BayQuest

The BayQuest team has had an amazing year of action and is gearing up for a robust 2026! Check out our new video! youtu.be/fKeCbcdNhy0?... If you'd like to be part of this remarkable journey and support this important effort, please consider making a donation today! bit.ly/3FuPSNa Thank you!

🌊 From the creeks to the currents! Our Watershed Warriors hit the San Francisco Bay for a marine science ecotour, continuing their Sausal Creek documentary projects. Watching these future conservation leaders analyze water quality & study marine life is inspiring. The planet is in great hands! 🎥🐟

Sometimes it’s the tiniest invaders that have the biggest impact on the health of San Francisco Bay! Happy Friday Everybody! (Photo: Microplastics research with Aquarium of the Bay and the amazing science team from San Francisco Estuary Institute) #FieldworkFriday #SanFranciscoBay #Microplastics

🎃 Had such a blast on the Port of Oakland’s Halloween Harbor Tour! 🚢 So fun joining friends and community members to explore our waterfront's history and learn about their Clean Ports Program. Inspired by their mission to achieve zero emissions from port operations! 🌿🐳 #BayQuest #PortOfOakland

🌊 From urban streets to the estuary! Our BayQuest Watershed Warriors hiked Oakland’s Jingletown, tracing Sausal Creek to the bay. These future conservation leaders are producing documentaries to show the community how to protect our waterways. 🎥✨ #Oakland #Conservation #SausalCreek

Listening in to the sounds of the bay! We have just taken delivery of the latest Spotter Sound system from our friends at Sofar Ocean featuring the cutting-edge AOS BOREALIS hydrophone from Applied Ocean Sciences. We are mapping how vessel noise impacts whales & wildlife! Stay tuned! 🌊🐾

Taking to the sea where the wild things are! Happy Friday Mateys! (Photo: Sailing the Brigantine Matthew Turner with Cal Poly Maritime Academy & Call of the Sea) #BayQuest #FieldworkFriday #MatthewTurner #CalPolyMaritime #SanFranciscoBay #WildlifeConservation #TallShips #MarineBiology

Supporting SFEI & Aquarium of the Bay on Mission 2! ⚓ Our 2nd microplastics research trip hit the waves aboard R/V Mike Reigle. Proud to back SFEI’s decades of Bay protection as they track how toxic tire dust and laundry fibers impact our marine food chain. Thanks to the amazing crew & scientists!

Watershed Warriors Deep in the Creek! 🌿 Latitude High teen filmmakers hit Dimond Canyon & Sausal Creek for water testing & restoration for their documentaries. Next Up: Jingletown hike! 🏙️ Sponsors needed to get students on the water! Link in bio. 🌊 #WatershedWarriors #BayQuest #Oakland

In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, we celebrate the enduring resilience, vibrant cultures, and continuing histories of the original stewards of this land, specifically recognizing the Indigenous communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #SFBay #Ohlone #CoastMiwok #Respect

Water, Wildlife & History! BayQuest’s Watershed Warriors from Latitude High hit Dimond Canyon/Sausal Creek this week! 🌿 Students sampled water quality, ran a BioBlitz & honored Chochenyo Ohlone stewardship on. They’re filming two documentaries tying creek health to the SF Bay! 🎬 Go Warriors!

🌊 Fresh off the press! Our latest newsletter just dropped, with activities stretching from the sea to the waterfront and all the way up the watershed! 🔗 Check the link in our bio or head over to www.bayquest.org to subscribe. Join the quest and be part of this amazing adventure today! 🐋🚀

The more we listen in to the sea, the better we can understand the impact of noise pollution on wildlife. Happy Friday Everybody! Here we are demonstrating #SpotterSound hydrophone tech to young sailors aboard the schooner Seaward! 🎧⛵️ #FieldworkFriday #BayQuest #SeaSoundsProject #SanFranciscoBay

🌿 Fern Ravine with the Watershed Warriors! Check out this reel from our hike at Fern Ravine in the upper watershed! Two talented student teams at Latitude High School in Oakland are producing powerful documentaries exploring the Sausal Creek watershed’s connection to the health of SF Bay.

🌅 Today, BayQuest honors the 59th Annual California Native Americans Day. We recognize the unceded homelands of local tribes like the Ramaytush Ohlone, Chochenyo Ohlone, & Coast Miwok. As we work to conserve SF Bay wildlife, we pledge to honor & respect indigenous stewardship of these waters.

