Promotions & Events
March 13 (Sat.)
Photographer Chris Fallows will talk about his experiences with sharks and other wildlife in Africa in this special auditorium presentation. Chris and his wife Monique have been featured in, or facilitated more than 40 international documentaries on the famous breaching sharks of False Bay, South Africa including Air Jaws I and II and Planet Earth. Chris has recently published his first book, Great White: The Majesty of Sharks.
Auditorium programs at 11:30, 1:00, and 3:00
Book signings at 12:00, 1:30, and 3:30
Get an insider's view of the Aquarium. Each 50-minute tour will give you a chance to interact with our staff, discover the hidden life of animals and learn about our ocean research.
Aquarium to Sponsor Blue Ocean Film Festival
The Blue Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit will take place in the Monterey area August 25-29, 2010, with the Aquarium as presenting sponsor. The event, announced at the Aquarium by famed explorer Fabien Cousteau, will include 50-plus award-winning ocean films, as well as art exhibits and speakers.
Join us for our ninth Cooking for Solutions celebration! The culinary event of the year takes place May 21-22. It's an elegant way to discover how your food choices protect the health of the soild, water and ocean life. Tickets are now on sale.
Exhibit Updates
In early January, a five-week-old sea otter was found stranded in Morro Bay and rescued by staff from the Aquarium’s Sea Otter Research and Conservation (SORAC) program and the California Department of Fish and Game. On February 18, the otter, named Kit after a fictional character in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus, became the youngest otter ever to go on exhibit at the Aquarium.
Keen-eyed visitors may have noticed some new inhabitants waddling around the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Splash Zone penguin exhibit. Four female African blackfooted penguins—three juveniles and one adult—recently arrived from the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.
Since opening on April 6, The Secret Lives of Seahorses special exhibition has become one of the most popular in the history of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It’s also been a labor of love for the Aquarium’s husbandry staff.
A young female white shark on exhibit since August 26 was tagged and returned to the wild shortly after sunrise November 4. It marks the fifth time that the Aquarium has exhibited a white shark and returned it to the wild. The shark was healthy and feeding at the time of release, and an electronic data tag will track its movements.
Take Action for the Oceans
Calling All Jellyfish Fans
Have you seen a jellyfish, red tide, squid or other unusual marine life recently? If so, a new website, jellywatch.org, wants to know about it. Jellywatch, created with the support of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, features an interactive map and list of recent sightings, helping marine biologists develop a better understanding of the ocean.
Solving Seafood—Sustainably
Executive Director Julie Packard attended the Seafood Choices Alliance Seafood Summit in Paris, a gathering of over 600 business and NGO leaders concerned about the future of seafood. While opinions were diverse, one thing was clear: our oceans are changing. Wild seafood catch is declining and ecosystems are under siege from overfishing, pollution and global climate change. Writing in HuffingtonPost.com, Julie looks to the future of seafood.
Each month we bring you a delicious (and sustainable) seafood recipe created by one of the country's best chefs. This month's recipe is for Halibut with Herbs and Flowers from Jesse Ziff Cool, owner of the Cool Café and other restaurants in the Palo Alto, California, area.
Our updated app uses your phone’s GPS to automatically determine the right seafood guide for your location, and lets you sort seafood by rank. If you've got another kind of mobile device, just log on to mobile.seafoodwatch.org and you'll be automatically directed to our online pocket guides, just in time to order your next seafood meal.
Aquarium News
Deep Sea Video: Feather Stars and Sea Lilies
Watch beautiful, high-definition footage of feather stars and sea lilies captured by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's remotely operated vehicles. These mysterious deep sea creatures were once thought to be extinct.
Target Eliminates Farmed Salmon from All Stores
Target has eliminated all farmed salmon from its stores, citing guidance from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. This is a huge development from a major retailer, and it means that no farmed salmon will be sold as fresh, frozen or shelf items in any of its more than 1,700 popular stores. Most salmon are farmed in open net pens, and waste from these farms is released directly into the oceans.
Our newest special exhibition, Hot Pink Flamingos: Stories of Hope in a Changing Sea, takes wing on March 29, 2010. This compelling exhibit tells the story of climate change through the eyes of tropical wading birds, green sea turtles, the colorful creatures that inhabit coral reefs, hypnotic jellies, playful Magellanic penguins and other ocean animals. You'll also hear stories of hope involving people and communities that are fighting climate change and making a difference.
“The oceans are changing, and there’s no time to lose in reversing the trends we've set in motion in recent decades,” says Julie Packard, executive director of the Aquarium. Visit our new page to find out more about Julie and how she’s helping fulfill our mission of inspiring conservation of the oceans.
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"For some time, great white shark-ologists have speculated over the reason why white sharks head out into an area of the Pacific dubbed the "White Shark Cafe." Despite this name, it was really believed to be more internet-type cafe, than...  "
March 04, 2010
The untold story: How climate change is affecting our oceans. (4.3 mins)
Otter pup at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Thu, 18 Feb 2
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