{"id":193240,"date":"2026-02-25T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:00:56","slug":"drink-beer-and-learn-about-wild-oysters-on-feb-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193240\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink beer and learn about wild oysters on Feb. 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too many people would make their after-work plans on a Thursday listening to a scientist rattle on about oysters. But why not? These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/03\/21\/an-ancient-mound-of-shells-has-been-mined-in-the-bay-for-100-years-but-the-oysters-future-is-uncertain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bivalves are amazing creatures<\/a> \u2013 turning secretions into valuable pearls, safekeeping the ocean\u2019s health and also being tasty on the half-shell or po\u2019-boy.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 26, the monthly speaker series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanhoptimism.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ocean Hoptimism<\/a> \u2013 motto, \u201cUniting Ocean Enthusiasts Over A Pint\u201d \u2014 will toast these miraculous mollusks at Alameda\u2019s Faction Brewing. (Finger\u2019s crossed they\u2019ll serve oyster stout.) Led by Casey Harper, program director at the local <a href=\"https:\/\/wildoysters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wild Oyster Project<\/a>, the talk will examine the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/01\/25\/the-plight-of-elkhorn-sloughs-olympia-oysters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">native Olympia oysters<\/a> to the San Francisco Bay, probing what their recovery means for the region\u2019s resilience and restoration.<\/p>\n<p>These oysters once existed in the millions here but were decimated by dredging, pollution and shoreline hardening. Now they\u2019re on the upswing, thanks to organizations like the Wild Oyster Project, which is working to build a \u201cswimmable, edible Bay using the power of oysters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the most important work happening in the Bay doesn\u2019t announce itself. It doesn\u2019t leap or sing or demand attention,\u201d write the talk\u2019s organizers. \u201cIt filters. It anchors. It builds habitat slowly, quietly and collectively \u2014 until a whole system begins to breathe easier again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details: Talk takes place 7-8 p.m. Feb. 26 at 2501 Monarch St., Alameda; free, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanhoptimism.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">oceanhoptimism.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not too many people would make their after-work plans on a Thursday listening to a scientist rattle on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[90460,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-193240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-bay-area-events-talks-february-2026-beer-science-oysters-ocean-olympia-san-francisco-bay-return-native","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}