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Director’s Note

Ocean Action

M O N T E R E Y

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New Open Sea Animals

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MAGAZINE

8 Aquarium Adventures

SUMMER

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A Q U A R I U M

SH RE LINES Black sea nettles are among the celebrated animals you’ll see in the Open Sea galleries.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

– Jacques Yves Cousteau

Director’sNote

Julie Packard Executive Director

This is a busy time at the Aquarium, as we prepare for the summer season and especially the debut of our Open Sea galleries. Our new exhibits will tell a fresh story about the animals of the open ocean. Behind the scenes we are already caring for many of the animals that will be added to the exhibits: tufted puffins and other diving birds, sandbar sharks and young sea turtles. New tunas are growing rapidly in our Animal Research and Care Center that we opened last year with your help. Our four older sea turtles are there too, until the day when they return to the million-gallon Open Sea exhibit. Your support has been critical to this project, and to all our efforts to inspire visitors to care more – and do more – to protect the oceans. I hope to see you at our member and donor events, celebrating the opening of our new galleries in July. In addition to new exhibits, we’re introducing many new summer programs that will make your visits even more memorable. We’ll have more sleepovers; sailing and tour opportu-

nities; and extended hours during Evenings by the Bay each Saturday and Sunday. I hope you’ll join me at our 10th annual Cooking for Solutions celebration in May. We’ll host new events and welcome culinary celebrities including Alton Brown, Robert Irvine, P. Allen Smith and Nathan Lyon. All of these luminaries share our commitment to sustainable seafood. Cooking for Solutions will feature our honored chef, Rick Moonen, and our new culinary partner, Chef Cindy Pawlcyn, who is taking our food service to a new level of excellence while deepening our commitment to serve food that’s delicious – and good for the oceans. You can learn more about Cindy, and our Cooking for Solutions events, on page 10.

I would also like to personally thank everyone who generously gave to our Saving Ocean Animals campaign. Your support will help keep our research teams in the field: studying the connections between the health of coastal waters and the survival of sea otters from California to Alaska; the impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster on Atlantic bluefin tuna; and the migrations of young great white sharks in U.S. and Mexican waters. Your contributions help make this critical research possible and provide valuable support for our free education programs for over 80,000 schoolchildren each year. Thank you for helping us protect ocean animals and inspire people to care as deeply about them as you and I do.

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Taking Action New Steps for Sharks, Sustainable Seafood by Michael Sutton With your help, and that of thousands of people like you, we can make a big difference for sharks. We are a leading supporter of California legislation (AB 376), that would ban the trade of shark fins in the state. This is significant, because the bill — if passed into law — would remove the economic incentives that drive the global shark fin trade and the killing of millions of sharks worldwide. (Outside of Asia, California represents one of the largest markets for shark fins.) Our role in the coalition sponsoring the legislation was an important factor in winning the support of key elected officials and prominent chefs like Martin Yan and Charles Phan — both past honorees at our Cooking for Solutions events. As AB 376 progresses, we’ll call on you to voice your support for sharks. Together, we can win the votes needed to provide another layer of protection for sharks worldwide — just as we did in last year’s successful campaign to pass the Shark Conservation Act, which became federal law earlier this year.

Sometimes it takes a new law to help protect the oceans. Sometimes it’s a matter of people stepping up to do the right thing. We’re making that easier for individuals and businesses by adding some new features to our Seafood Watch iPhone and Android apps. Project FishMap is a new tool that literally puts sustainable seafood “on the map” by highlighting the Best Choices and Good Alternatives you can find at your favorite restaurant or supermarket.

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Pacific bluefin tuna spawn midway between Okinawa and the Philippines and possibly in the Sea of Japan, then migrate over 6,000 nautical miles to the eastern Pacific, eventually returning to their birth waters to spawn.

