my office for the day! We are conducting plant surveys for San Francisco Bay’s #WRMP (Wetland Regional Monitoring Program).
September 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I can’t complain when this was my office for the day! We are conducting plant surveys for San Francisco Bay’s #WRMP (Wetland Regional Monitoring Program).
We saw whales off Point Reyes National Seashore this weekend!
September 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We saw whales off Point Reyes National Seashore this weekend!
Tidal swamps have freshwater and brackish-tolerant shrubs and trees, including Sitka Spruce, twinberry, willows, and crab apples in the Pacific Northwest.
August 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tidal swamps have freshwater and brackish-tolerant shrubs and trees, including Sitka Spruce, twinberry, willows, and crab apples in the Pacific Northwest.
This project is a partnership of OSU, Wild Salmon Center, the Institute for Applied Ecology, and local landowners. Yesterday we worked in the Umpqua Estuary with Butler Creek Farm.
August 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This project is a partnership of OSU, Wild Salmon Center, the Institute for Applied Ecology, and local landowners. Yesterday we worked in the Umpqua Estuary with Butler Creek Farm.
We are starting a new project on the Oregon coast to better understand the drivers of tidal swamp distribution - elevation, salinity and groundwater. These data will help inform #restoration of these carbon-rich but now rare #estuary ecosystems dominated by trees and shrubs.
August 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We are starting a new project on the Oregon coast to better understand the drivers of tidal swamp distribution - elevation, salinity and groundwater. These data will help inform #restoration of these carbon-rich but now rare #estuary ecosystems dominated by trees and shrubs.
It is a beautiful day on the central Oregon coast and we had a great low tide this morning! Featured creatures: sea palms, a red alga, and giant green anemones.
August 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It is a beautiful day on the central Oregon coast and we had a great low tide this morning! Featured creatures: sea palms, a red alga, and giant green anemones.
Today I was able to return to field work in Poole Slough, a lovely branch of the Yaquina Estuary in Oregon, after about a decade away. We set up channel and groundwater monitoring stations in tidal marsh and tidal swamp.
August 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Today I was able to return to field work in Poole Slough, a lovely branch of the Yaquina Estuary in Oregon, after about a decade away. We set up channel and groundwater monitoring stations in tidal marsh and tidal swamp.
Fun to find a ton of moon jellies floating into the Coos Estuary last evening on a rising tide.
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Fun to find a ton of moon jellies floating into the Coos Estuary last evening on a rising tide.
I had a lovely field day this week in Suisun Marsh in the San Francisco #Estuary where a lot of marsh plants are still very much in bloom! - Helenium, Grindelia, Triglochin, and Trifolium pictured here
July 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I had a lovely field day this week in Suisun Marsh in the San Francisco #Estuary where a lot of marsh plants are still very much in bloom! - Helenium, Grindelia, Triglochin, and Trifolium pictured here
Eden Landing in South San Francisco Bay used to have a tidal station in the 1970s. I had been wondering where the tidal benchmarks might be. Found one 😂 #wrmp
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Eden Landing in South San Francisco Bay used to have a tidal station in the 1970s. I had been wondering where the tidal benchmarks might be. Found one 😂 #wrmp
That excitement when you find something new in the otherwise pickleweed (Salicornia pacifica) dominated marshes of San Francisco Bay!
July 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
That excitement when you find something new in the otherwise pickleweed (Salicornia pacifica) dominated marshes of San Francisco Bay!
I tripped at my field site yesterday and shattered my quadrat so I now have a new one ready for plant surveys. The simple field gear is often my favorite!
June 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I tripped at my field site yesterday and shattered my quadrat so I now have a new one ready for plant surveys. The simple field gear is often my favorite!
Tidal marsh vegetation surveys for the new Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) in the San Francisco Estuary are well underway! These surveys at 17+ sites across the estuary will occupy much of my working time over the next few months. @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Tidal marsh vegetation surveys for the new Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP) in the San Francisco Estuary are well underway! These surveys at 17+ sites across the estuary will occupy much of my working time over the next few months. @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social
This week we collected the first standard transect vegetation data in SF Bay’s new Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP)! Over the next few months we will survey 17+ sites from South Bay to Suisun Bay.
June 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This week we collected the first standard transect vegetation data in SF Bay’s new Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program (WRMP)! Over the next few months we will survey 17+ sites from South Bay to Suisun Bay.
New spring growth on coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, at left and Dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, at right from the #ucdavis arboretum.
April 29, 2025 at 3:51 AM
New spring growth on coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, at left and Dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, at right from the #ucdavis arboretum.
Some flowers and ferns from a short #bioblitz at Fernandez Ranch, Martinez, Calif yesterday: Colllinsia, Lupinus, ?Dryopteris, Pentagramma.
April 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some flowers and ferns from a short #bioblitz at Fernandez Ranch, Martinez, Calif yesterday: Colllinsia, Lupinus, ?Dryopteris, Pentagramma.
Spring wildflowers at Pt Reyes Natl Seashore: Ceanothus, Iris, Trillium, and Lupinus.
April 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Spring wildflowers at Pt Reyes Natl Seashore: Ceanothus, Iris, Trillium, and Lupinus.
Spending time with charismatic megaflora. Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia) in Death Valley Natl Park.
March 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Spending time with charismatic megaflora. Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia) in Death Valley Natl Park.
Some #kelp salt paper prints for #phycologyfriday
March 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Some #kelp salt paper prints for #phycologyfriday
March 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I’ve been doing some alternative process photography recently to help maintain sanity. Here are 3 prints of an underwater iPhone image of giant kelp while snorkeling off Catalina Island in 2023. Cyanotype at left, salt print on platinum rag paper in middle, salt print on watercolor paper at right.
March 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I’ve been doing some alternative process photography recently to help maintain sanity. Here are 3 prints of an underwater iPhone image of giant kelp while snorkeling off Catalina Island in 2023. Cyanotype at left, salt print on platinum rag paper in middle, salt print on watercolor paper at right.
Salt print of giant #kelp from Southern California for #PhycologyFriday. Salt printing is a 19th century printing technique with salt and silver nitrate.
February 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Salt print of giant #kelp from Southern California for #PhycologyFriday. Salt printing is a 19th century printing technique with salt and silver nitrate.