Tidewater Goby Surveying Field Day 1

October 17th, 2025:

Today, my Capstone group and I were afforded the incredible opportunity to survey Tidewater Goby populations in the LA/Ventura tidewater goby Recovery Unit. We surveyed four sites in Los Angeles County, taking water quality, tidewater goby population numbers, submerged aquatic vegetation presence, presence of other species, and microsporidia parasite presence. I am incredibly humbled and grateful for the opportunity to take part in such an important project. Getting to hold and interact with such a crucial and endangered keystone species was an amazing experience. I am very excited to continue surveying and contributing to the knowledge pool on this incredible species.

The above image is a photo I took of several tidewater gobies (Eucyclogobius newberryi) that were caught for documentation purposes at one of the sites we surveyed today.