Nearly 200,000 people have downloaded the updated iPhone app; and more than 1,200 individuals have logged over 2,000 seafood recommendations from nearly 400 cities nationwide. The list of sustainable options is growing every day, and will grow even faster now that we’ve launched an Android version of the Seafood Watch app as well. With your help the Aquarium has become a trusted voice for the oceans — an organization whose opinions carry weight with consumers, businesses and policy-makers in Sacramento and Washington D.C. Whether through new legislation or new tools, we’ll continue to find creative ways to protect the oceans and the ocean animals we love.

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Tunas’ bodies are almost perfectly streamlined to help conserve energy on their long-distance journeys. And tuna can retract their fins, making them super-streamlined.

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Research Update Research on Tuna Comes in All Sizes

Unlike most fishes, tunas are warm-blooded and can heat their bodies to 36° F warmer than the surrounding water. This added warmth helps their muscles work faster and more efficiently.

In collaboration with Stanford University, our Tuna Research and Conservation Center (TRCC) provides a laboratory setting that allows us to conduct studies that would be impossible in the wild. In a lab we can observe how tunas respond to changes in diet and temperature. And using our tuna respirometer, we can even measure their physiological performance — much like sports physiologists do with elite athletes. This analogy is especially appropriate with yellow and bluefin tuna — the super athletes of the oceans. Researchers here are leading the way studying the molecular, biochemical and physiological characteristics of these remarkable fish.

Tunas consume as much as five percent of their body weight daily and must continually swim with their mouths open to force water over their gills, supercharging their blood-rich muscles with oxygen.

Bluefin tuna are some of the largest and fastest fish in the ocean—they’re powerful swimmers, built for endurance and speed. A Pacific bluefin tuna is capable of swimming at speeds of 12 to 18 miles per hour for brief periods.

Using a sophisticated technique in which microscopically-fine glass electrodes are inserted into individual tuna heart muscle cells, a group of visiting scientists from Manchester University is studying the behavior of ion channels and exchangers embedded into the surface of these cells. The movement of ions — sodium and calcium in particular — in and out of a muscle cell is what controls its ability to expand and contract. When contractions and expansions occur in unison (as they do in heart tissue), the heart beats — pumping blood through the rest of the tuna’s body. However, the ion channels themselves can be affected by a vari-

ety of environmental factors. If a heart gets too cold or too warm, for example, the cells lose their ability to control the flow of ions — effectively shutting down the organ. Likewise, the presence of various chemical compounds can affect heart cell function — leading to impaired heart function or even death. By studying the effects of environmental factors on the physiology of individual heart cells, TRCC scientists hope to gain insight into how wild tunas could be affected by changes in their environment. Changes in ocean temperature, for example, might alter migration patterns. And environmental pollutants could affect population size, depending on where and when they are exposed. So whether we are studying the swimming physiology of whole tunas, or the electrophysiology of individual heart cells, our research can help us to understand the biology of these animals around the globe and, ultimately, how we can help them survive in the wild. Your contributions to our Saving Ocean Animals campaign help make this work possible and we’re grateful to those of you who have given generously to the campaign. Looking for our Mysteries of the Deep column? In response to your feedback, we’re pleased to offer an expanded look at MBARI’s latest research on page 14.

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We are making great progress on our new Open Sea galleries and we’re excited to announce they will open on July 1. Topping the list of returning favorites is our ocean sunfish. Now more than five feet long and doing well in its temporary home in our Tuna Research and Conservation Center, our mola will soon return to its million-gallon exhibit home. The ocean sunfish, or Mola mola, is more than a crowd favorite and an iconic exhibit animal. Because of our success in keeping them on exhibit, we’re able to conduct growth studies to learn more about the diet and caloric needs of the largest bony fishes in the ocean. In the

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wild, molas can reach 14 feet in length and tip the scales at an SUV-like 5,000 pounds. Molas on exhibit here can reach a still-massive 1,000 pounds. As with our work with juvenile great white sharks, our staff is involved in a tagging program to learn more about mola habitat preferences and migratory patterns in the wild. To date, we’ve tagged nearly a dozen molas and gathered information that may be crucial to the survival of the species. In California, nearly 30 percent of the catch in a swordfish boat can be molas caught by mistake — rivaling or exceeding the number of swordfish landed by fishing crews. Molas are also threatened by floating trash — a growing problem for many ocean animals and seabirds.

