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| DATE | TOPIC |
SPEAKER(S) |
| March 2008 | Dispersal Patterns and Social Structure of Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in Central California | Laurie Hall, Masters Candidate, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| February 2008 | The Effects Of The Snail Species Tegula brunnea On The Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, In Central California | Selena McMillan, Marine Ecologist and Masters Degree Candidate, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| January 2008 | The Marine Life of the Santa Barbara Channel with a focus on Blue, Humpback, Gray and Killer Whales and several species of dolphin | Captain Mat Curto of Condor Cruises |
| November 2007 | From Killer Whales To Kelp Forests | Dr. James Estes, National Biological Service, Santa Cruz, CA and University of California, Santa Cruz |
| October 2007 | Video, The Science of Whales | Introduced by Bob Mannix and featuring a segment by Don Croll, Ph.D. |
| September 2007 | Leatherback Sea Turtles: a race for survival | Speaker: George Shillinger, Ph.D. Candidate, Hopkins Marine Station |
| August 2007 | California's Marine Life Protection Act and Marine Protected Areas | Speaker: Jason Vasques, Associate Biologist, California Department of Fish and Game |
| June 2007 | Sea Otters and Safe Seas: What can be done? | Speaker: Steve Shimek, executive director of The Otter Project and the Monterey Coastkeeper |
| May 2007 | Killer Whales: Their behavior and ecology in California waters | Speaker: Nancy Black, Monterey Bay Whale Watch |
| April 2007 | Laggard or Leviathan? The Future of the International Whaling Commission | Speaker: Dr. William C.G. Burns |
| March 2007 | Natural Wonders Of The Davidson Seamount | Speaker: Rachel Saunders, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary |
| Feb. 2007 | Eat Or Be Eaten: How Fish Make A Living In Their Cool, Wet Worlds | Speaker: Dr. Lara Ferry-Graham |
| Jan. 2007 | The North Pacific Right Whale: the world's rarest cetacean? | Speaker: Kim Shelden, Biologist, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA Fisheries, Seattle |
| November 2006 | Algal diversity manipulations: how seaweeds structure the
rocky shore |
Speaker: Dr. Michael Graham, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| October 2006 | Gray Whale Obstacle Course; Jean-Michel Cousteau and Pam
Stacey, producers |
Film introduced by Alan Baldridge |
| September 2006 | The Friendly Gray Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon |
Speaker: Jerry Loomis, ACS/MB President |
| August 2006 | Minke whales - baleen of death | Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Stern |
| July 2006 | Fifth annual ACS barbecue, honoring Harriet Mitteldorf | Contact: Jerry Loomis |
| June 2006 | Wind to Whales: the cycle of productivity leading to food abundance for baleen whales in Monterey Bay | Speaker: Dr. Baldo Marinovic, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| May 2006 | Sea Otters of the Monterey Bay Aquarium | Speaker: Michelle Jeffries, Associate Curator of Mammals, Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| April 2006 | Life Styles of White, Salmon, Mako and Blue Sharks in the North Pacific | Speaker: Kevin Weng, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University |
| March 2006 | The Humpback Whales of Tonga | Speaker: Bryant Austin |
| Feb. 2006 | Professor Ken Norris (1924-1998): scientist/teacher extraordinaire, from desert reptiles to Spinner dolphins in Hawaii and many stops in between | Speaker: Guy W. Oliver, Ph.D., Research Associate, Institute of Marine Sciences, UC Santa Cruz |
| Jan. 2006 | Monterey Abalone Divers from 1898 to 1943 and a Tribute to the Unknown Divers of Historic Cannery Row | Speaker: A. L. "Scrap" Lundy |
| Dec. 2005 | Using DNA to understand the population history of gray whales | Speaker: Liz Alter, Ph.D. Candidate, Hopkins Marine Station |
| October 2005 | California's Marine Life Protection Act -- A Brighter Future
for the Central Coast |
Speaker: Kaitilin Gaffney, Central Coast Program Manager, The Ocean Conservancy |
| September 2005 | Mercury Concentrations in the Pacific Harbor Seal in Central
California |
