Cal Maritime Ocean Initiative

World Maritime Day and we are representing!

CMOI support gear! We're not fundraising! These are available at manufacturer's cost (+ tax and shipping). I still want to get the word out and these items have been requested by many -- so here they are! Not a penny above cost, we get nothing but the satisfaction of seeing you looking good. Get 'em before we change the name (Cal Poly green and gold merch is available in the store). https://www.bonfire.com/store/cmoi-store/

Looking forward to seeing this. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691263465/free-gifts

Oceanic Humanities is…

We know ocean! What worlds there are in a tuft of kelp — or eelgrass. CMOI director Dr. Colin Dewey investigates the small wonders along one of our favorite locations.

Tide pools and poems.

Distro Highlight✨
NATIONAL BESTSELLER: Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian and from

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness of all the life around us. Fungal species, we learn, commonly encompass more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, a mystery that scientists once dubbed “the eel question.” Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized—and they have lessons for us all.

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