We were one of the first aquariums to successfully exhibit the species, and our research – with animals on exhibit and in the wild – is helping to unwrap the mysteries of the mola. Senior aquarist and resident mola expert Michael Howard says, “There’s no written recipe for this. We’re always learning.” Our ocean sunfish won’t be alone in the million-gallon Open Sea exhibit. Our new Animal Research and Care Center in nearby Marina is holding dozens of animals awaiting their return to the Aquarium. This includes many other favorites: yellowfin and bluefin tuna, bonito, barracuda, pelagic rays, scalloped hammer-

head sharks, and four large green sea turtles. They’ll be joined by an all-new species for us: the beautiful sandbar shark, and by the largest Pacific sardine collection we’ve ever had. Our white shark team will be in the field this summer, tagging more juvenile

sharks, and we hope to add a white shark to this exhibit in the fall. We’ll also open a new diving bird exhibit, with tufted puffins, horned puffins and a pigeon guillemot. And, we’ll feature never before seen deep-sea jellies along with black sea nettles, Pacific sea nettles,

Thank You. Over 1,400 members and donors have already contributed nearly $2 million to our Saving Ocean Animals campaign and we're deeply grateful. Ocean animals need us. If you haven’t already joined this important campaign, please contact us at 800-840-4880. Make your gift today and provide critical support for our field work, education and conservation programs to ensure a future with healthy oceans.

moon jellies, crystal jellies and more. Plan your visit now to see our new Open Sea galleries when they open in July. Please see the attached Member Calendar for early openings and special evening hours just for members.

Our Packards’ Circle donors and campaign donors with gifts of $250 or more will be invited to special receptions for our Open Sea galleries: Packards’ Circle Preview: Friday, July 1, 7 p.m. Campaign Donor Reception: Friday, July 8, 7 p.m.

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Summer’s coming, and for Aquarium members that means more progr glimpse at what you can look forward to this summer season. Please c

Aquarium Adventures Our popular summer programs return, with plenty of dates and times offered so you can experience them at your convenience throughout the season. Advanced registration is required. Visit www.montereybayaquarium.org for program descriptions, dates, times and rates. Or, call toll free 866-963-9645 for information and reservations. Underwater Explorers Ages: 8 to 13 Member Fee: $75; General Public Fee: $95 plus Aquarium admission Come dive with us! In this unique program, kids are introduced to surface SCUBA with Aquarium dive staff in our Great Tide Pool. They'll meet amazing animals while getting a fish-eye view of the wonders of the bay as they are safely guided on surface SCUBA tours. Basic swimming skills required. No SCUBA experience or equipment necessary. Sealife Sails: Day Sail Ages: 8 and older Member Fee: $45; General Public Fee: $55 Let the animals tell the story of Monterey Bay. Along the way you may get to see marine birds, sea lions, seals and sea otters, all 8

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common visitors to the bay. Experience the natural wonders of our beautiful surroundings firsthand as you work alongside Aquarium naturalists aboard the Derek M. Baylis, a 65-foot sailboat designed for ocean research. You may even take a turn at the helm steering the boat! Day sails are offered most Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, June 17 through September 3. Sealife Sails: Evening Sail Ages: 8 and older Member Fee: $45; General Public Fee: $55 Sip and sail with us! Join us for a spectacular sail on the waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Watch for wildlife and enjoy wine and light refreshments as you talk with our naturalist or simply relax with friends. Evening sails are offered most Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, June 17 through September 3. Summer Nights Sleepovers Ages: 5 and older Member Fee: $75; General Public Fee: $95 Spend the night at the Aquarium! You can enjoy our new Open Sea galleries at your leisure and have fun with special activities before settling in for the night in front of your favorite exhibit. A continental breakfast is served in the morning. Sleepovers are offered on July 2, 16, 23 and 30; August 13, 18 and 27; and September 17.