Speaker: Tiffini Brookens, M.S. Candidate, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| August 2005 | A Crystal Ball for Future Climate Change: is the past prologue? |
Speaker: Franklin Schwing, Acting Director, NOAA/NMFS, Environmental Research Division, Pacific Grove |
| July 2005 | Fourth annual ACS barbecue, honoring Randy Puckett | Contact: Jerry Loomis |
| June 2005 | SETI -- The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence |
Speaker: Milos Radakovich, Science Educator |
| May 2005 | Orcas of New Zealand |
Speaker: Sarah Graham, Monterey Bay Whale Watch |
| April 2005 | Marine Mammals of the Galapagos: Science, Conservation, and
Management |
Speaker: Daniel M. Palacios, NOAA/NMFS/Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory, Pacific Grove, CA |
| March 2005 | Tales from the Sea of Cortez: following in the wake of Ricketts
and Steinbeck |
Speaker: William Gilly, Professor at Hopkins Marine Station |
| February 2005 | Humpback Whales off Central America |
Speaker: Kristin Rasmussen, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Cascadia Research Collective |
| January 2005 | Development of diving in the threatened Australian Sea Lion:
Trials of Adolescence in a Late Bloomer |
Speaker: Shannon Fowler, Ph.D. Candidate, U.C. Santa Cruz |
| Dec. 2004 | Contemporary Bowhead Subsistence Whaling in a Small Alaskan Community | Speaker: Michael Galginaitis, Cultural Anthropologist |
| Oct. 2004 | Antarctica Contrasts: the marine mammals and seabirds of New Zealand, the Sub-Antarctic Islands and the Ross Sea | Speaker: Doug Cheeseman, Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris |
| Sept. 2004 | Tale of Two Seabirds: life on wing and under wave | Speakers: Hannahrose Nevins and Josh Adams |
| August 2004 | Third annual ACS barbecue and celebration of Jud Vandevere's birthday | Contact: Jerry Loomis |
| July 2004 | Wild Dolphins and Whales of Southern California |
Speaker: Captain Dave Anderson, Dolphin Safari, Dana Point, CA |
| June 2004 | Sea Otters and Recreational Activities: Is there evidence
in these interactions of chronic stress in otters and how can this be managed? |
Speaker: Deborah Benham, Animal Behavior and Ecology Research Group, University of Nottingham, England |
| May 2004 | The Ultra-Friendly Gray Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon |
Speaker: Jerry Loomis, ACS/MB President and retired Marine Ranger, Point Lobos State Reserve |
| April 2004 | A Tale of Two Seals: Northern Elephant and Harbor Seals |
Speaker: Suzi Eszterhas, Wildlife and Landscape Photographer |
| March 2004 | Whalefalls: new insights into ecology on the deep sea floor |
Speaker: Robert Vrijenhoek, Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) |
| February 2004 | Western Gray Whales: Overview and Current Concerns for the
Population |
Speaker: Bridget Watts, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| January 2004 | Whale Watching: does pre-trip education add to the enjoyment
of whale watching customers on Monterey Bay? |
Speaker: Hirofumi Sano, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University |
| December 2003 | The Mystery of the Minkes: a video presentation |
A 50-minute video of the role of the vessel "Undersea Explorer" in Minke studies |
| October 2003 | Studying Whales: a genetic perspective |
Speaker: Professor Stephen Palumbi, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University |
| September 2003 | Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: current issues being
discussed in a review of the management plan |
Speaker: Sean Morton, Management Plan Coordinator, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary |
| August 2003 | River dolphins of the Peruvian Amazon |
Speaker: Dr. Guy W. Oliver, Research Associate, Long Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Sciences, UCSC |
| June 2003 | On the Origin of Cetaceans -- Whales are from Venus; dolphins
are from Mars |
Speaker: Milos Radakovich, coastal naturalist & director of Bay Net volunteer program |
| May 2003 | Dwarf Minke Whales in Australia: the role of song in maintaining
acoustic "territories" on the Great Barrier Reef |
Speaker: Jason Gedamke, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| April 2003 | Belugas: management of ancients in a modern world |
Speaker: Ree Brennin, Education Department, Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| March 2003 | Voyage to the Davidson Seamount |
