this program here at uc davis bodegaga marine laborator, we only had abouout 30 total animals in captitivity. our r ft spawning season, w we created about 2020 more. thahat wasn't g to save e the specieies, but the nextxt year, we e created about, ththe year after that, a few thousand, and in this room, , we have about 30,000 white abalone, well over what is left in the wild. we want as many as possible to survive in order to ensure the future of this species. hill: krkristin aquilino is thte lead scientist w who has been charged with trying to bring the endangered whitete abalone back from the brirink of extinction. the e project has s been remaray successfulul, but an i interestg thining to thinknk about is s te knknow that ababalone who o aret free out intnto the oceaean tody are actutually going to experiee a different ocean in their lifetime than perhaps the abalone of 50 or a hundred years ago. and so o part of what krisn is thinknking about is, whatat s the e future hold for those whie abalone in the ocean? and part of that future is ocean acidificatation. ocean acidification is a par