Behind-the-Scenes Tours Whether you’ve just joined the Aquarium or are a Charter Member, a tour is the perfect way to enhance your visit and learn something unexpected about our exhibits and animals. We have two new tours this year – shorter in length and themed for your special enjoyment. Feed the Fish – New! Ages: 6 and older Member Fee: $10; General Public Fee: $12 plus Aquarium Admission Find out what our exhibit fish eat, peek into our food rooms, watch a private feeding at the top of the Kelp Forest and help us feed some fish in this dynamic tour. Offered daily. Shark Tour – New! Ages: 6 and older Member Fee: $10; General Public Fee: $12 plus Aquarium Admission We’ll introduce you to over a dozen species of sharks, skates and rays that call the Aquarium home, plus share the inside story on our great white shark research. You’ll end with a special look at some of our largest sharks from the top of our Monterey Bay Habitats exhibit. Offered daily.

ams – and more fun – for your family and friends to enjoy. Here’s a heck the attached member calendar for more activities and events.

Behind-the-Scenes Tour Ages: 6 and older Member Fee: $10; General Public Fee: $12 plus Aquarium Admission Follow our guides through the “Staff Only” doors and learn what it takes to care for over 10,000 animals, as well as our ongoing research on tunas, sea otters and great white sharks. Offered daily. Family Tour All ages allowed Member Fee: $10; General Public Fee: $12 plus Aquarium Admission Designed with our youngest visitors in mind, this interactive tour takes you behind the scenes with trained naturalists who tell the stories of our most popular animals. Hands-on activities make this a great choice for families with children under 8 years old. Offered daily at 11:30 a.m. Feeding Frenzy Ages: 8 and older Member Fee: $45; General Public Fee: $65 plus Aquarium admission This is a rare opportunity to interact with our animals as an aquarist would. Your morning begins with a private sea otter feeding and training session. Next you’ll go on “morning rounds” to see where food is prepared and learn what it takes to be an

aquarist here at the Aquarium. You’ll even have a chance to feed some of our exhibit animals! Offered most Thursdays and Sundays from 8:15 to 10:15 a.m. Personal Guided Tour Member Fee: $120 for up to six people; $20 for each additional person General Public Fee: $144 for up to six people plus Aquarium Admission; $24 for each additional person This personalized tour caters to your interests and provides the ultimate insider’s view of the Aquarium in our galleries and behind-the-scenes.

Summer Deck Programs & Live Theatrical Presentations Family-friendly performances featuring a dynamic cast will entertain and educate you and your family. New this year is an exciting performance that features fun music, stories, animals, and one-of-a-kind puppets created especially for the Aquarium by Chris Green Ki-

netics. These groundbreaking works of art, made from repurposed and recycled materials, are unlike anything you’ve ever seen before at the Aquarium. We’ll also be offering “Enough Stuff” a crowd favorite that debuted last summer. This short, comedic musical highlights the charismatic animals in our special exhibition, Hot Pink Flamingos. We also have live theatrical presentations at various exhibits throughout the day. You may happen upon a magic show about seahorses, a character from the old cannery or a larger-than-life waiter at the Real-Cost Cafe. All deck programs and theatrical presentations are presented live from June 18 through September 5. Check our map for daily schedules when you arrive.

Evenings by the Bay Spend a leisurely summer evening at the Aquarium when we extend our hours until 8 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday from July 2 through September 4. You’ll enjoy live music, food, and wine tasting while strolling past your favorite exhibits.