Speaker: Dr. George Matsumoto, Education and Research Specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) |
| February 2003 | Bottlenose Dolphin maternal care: does parenting improve
with experience? |
Speaker: Caryn Owen, Science Director, Friends of the Sea Otter and Part-Time Professor, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills |
| January 2003 | Secret Killers of Monterey Bay: a video on the orcas of the
Monterey area, filmed by Paul and Grace Niska Atkins together with Anne
Marie Hammers and narrated by Edward Norton |
Discussion leaders: Richard Ternullo and Alan Baldridge |
| December 2002 | Leatherback Sea Turtles: powerful swimmers, from Monterey
Bay to Papua New Guinea? |
Speaker: Scott Benson, National Marine Fisheries Service and Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) |
| October 2002 | Sea Cows and Seagrasses: how methods recently developed by
scientists can help us understand present and prehistoric feeding habits
and what they tell us about the environment of those times |
Speaker: Mark Clementz, Earth Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| September 2002 | The Friendly Gray Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon |
Speaker: Jerry Loomis, ACS/MB President and retired Marine Ranger, Point Lobos State Reserve |
| August 2002 | Harbor Seals: the dispersal and feeding habits of recently
weaned pups |
Speaker: Stori Oates, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| July 2002 | First Annual Salmon Barbecue |
Contact: Jerry Loomis |
| June 2002 | British Columbia underwater and above |
Speaker: Dan Gotshall, Marine Biologist and Professional Underwater Photographer |
| May 2002 | Keiko - the journey home |
Speaker: Chuck Davis, Professional Underwater Photographer and Cinematographer |
| April 2002 | The Galapagos: a microcosm of conflicts over evolution |
Speaker: David Epel: Professor of Biological Sciences, Hopkins Marine Station |
| March 2002 | Sea Otter Pup Survival: rehabilitated compared with free-ranging |
Speaker: Krista Hanni, Wildlife Center, University of California, Davis and the Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| February 2002 | California Marine Conservation: a fresh perspective? |
Speaker: Kaitilin Gaffney, Director, The Ocean Conservancy, Santa Cruz Field Office |
| January 2002 | Beluga Whales of Cook Inlet, Alaska: recent research and
conservation issues |
Speaker: Dr. Rod Hobbs, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA |
| November 2001 | Pollution Ecology in the Antarctic |
Speaker: Stacy L. Kim, Adjunct Professor, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| October 2001 | Tracking Blue and Humpback Whales off California and in the
North Pacific |
Speaker: John Calambokidis, Cascadia Research, Olympia, WA |
| September 2001 | Marine mammals off the central California coast: the effects
of upwelling and other oceanographic events on their distribution |
Speaker: Carol Keiper, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and the Oceanic Society |
| August 2001 | Midway Atoll: Spinner Dolphin research and seabird monitoring |
Speaker: Carol Maehr, Docent Administrator, Point Lobos State Reserve |
| July 2001 | The Humpback Whales of Silver Bank, Dominican Republic |
Speaker: Esta Lee Albright, Whale Watch Naturalist |
| June 2001 | Killer Whales of Peninsula Valdez, Patagonia |
Speaker: Tierney Thys, Sea Studios Foundation, Monterey and National Geographic Channel |
| May 2001 | Antarctica, The Falklands and South Georgia Island: An Ocean
Lover's Paradise |
Speaker: Debra Love Shearwater, Shearwater Journeys |
| April 2001 | Whale Sharks: their natural history, biology and conservation |
Speaker: John O'Sullivan, Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| March 2001 | Marine Mammals of the Channel Islands National Park and adjacent
waters |
Speaker: Captain Fred Benko, owner/skipper "The Condor", Santa Barbara |
| February 2001 | Harbor Seals in Monterey Bay: their social structure and
underwater behavior |
Speaker: Teri Nicholson, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| January 2001 | Migration Timing and Mortality in Gray Whales: have there
been changes in recent years? |