Exploring new frontiers in accessible research to study the underwater world of SF Bay! Happy Friday Everybody! (Photo: BayQuest blind researcher, Katie and Emma from the Aquarium of the Bay team using adaptive digital hydrophone recorder to listen for whales) #SeaSoundsProject #BlindInSTEM

🌿Round 2 at Fern Ravine! New Latitude HS filmmakers hit the trail for Watershed Warriors. Thanks FOSC & Francis Mendoza for honoring the land's original stewards: the Huchiun clan of the Chochenyo Ohlone people. Next Up: Water sampling at Dimond Park! 🎥🌊 Click here to learn more! bit.ly/4hhv5fg

Watershed Warriors Project brings Latitude High School students into the field to study Oakland's ecosystem and its connection to the bay! Students test water/plants, explore ancestral Indigenous history, and film docs. Healthy watershed, healthy bay for wildlife! For more info: bit.ly/4hhv5fg

Watershed Warriors hiked Oakland's Fern Ravine redwoods, studied ecology, explored Indigenous history, and worked in the native plant garden! They are filming 2 documentaries on conservation in this exciting semester-long project. LIKE and SHARE to support these student filmmakers! bit.ly/4hhv5fg

🌊 CA Coastal Clean Up Day 2026 was alive and well on the Oakland shoreline! BayQuest was thrilled to join this day of community and stewardship organized by Nurture NATURE and hosted by Port of Oakland. Together, we can all make a lasting difference one shore at a time! #CoastalCleanupDay #Oakland

Filmmaker Natasha Benjamin visited Latitude High to screen her film "Point Molate: A Classroom on the Bay" and share storytelling secrets with our Watershed Warriors students. Thanks for inspiring the next gen! 🐋🎥 #WatershedWarriors #BayQuest #LatitudeHighSchool #SequoiasOfTheSea

Tomorrow's the Day! Grab a bucket & trowel, help us clean up our shoreline and meet hundreds of new friends! 9am-12noon; Middle Harbor Shoreline Park Happy Friday! (Photo: Replacing invasives with sustainable native plants near the Port of Oakland) #FieldworkFriday #BayQuest #ShorelineCleanup

Oakland Proud. Oakland Strong! Celebrate the Coastal Act 50th Anniversary at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park on Saturday, Sep 19, 9AM-12PM! Help clean the beach, plant marshes, and spot wildlife.Wear closed-toe shoes. Supplies, snacks & water provided. #Oakland #CoastalCleanupDay #Volunteer

🚢 Presenting at Mariner Brotherhood’s First Friday was an honor! Great connecting with founder Marc Calloway, Apex Maritime Training, Machinists Institute & Performance Solutions at Port of Oakland. We shared a message of conservation while helping open job pathways in the new green economy! 🌊⚓

🌊 Join us for a day of family fun to celebrate 50 yrs of the CA Coastal Act at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park! 📅 Sat Sep 19, 9am-12pm 📍 2777 Middle Harbor Rd, Oakland 🦆 Birding, planting & cleanup 🍱 Free lunch if you RSVP by 9/11! Grab your buckets and let’s save the bay! #sanfranciscobay #oakland

Whales rely on sound to see. We are giving it a try to see if we can learn something new! Happy Friday Everybody! (Photo: Fine tuning our adaptive hydrophone digital recorder with blind researcher Katie Phan) #SeaSoundsProject #BlindInSTEM #AccessibleScience #SanFranciscoBay #WhaleConservation

🌊 Join us for a day of family fun to celebrate 50 yrs of the CA Coastal Act at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park! 📅 Sat Sep 19, 9am-12pm 📍 2777 Middle Harbor Rd, Oakland 🦆 Birding, planting & cleanup 🍱 Free lunch if you RSVP by 9/11! Grab your buckets and let’s save the bay! #CACoastalCleanUpDay

Always a great day in the field aboard RV Mike Reigle with the Aquarium of the Bay team! (Photo: Monitoring wildlife activities offshore while the Spotter Sound hydrophone listens in below the surface as part of our SeaSounds Project) @aquariumofthebay.bsky.social #wildlifeconservation

🌊 Dive into "Ocean: Fragile Beauty" in Sonoma! Meet artists like BayQuest Acoustics Lead Firuze Gokce, who turns whale songs into art. 🐋🎨 Proceeds benefit @bayquest.sf! 💙 📌 Reception: Wed, Sept 9, 5-6:30 PM at Vintage House. On view Sept 1-25. See ocean conservation in brilliant color!

🌊 Fresh off the press, our latest BayQuest newsletter just dropped! 🌊 So many exciting things happening now and on the horizon! 🚀 Ready to dive in? Subscribe today and take a splash with the BayQuest community! 🐳 Check link in our BIO. #BayQuest #StayUpdated #AdventureAhead #JoinTheQuest

If you want to hear the sounds whales make, you have to go where the whales are! (Photo: Retrieving an offshore Spotter Sound hydrophone buoy with Captain Buddy from the Aquarium of the Bay team) #SeaSoundsProject #BayQuest #AquariumOfTheBay #SofarOcean #SanFranciscoBay #OceanConservation

Celebrating the end of another brilliant day of doing the work we love! We can hardly wait to see what tomorrow brings! #SanFranciscoSunset #SFBay #bayquest #gratitude

SF Bay has a tiny, uninvited guest! 🦈 An invisible army of microplastics is invading from our tires, single-use containers & laundry. 🚗🥤👚 Fight back: drive less, choose reusables & rock natural fibers! 🌱 Conservation begins at home. #BayQuest #SaveTheBay #microplastics #sanfranciscobay