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Cooking for Solutions — May 20-22 New for 2011: Expanded Lineup There’s still time to be part of our tenth Cooking for Solutions celebration. For details and tickets, visit www.cookingforsolutions.org or call our Sales Center at 866-963-9645. Cooking for Solutions Gala Friday, May 20 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Member Fee: $120 General Public Fee: $150 Enjoy our 10th grand culinary celebration, with gourmet dishes prepared by celebrity chefs and 70 outstanding restaurants; organic and sustainable wines from 60 premium West Coast wineries; and the return of our popular sushi lounge. NEW: Coastal Living Pavilion Presentations Saturday and Sunday, May 21-22 Member Fee: $60 per presentation General Public Fee: $75 per presentation (includes Aquarium admission) You’ve seen them on television and probably own all of their books. Now you have an opportunity to meet your favorite celebrity personalities and join one (or more) of these fun events. You’ll laugh, while learning about protecting the planet during two days of special presentations and cooking demonstrations from: The Food Network’s Alton Brown and Robert Irvine; P. Allen Smith, host of several nationally syndicated gardening programs; and Nathan Lyon, host of Growing A Greener World on PBS and other national television programs. Sustainable Foods Celebration Saturday and Sunday, May 21-22 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Included with regular Aquarium admission (free for members) Learn about sustainable seafood, organic agriculture and sustainable winemaking at information booths throughout the Aquarium. You can attend cooking demonstrations and sample sustainable seafood, mingle with growers and producers, and graze on local produce and artisan foods at Whole Foods Bay View Market and Kids Zone. Special thanks to our lead sponsors:

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We’re delighted to welcome our new culinary pa and restaurateur Cindy Pawlcyn who, in collabo the Aquarium’s dining experiences. and farmed seafood that adheres to the highest Seafood Watch standards. “I am so pleased with this new partnership,” says Executive Director Julie Packard. “Cindy has an extraordinary reputation as a chef and an advocate for sustainable cuisine. I’m delighted that our guests will be treated to dishes that reflect her culinary vision.” Cindy is equally enthusiastic about the opportunity. “For 25 years, I have loved coming to the Monterey Bay Aquarium with family and friends,” she says. “I am excited Cindy Pawlcyn, award-winning chef and creator of Mustards Grill and other critically-acclaimed “farm-to-table” restaurants in the Bay Area, brings her cooking philosophy to all aspects of our food service, including our cafe and restaurant and private event catering. She emphasizes organic, fresh, local and seasonal ingredients, and wild-caught

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to bring sustainable, locally produced, farm-to-table foods to enhance the culinary experience of the Aquarium audience. And, I look forward to working with farmers, ranchers, fishermen, artisanal cheese and dairy producers, and purveyors from the Monterey Bay region.” A pioneer in the development of Wine Country cuisine, Cindy has earned accolades since she opened the legendary Mustards Grill more than 25 years ago. She is also the chef behind Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen and the West Coast seafood restaurant, Go Fish.

She has been involved in creating more than a dozen Bay Area restaurants, including Fog City Diner, Tra Vigne, Bix, Roti, Betelnut, Buckeye Roadhouse and, in Carmel, the Rio Grill. A two-time nominee for a James Beard Award as Best California Chef, she earned a Beard Award for her Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook, one of her four cookbooks. Our new executive chef, responsible for the day-to-day implementation of Cindy’s vision, is Jeff Rogers — well known as the former executive chef for Quail Lodge Resort & Golf Club in Carmel Valley, and for orchestrating the annual Masters of Food and Wine, an international summit of the world’s best chefs and winemakers, at Carmel Highlands Inn. We look forward to introducing you to Cindy and her team at special member events later this year. In the meantime, please stop by for a delicious and sustainable meal on your next visit.

