Promotions & Events
Are you and your Valentine "birds of a feather?" Were you "adrift" until you found each other? Share your love by sending exclusive Monterey Bay Aquarium Valentine's Day e-cards. Choose from 12 different e-cards featuring ocean animals. Valentine's Day is only a few days away, so don't delay! Send one to your special friends and help spread the word about these wondrous animals of the sea. Happy Valentine's Day from the Monterey Bay Aquarium!
February 20-21 (Sat.-Sun.)
Few animals in the Aquarium will stop you in your tracks like a shark arcing gracefully through the water. Sharks are magnificent and awe inspiring—more than 11 million years of evolution have made them one of nature’s premier predators. Delve deeper into the world of sharks and rays during Shark Days. The weekend includes shark feeding programs, behind-the-scenes shark stories from Aquarium experts, and special presentations and activities.
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.
How can you eat more seafood for your health and protect ocean ecosystems? We’ve got the answer. Working with the Environmental Defense Fund and scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health, we’ve created a "Super Green" list of wild and farmed seafood that’s good for people and the oceans.
Exhibit Updates
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.
Just hours after closing the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s popular “Wild About Otters” special exhibition, workers erect temporary walls and a flurry of activity descends. Where visitors once stood, now there’s only dust, piles of debris and a steady stream of Aquarium staff packing boxes and pushing hand trucks. What happens when an exhibit ends? Where do all the animals, plants and props go?
Take Action for the Oceans
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.
When it comes to seafood, your choices make a difference. To help, we update our Seafood Watch recommendations every six months. For January 2010 our changes include three new "Best Choice" recommendations for species raised in the U.S. in closed systems: shrimp, freshwater prawns and freshwater coho salmon.
Learn more about our January 2010 updates.
Mysteries of the Deep
The ocean is familiar, comforting—and mysterious. Recently scientists have discovered everything from carbon-slurping sea stars to an octopus that makes a house from a coconut shell. Writing in HuffingtonPost.com, Executive Director Julie Packard presents seven wonders from the sea. Some are delightful; others boggle the mind. All of them help us realize what a wondrous place the ocean is—and why it’s so important to preserve.
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
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.
Vampire Squid Video
The vampire squid, a "living fossil," has remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. Watch spectacular footage of this deep-ocean animal from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
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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"Google just launched an updated version of Ocean in Google Earth, which includes a showcase highlighting the deep sea research findings of our colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). From underwater observatories to amazing animals, the scientists...  "
November 16, 2009
Twice the size of Texas: Thoughts on the great Pacific garbage patch. (4.1 mins)
River Otters Play Piano Duet
Thu, 03 Dec 2
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