Speaker: Kim Shelden, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA/NMFS, Seattle |
| Nov/Dec 2000 | The Development of Diving Abilities in Bottlenose Dolphins
(Tursiops truncatus) |
Speaker: Shawn Noren, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| October 2000 | Northern Fur Seals: dramatic changes over time in their occurrence
in Central California |
Speaker: Robert K. Burton, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| September 2000 | SLEWTHS: Science Learning and Experimenting With the Help
of Sea Lions |
Speaker: Dr. Jenifer Hurley, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| August 2000 | Sea Lions and Gray Whales: reasons for the recent increase
of mortalities along the Central California Coast |
Speaker: Dr. Frances Gulland, Director of Veterinary Science, Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito |
| July 2000 | Under Antarctic Ice |
Speaker: Norbert Wu |
| June 2000 | Not Afraid to Ask: Confessions of a Whalewatch Naturalist |
Speaker: Esta Lee Albright |
| May 2000 | The Impacts of Global Warming on Marine Mammals |
Speaker: Dr. Jim Harvey, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| April 2000 | Marine Mammals and Seabirds: the impact of gillnets in Central
California |
Speaker: Dr. Karin A. Forney, Research Biologist, Protected Resources Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla |
| March 2000 | Baleen whales and other cetaceans of the Monterey region:
observations of a coastal upwelling system spanning an El Nino event |
Speaker: Scott Benson, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| Febuary 2000 | Sea lions and salmon fisheries: Monterey Bay interactions |
Speaker: Michael J. Weise, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| January 2000 | Sea Otters and Environmental Health: what is currently understood
about the complex factors affecting the decline of this species |
Speaker: David Jessup, Senior Wildlife Veterinarian, California Dept. of Fish and Game, Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center, Santa Cruz. |
| Nov/Dec 1999 | The Jelly Web: life in the ocean's midwaters |
Speaker: Bruce Robison, Senior Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
| October 1999 | Gray Whales and Elephant Seals |
Speaker: Frank Balthis, Interpretive Naturalist and Professional Wildlife Photographer |
| September 1999 | Leatherback Turtles of the U.S. Virgin Islands: an Earthwatch
Institute perspective |
Speaker: Marsha McMahan Zelus |
| August 1999 | Harps and Hoods: Ice seals of the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
Speaker: Alan Baldridge, Librarian/Emeritus, Hopkins Marine Station; ACS/MB Board Member |
| July 1999 | Early whaling: the "good" old days in Monterey |
Speaker: Tim Thomas, Director of Public Programs, Maritime Museum of Monterey |
| June 1999 | The Manatee Voice: an Antillean and Florida perspective |
Speaker: Jose Alicea-Pou, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| May 1999 | Journey to Svalbard: marine mammals and other wildlife of
the Arctic Ocean |
Speaker: Roger Luckenbach, Fresno City College |
| April 1999 | Bottlenose Dolphins/Silky Shark interactions at Cocos Island,
Costa Rica |
Speaker: Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez, Institute of Marine Science, UC Santa Cruz |
| March 1999 | They are not saved yet: the Gray whales and the Makah |
Speakers: Steph Dutton and Captain Heidi Tiura |
| February 1999 | Minke Whales of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia |
Speaker: Jason Gedamke, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| January 1999 | Killer Whales in the Monterey Bay Region |
Speakers: Nancy Black, Monterey Bay Whale Watch and Richard Ternullo, Skipper, Sam's Fishing Fleet and Past-President of ACS Monterey Bay |
| Nov/Dec 1998 | Sea Otter Rehabilitation, Research and Conservation |
Speaker: Michelle Staedler, Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| October 1998 | Marine Reserves: Research and Fisheries Management |
Speaker: Mary Yoklavich, Biologist, Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group, NOAA, Pacific Grove |
| September 1998 | Right Whales in the North Pacific |
Speaker: Jim Scarff, Berkeley |
| August 1998 | Blue Whales, Krill and Canyons |
Speaker: Don Croll, Institute of Marine Science, UCSC |