Cindy’s Menus For chef Cindy Pawlcyn food isn’t just sustenance, it’s full of delicious memories and stories. The menus Cindy has created for the Aquarium’s Cafe and Restaurant read like a storybook of her culinary career, with signature dishes from her wellestablished Napa Valley restaurants to new dishes designed just for us. Cindy’s respect for ingredients and details is apparent with just a glance at the menu: Hand-torn croutons for her signature Caesar salad, carefully sourced seasonal vegetables in her “Really Good Pasta” and daily selections of sustainable fish in her famous fish tostadas that adhere to the highest Seafood Watch standards. But stellar ingredients and great culinary technique aren’t the only important elements of Cindy’s cooking. There’s a story behind almost every dish. Her “Mighty Meatloaf,” spiked with piquant horseradish barbecue sauce and served with creamy garlic mashed potatoes, is comfort food inspired by two moms – Cindy’s own mother, and the mother of Pablo Jacinto, the first chef at Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen. “It’s a combination of our moms, and it’s great!” she laughs. Highly opinionated about clam chowder, Cindy’s recipe is inspired by French fishermen’s stews (think lots of rich, natural clam juices) with New England ingredients. “I don’t thicken it with a roux, I don’t believe in that,” she says firmly. “I use the potatoes in the soup to thicken it, which is very traditional.” On your next visit to the restaurant look for new additions to the menu, including Cindy’s savory Mongolian pork chops featuring a hoisin marinade she learned to make during her travels through northern China, and a vegan burger that she promises will be delectable.

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Don’t miss MBARI’s annual open house on June 25 from noon to 5 p.m. The event features science and technology exhibits, deep-sea videos, robotic submarines, children's activities and more. MBARI staff will be there to share their excitement about the institute's work. Visit www.mbari.org for details. Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)

Android users can now download the free Seafood Watch app on their phones. Check out the “What’s New” feed and Project FishMap, a new feature that allows users to tag ocean-friendly seafood at more than one million restaurants and markets across the United States.

African blackfooted penguin chick Spheniscus demersus

Inside Stories

Check out our Facebook page to follow the adventures of our newest additions to the African blackfooted penguin exhibit in Splash Zone. Hatched on exhibit in January and February, these young ones are destined to serve very important roles as education birds.

Welcome the return of the humpback, fin, minke and blue whales to Monterey Bay throughout summer and fall. Whales can be seen right off of our ocean-view decks, along with dolphins, sea otters, harbor seals, sea lions and numerous seabirds that call the bay home. Summer whale migration

Sustainable seafood options now available for Android users.

Prepare delicious, sustainable seafood at home using recipes on our website. Each month we’ll feature one seafood item with two original recipes – one from one of the country’s best chefs, the other from the Aquarium’s new food editor Kristine Kidd, who was Bon Appétit magazine’s food editor for 20 years.

Our new Project White Shark book gives you insight into our milestone efforts to exhibit a white shark and track wild ones. And the latest Insiders’ Guide to the Aquarium — coming in July — shares our behind-the-scenes stories. Both are available in our Gift & Bookstores.

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Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae

Humpbacks come to Monterey Bay from April to December to feed on schooling fishes and krill. Scientists learn to recognize individual animals by the distinctive markings on their flukes, or tails, which they raise high out of the water as they begin their dive.

It remains a mystery if male humpbacks “sing” in breeding grounds to attract mates or ward off rivals. The complex songs can last up to 20 minutes and be heard for over 15 miles.

Mysteries of the Deep

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housands of feet below the ocean surface there’s no sunlight, no plant life and not a whole lot to eat. Most deep-sea animals eat bits of debris that sink down from sunlit surface waters. This debris is known as “marine snow.” Despite the pretty name, marine snow includes stuff like mucus, copepod feces and the remnants of dead animals and algae. Marine biologists used to think that this slow rain of debris provided a meager but continuous food supply for deepsea animals. However, after 20 years of research, MBARI biologist Ken Smith and his fellow researchers have discovered that the amount of marine snow can vary greatly over time. This can cause big changes in how many and what types of animals are found on the deep seafloor. The amount of marine snow sinking to the seafloor depends in part on what’s happening at the surface. For example, each spring, strong northwest winds along the California coast bring cold, nu-

