Monterey Bay Aquarium

💙 Check out Jacqueline Rajerison's newest project! 🎨 Our Scientific Illustration Intern, is bringing the ocean to life one brushstroke at a time. She illustrates a longfin inshore squid for Seafood Watch; an illustration that will appear in emails, assessment trackers, and even news reports. After testing colors in Photoshop, she finished the artwork with a stunning mix of watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and gel pen. A perfect blend of science, art, and ocean conservation. 🌊 👏 #MontereyBayAquarium #ScienceMeetsArt #InternLife #ScientificIllustration

Happy World Fisheries Day—a time to celebrate all the ocean and fish that sustain us! Want to learn more about sustainable seafood? 🐟🦦 Then you otter meet Talley! As the outreach partnership lead at Seafood Watch, she’s responsible for collaborating with restaurants, zoos, and aquariums, in an effort to share the Aquarium’s mission of choosing sustainable seafood. And why are we talking about sustainable seafood inside an Aquarium? Because people and animals depend on this important global food source. Join us for a day in Talley’s life, and follow along as she hangs out in the kitchen of the Aquarium, meets with chefs, like Kerry Heffernan, checks in on the otters, and encourages the practice of sustainable fishing methods. Choosing sustainable seafood protects the ocean and people who rely on it. Learn more about Seafood Watch: https://lnkd.in/g6w_PSx7

Healthy, intact ecosystems support thriving wildlife, clean air, and stable weather—all essential for people and nature to flourish. Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. The proposed National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program threatens California waters along the entire coastline despite widespread opposition from residents, businesses, state leadership, fishermen, and Indigenous groups. Areas along the Gulf of Mexico and nearly the entirety of Alaska’s federal waters are also among the areas the Trump Administration wants to open up for bidding. The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains our long-standing belief that the health, safety, and stability of Californians and the ocean should not be for sale. Offshore drilling puts all of us at risk. Read and share Monterey Bay Aquarium’s statement: https://lnkd.in/gksX68Sp To stay informed on this issue, join our ocean action email list:  https://lnkd.in/gQmp5YDZ

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Join us in shaping what’s next at the Monterey Bay Aquarium! We’re seeking visionary leaders to drive the future of our exhibitions, ignite strategic partnerships, and elevate our planned giving program. Discover these transformative opportunities and more at: https://lnkd.in/gvAjrnKJ #MontereyBayAquarium #Director #Exhibitions #Content #Design #StrategicPartnership #GiftPlanning #JobOpportunities #Hiring #Recruitment

The environmental risks posed by deep-sea mining extend far beyond destruction of seabed habitats. New research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa affirms that plumes of sediment from mining operations pose a real threat to life in the ocean water column – the abundant plankton at the base of food webs that support so many other species, including commercially important fishes like tunas and mahi mahi. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, reaffirm earlier work by researchers including Steven Haddock of MBARI, who have urged the global community to move cautiously in the face of all the uncertainties. Yes, the world needs to meet the growing demand for the technology we depend on. But we need to do so without the damaging extraction of raw minerals from the bottom of the ocean. The good news is that innovative approaches are reducing the need to mine the seafloor, an environmentally risky and economically suspect approach. I’m confident we can find less destructive ways to support these technologies. https://lnkd.in/gA57DGdk #SeabedMining #DeepSeaMining #MarineLife #SedimentPlumes #FoodWebs #fisheries Nature Portfolio The Associated Press Alexa St. John

EN: Brainy, beautiful, and built for surprise! The giant Pacific octopus uses camouflage, jet propulsion, and eight gripping arms to hunt with skill. These seafood connoisseurs need a healthy ocean–and so do we! 🐙 Choosing sustainable seafood protects the ocean and people who depend on it. We’re proud to share stories like this as we advance our commitment to becoming fully bilingual. We’re expanding our English and Spanish interpretation across all exhibits, programs, and digital content—so that more people can connect with and care for the wonder in ocean life! ES: Inteligente, hermoso y capaz de sorprender. El pulpo gigante del Pacífico usa el camuflaje, la propulsión a chorro y ocho brazos para cazar con precisión. Estos expertos en mariscos necesitan un océano saludable, ¡y nosotros también! 🐙 Elegir productos marinos sustentables ayuda a proteger el océano y a las personas que dependen de él. Nos encanta compartir historias como esta mientras avanzamos en nuestro compromiso de transformarnos en completamente bilingües. Estamos ampliando nuestra interpretación en inglés y español en todas las exhibiciones, programas y contenido digital, para que más personas puedan conectar con la maravilla de la vida marina y cuidarla. #BilingualContent #ContenidoBilingüe #giantPacificoctopus #SustainableSeafood #pulpogigantedelPacífico

This week at #COP30 the Ocean is on the agenda. Monterey Bay Aquarium has joined the Belem Ocean Declaration, "only by placing the ocean at the center of climate strategy can we build a resilient, equitable, and sustainable future for all. Let 2025 be remembered as the year the world united land and sea to protect all life on Earth." Consider joining the Virtual Ocean Pavilion https://lnkd.in/gQF8GHnn and let's continue the call for climate action.