Promotions & Events
April 25 (Sun.)
Mark your calendar and join us as we celebrate children during Día del Niño, when all children ages 12 and under will be admitted free. Festivities include live music, a skit by El Teatro Campesino, a craft room to create your personalized take-home souvenir, and much more!
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
Will We Only Save the Cute?
Our new exhibit sea otter pup, Kit, is wielding the power of cuteness to garner support in the struggle to save the southern sea otter. But what about endangered species that aren't quite so cuddly? Writing in HuffingtonPost.com, Executive Director Julie Packard makes the case for other iconic animals that are just as deserving of our attention—like bluefin tuna.
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.
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
Help Seafood Watch Win a "Best of Green Award"
The Seafood Watch iPhone app has been nominated for a Treehugger.com "Best of Green Award," and we'd love your vote. Our app, which makes it easy to choose sustainable seafood at your favorite restaurant or market, is in the running for "Best Eco App." It takes only a second to cast your vote, but you must do so before April 2.
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.
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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"While some chefs are willing to (illegally) serve meals that feature endangered species like whales, chefs like Dan Barber of Blue Hill in New York are changing the world for the good with their cooking and their ideas. Dan was...  "
March 04, 2010
The untold story: How climate change is affecting our oceans. (4.3 mins)
Kit the Cute Sea Otter Pup at Play with Her Companion, Mae
Thu, 11 Mar 2
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