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trient-rich water up to the surface that fertilizes “blooms” of microscopic algae (diatoms). When these diatoms die, they begin sinking slowly toward the seafloor. On the way down, the diatoms may be eaten, excreted, and caught in the mucus nets of drifting animals. One way or another, the remnants of a diatom bloom may reach the seafloor months after the bloom itself. Over time, the fallen marine snow accumulates to form a soft, gooey mud carpet at the bottom. Sea cucumbers, worms and sea urchins make their living crawling around and slurping up the fallen marine snow. If the amount of marine snow increases or if

the sinking debris contains just the right kind of nutrients, some of these deep-sea animals may grow larger or reproduce more quickly. Smith’s team observed one of those population explosions at a study site 140 miles off the California coast, where “sea pigs” (a type of small sea cucumber) suddenly became 100 times more abundant. Marine biologists still don’t know much about most deep seafloor animals — how long they live or how often they reproduce — but they do know that these animals must adapt to continual changes in their environment, just like the rest of us. Kim Fulton-Bennett is a communications associate for the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Scotoplanes, a genus of deep-sea holothurians (sea cucumbers) are commonly called sea pigs. Above: marine snow, including a sinking mucus net.

BusinessPartnerships, In-kind & Matching Gifts Business Partners Businesses are vital partners in our endeavors. Their contributions help make possible free Aquarium visits for over 80,000 schoolchildren each year, as well as our innovative education programs, new and compelling exhibits and critical conservation research.

Business Leaders $25,000 Service Systems Associates Business Benefactors $10,000 to $24,000 Frank M. Booth, Inc. Fry's Electronics Homer Hayward Family Pebble Beach Company Foundation Business Stewards $5,000 to $9,999 The Dow Chemical Company Estancia Winery Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Granite Construction InterContinental The Clement Monterey MOM's Organic Market D. E. Shaw & Co., LP Vital Choice Seafood Wild Planet Foods, Inc. Business Patrons $2,500 to $4,999 Chambers & Chambers Damasco and Associates Evan-Moor Educational Publishers Finch Montgomery Wright LLP Rudolph and Sletten, Inc. Business Contributors $1,000 to $2,499 AAA AT&T Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Carmel Insurance Agency Casa Munras, A Larkspur Hotel EHDD Architecture Epicurean Group Family in Home Caregiving, Inc. Fidelity Investments First National Bank of Central California

Hudson, Martin, Ferrante & Street Hyatt Regency Monterey Inns by the Sea Monterey Peninsula Inns Odwalla Passionfish Portola Hotel & Spa Premium Packing, Inc. Richard T. Dauphine, MD, Center for the Knee and Shoulder Spottswoode Estate Vineyard and Winery Stocker & Allaire, Inc. System Studies Trust Automation, Inc. Union Bank West Marine Products, Inc.

Noland, Hamerly, Etienne & Hoss Recreational Equipment, Inc. Salas O'Brien Engineers, Inc. Salinas Surgery Center Seafood Supply Company Struve Financial & Insurance Services Tri-County Business Systems Valic William C. Vogelpohl, MD

Business Contributors $500 to $999 AEG Aon Risk Services, Inc. of Central California Bamboo Reef Enterprises Big Creek Lumber Company Dive Club of Silicon Valley Engine Company 1, LLC The Fishwife Restaurant Green Star Produce Marketing, Inc. The D. L. James House at Searock Marine Nutriceutical Corporation Michael's Catering and Wild Thyme Deli & Cafe Monterey Bay Boatworks

Blanchette Press Bon Appétit Management Company Inns of Monterey J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Knox Brewing Korbel Champagne Cellars Robin Lehman Ed Ryder Silkwood Winery Somersault Snack Company Shu Tin Stirlen Storrs Winery and Vineyard tea.zing —the bubble tea truck Trustees of E. Mark Adams and Beth Van Hoesen Wild Horse Winery

In-kind Gifts The following recently gave in-kind services, and we’re grateful for their generous support.