| July 1998 | Return to the Wild: the Completion of a Dolphin "Science
Sabbatical" |
Speaker: Michelle Jeffries, Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| June 1998 | Harbor Seals in Monterey Bay: Their Diving Behavior and Movements |
Tomo Eguchi, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| May 1998 | The Galapagos Islands: an El Niño Perspective |
Bill Lindsay, Monterey Peninsula College |
| Apr 1998 | Elephant Seals of San Simeon |
Milos Radakovich, Coastal Naturalist and BAY NET Coordinator
|
| Mar 1998 | Hawaiian Monk Seals: the Natural History, Biology and Conservation
of an Endangered Phocid |
Josh Adams,
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| Feb 1998 | Adaptation for Life in Noisy Marine Environments: the Effects
of Both Natural and Man-made Sounds on Low Frequency Pinniped Hearing |
Brandon Southall, University
of California at Santa Cruz |
| Jan 1998 | White Whales of Cook Inlet, Alaska |
David Rugh, Rod Hobbs and Scott Hill - National
Marine Mammal Laboratory, NMFS, Seattle |
| Nov/Dec 1997 | Baja California - More Than Just Gray Whales |
Linda Lewis, ACS
National Trips Coordinator |
| October 1997 | In the Path of Giants: Tracking the Gray Whale Migration
by Sea Kayak |
Steph Dutton and Heidi Tiura |
| September 1997 | Foraging Ecology of Sea Otters in Elkhorn Slough |
Jennifer Jolly, University
of California at Santa Cruz |
| August 1997 | Marine Mammals off Central California: an ATOC Perspective |
John Calambokidis, Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia,
WA |
| July 1997 | Animal Social Cognition and Communication, with an Emphasis
on Marine Mammals |
Dr. Ron Schusterman, Long Marine Laboratory, University
of California at Santa Cruz |
| June 1997 | Male Northern Elephant Seals: Mating Success and Paternity |
Michelle Denise Wainstein, University
of California at Santa Cruz |
| May 1997 | Current Research at the Tuna Research and Conservation Center,
Hopkins Marine Station/Monterey Bay Aquarium |
Dr. Barbara Block, Hopkins
Marine Station |
| April 1997 | Hawaiian Humpbacks: An EARTHWATCH
Perspective |
Carol Maehr, ACS Monterey Bay member and Point Lobos Docent
Administrator |
| March 1997 | The Gray Whale Lagoons of Baja California |
Judson Vandevere, Naturalist |
| February 1997 | Harbor Seal Pups: An Assessment of Rehabilitated and Free-Ranging
Pup Success in the Wild |
Michele Lander, Moss
Landing Marine Laboratories and Marine
Mammal Center |
| January 1997 | Bowhead Whales in Alaskan Waters: An Overview of Two Decades
of Research |
David Rugh, National
Marine Mammal Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle |
| Nov/Dec 1996 | Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins in Monterey Bay |
Daniela M. Feinholz, Moss
Landing Marine Lab |
| October 1996 | The World's Whales: Currents in Conservation |
Stan Butler, Executive Director, Whales
Alive |
| September 1996 | Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Research in Progress,
with a Discussion of Future Needs |
Andrew De Vogelaere, Research Coordinator,
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary |
| August 1996 | Changes in Tidepool Animals Observed at Hopkins Marine Station |
Rafe D. Sagarin, University of California at Santa Barbara
and Hopkins Marine
Station |
| July 1996 | Sea Otters of the Pacific Rim: Threats and Conservation Needs,
an Update |
Ellen Faurot-Daniels, Science Director, Friends
of the Sea Otter |
| June 1996 | Marine Mammal Visual and Acoustic Communication |
Thomas R. Kieckhefer,
Pacific Cetacean Group (PCG) |
| May 1996 | MBARI Ocean Acoustic Observatory - Real Time Monitoring System
|
Dr. Khosrow "Lash" Lashkari, Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) |
| April 1996 | Diversity in Feeding and Activity of the California Sea Lion
in Baja California |
Tony Orr, Moss
Landing Marine Laboratories |
| March 1996 | Harbor Seals and Pollutants Along the Pacific Coast | Doreen G. Moser, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories |
| February 1996 | Common Dolphins: The Long and the Short of It |
Libby Osnes-Erie, Moss
Landing Marine Laboratories |
| January 1996 | Recent Gray Whale Studies: Calving in California Waters and
an Update on the Current and Ongoing Census. |
Kim Sheldon and Janice Waite, National Marine Mammal Laboratory,
NOAA, Seattle |
Last updated April 15, 2008.