We're pushing the boundaries of accessible marine science to study and protect our precious wildlife on SF Bay! (Photo: Blind researcher Katie Phan using adaptive digital hydrophone system to listen in for whales) #FieldworkFriday #BayQuest #DisabledInSTEM #AccessibleScience #AdaptiveTechnology

🌊 The Watershed Warriors project is LIVE! 🚀 BayQuest, Latitude High School, and Friends of Sausal Creek are teaming up for hands-on conservation in Oakland. Empowering youth to protect the SF Bay! 💧 Want to learn more or support? Check the link in our bio! 🔗 #WatershedWarriors #Oakland #SFBay

Okay, so it's not marine science but singing sea shanties on a brigantine schooner with Cal Poly Maritime Academy cadets is still a pretty good day in the field! Happy Friday everyone!⛵️: @callofthesea #BayQuest #FieldworkFridays #CallOfTheSea #MatthewTurner #TallShip #SFBay #ExperientialLearning

🌊 Small actions, massive impact! 🌿 Sept 19 is CA Coastal Cleanup Day, the perfect chance to stop invasive plants growing out of control. Lacking natural predators, they crowd out wildlife. Join volunteers statewide to pull weeds and clear plastic. Let's help habitats thrive! #CoastalCleanupDay

While we love being out on the water, one of the most rewarding parts of our work is sharing what we discover with new friends right here in our community! 🐋💙 (Photo: Tabling at Call of the Sea's Tall Ship Festival with Allayne, Kiko the wonder dog and some Privateer friends) Happy Friday!

Our quest for the Bay's most invasive species takes us beneath the marina docks to a hidden habitat of marine life. Clinging to the underside of these structures, non-native tunicates and bryozoans are quietly crowding out our local marine ecosystem. #SFBay #MarineConservation #InvasiveSpecies

🚨SF Bay Alert: Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are active. 👀 SPOT IT: Water like spilled paint (green/red), thick scum, or foul odors. 🛑 STAY SAFE:• No swimming or boating in murky water.• Keep dogs away; rinse them immediately if exposed.• Don't eat local fish/shellfish. Report sightings! 🌊🐶

From breaching whales to the microscopic stuff, there's never a shortage of things to discover on San Francisco Bay! (Photo: Providing onboard field support for the science team at San Francisco Estuary Institute during a pioneering microplastics research study) @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social

🌊 SF Bay is a vital stop on the Pacific Flyway. Millions of migrating seabirds rely on our healthy watershed to rest, refuel, and find shelter from harsh storms. Local actions protect these global travelers. Let's keep this critical habitat and it's annual visitors thriving! 🪶 #pacificflyway

Healthy watersheds protect SF Bay by filtering pollution, sustaining wildlife & preventing erosion. We can all do our part to protect this vital ecosystem by picking up pet waste, using native plants, reducing plastic & joining cleanups. Let’s protect the lifeblood of the Bay. 💙 #BayQuest #SFBay

We were so delighted to help celebrate the 30th anniversary with the amazing crew at Friends of Sausal Creek! 💚 30 years of dedication and stewardship of this special watershed is an incredible milestone. A huge Thank You to the entire team for such an incredible legacy!🌿 #BayQuest #SausalCreek

Any time you can get out on a boat and observe wildlife near the Golden Gate is a good time in the field! (Photo: Identifying seabird species with Makenzy from the @aquariumofthebay.bsky.social team. Cr. Justin Summers) #GoldenGateBridge #SanFranciscoBay #WildlifeResearch #MarineScience

🎥 ICYMI: We're proud to share this amazing short video by the talented students at Oakland’s Latitude High School! 🙌💙 Thank you for your powerful work and a phenomenal job. Your passion proves our bay and wildlife are in good hands with these future conservation leaders! 🌍🦅 #BayQuest #Oakland

🗞️ EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! 🌊 Our July newsletter just dropped with exciting news and updates you won't want to miss! We are building something special and would LOVE for you to join us on this exciting wave! Read & subscribe here: bit.ly/3RTtinU Together in community! 🐋🚀

🌊 SF Bay is one of the most invaded estuaries. Invasives like Water Hyacinth, Spartina & Wakame choke native life & destroy habitats. Help stop the spread: 1⃣ Clean, drain & dry watercraft 2⃣ Never release aquarium plants 3⃣ Volunteer with local conservation orgs Let's all protect our Bay! 🌿

🌊 In the SF Bay, 250+ invasive species make up 90% of the biomass in some areas! 🦀 Shellfish like the overbite clam hitchhike in ship ballast water and starve native wildlife. Help stop the spread! Remember to Clean, Drain, Dry all boats, kayaks, & fishing gear before changing spots. 🧼🚣‍♂️

We get to use all kinds of cool gadgets to figure out what's happening in the water beneath the boat! (Photo: Preparing to deploy an EXO2 Sonde CTD that measures salinity, temperature and dissolved oxygen as part of our SeaSounds Project - courtesy of the San Francisco Estuary Institute)

As an organization comprised mostly of working captains and professional mariners, we mourn with the families who lost loved ones in the recent tragedy on San Francisco Bay. We salute the first responders and recreational boaters who assisted in the rescue effort. Stay safe out there!