Matching Gifts The following companies and foundations have generously matched gifts made by our members and donors. A&B Foundation Adobe Systems Aetna Foundation AMD Amgen Foundation Amica Companies Foundation Applied Materials AT&T Foundation Bank of America Barclays Global Investors BD BlackRock Boeing Business Wire CA, Inc. Capital Group Companies Charles Schwab Foundation Chevron Humankind Cisco Systems Foundation Citrix Systems, Inc. The Clorox Company Foundation Diageo North America; External Affairs Electronic Arts Outreach Esurance Insurance Service, Inc. ExxonMobil Foundation GANNETT Gap Foundation Genentech General Electric Foundation

Global Impact Goldman, Sachs & Co. Google The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Hewlett-Packard HSBC IBM Illinois Tool Works Foundation The James Irvine Foundation Johnson & Johnson JP Morgan Chase Foundation The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Kaiser Permanente Logitech Inc. MedImmune Microsoft Giving Campaign Monsanto Fund Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation National Semiconductor Corporation Nikon Precision, Inc. Nordson Corporation Norfolk Southern Foundation NVIDIA Oracle Corporation Pacific Gas and Electric The David and Lucile Packard Foundation PepsiCo Foundation Perkins Charitable Foundation Pfizer Foundation The Progressive Insurance Foundation Qualcomm Recreational Equipment, Inc. Charitable Action Campaign Rustic Canyon Management, LLC SAP Sun Microsystems, Inc. US Bancorp Foundation Visa Wrigley Company Foundation

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Family Honors Memory of Carol Michiko Watanabe

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arol Michiko Watanabe loved the oceans and was passionate about education. This is why her family decided to honor her memory with a gift to our Children’s Education Fund. According to her husband, Maynard, the Aquarium played an enormous role in Carol’s life. “When guests would visit and go to the Aquarium, Carol would say to them, ‘I could go every day.’ Carol loved showing our grandson Ryan all of the animals and explained their importance to our Earth. She would play with him at length in the Splash Zone. They were fascinated by the jellies, otters and seahorse exhibit.” In 1985, Carol and Maynard attended an event for San Jose State University at the

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Carol Michiko Watanabe and husband, Maynard. Carol saw the Aquarium “as both the present and the future.” Aquarium, hosted by David Packard. According to Maynard, “That night, just down from the large kelp forest, I proposed to Carol. The beautiful

credits: Jason Bradley (2), Jim Capwell (12 lower right), Kirsten Carlson illustration (12 lower), Ann Caudle illustration (4-5), Mark Conlin/Seapics.com (6 lower left), Alex Farnum (10 center), Richard Herrmann (cover), MBARI ©2005 (14 top and bottom), Debra Naeve (11 top right), Raúl Nava (11 lower right), Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures (13), Charles Seaborn (4), Laurie Smith (10-11 lower), Randy Tunnell (8 center and right, 9 right, 10 top left), Todd Walsh ©2008 MBARI (12 top left), Watanabe family collection (16), Whole Foods LLC (10 lower left), Randy Wilder (5, 6-7 top, 6 lower right, 8 left, 9 left and center, 12 top right, 15). Calendar: Jim Capwell, Nic Coury, Kim Fulton-Bennett ©2008 MBARI, Jennifer Hugo, Tyson Rininger, Steven K. Webster, Randy Wilder.

setting just seemed perfect.” The Children’s Education Fund is especially appropriate to honor Carol because “she saw the Aquarium as the present and the future.” In establishing a family trust Maynard has also included the Aquarium as the recipient of a bequest and has joined our Ocean Legacy Circle in honor of Carol. In doing so he has ensured that Carol’s memory will endure and her love for the oceans will continue. For further information about bequests or other estate planning questions, please contact Mary Mullen at [email protected] or 831-648-4913. If you have named the Aquarium as a beneficiary, please let us know so we may thank you and welcome you to our Jane Steel Ocean Legacy Circle.

Regular hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Holiday & Summer hours: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Questions: Call the Membership office at 831-648-4880 or 800-840-4880 Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific time.

shorelines® is published for members of the Monterey Bay Aquarium; 886 Cannery Row; Monterey, California 939401023 P: 831-648-4800; F: 831-644-7554. ©2011 Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation. “Shorelines”, “Monterey Bay Aquarium” and the kelp logo are registered trademarks owned by the aquarium. All rights reserved.

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