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New employee orientation at Monterey Bay Aquarium

#Monterey #Nature #Marine

I am feeding some steelhead trout babies
#nature #monterey #marine
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Saying hi to Tino the giant pacific octopus (still young)
A selfie with a giant pacific octopus
A person holding their hand out to the octopus
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Employee perk: being able to see the kelp forest with no people around (before we open!
A photo of the kelp forest exhibit
A photo of a leopard shark swimming past the kelp with many perch and bass
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The northern anchovy ‘yawns’ as it eats because it’s opening its mouth and eating everything
Northern anchovy with open mouth
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I think I’ll keep updating this thread to share the joy I see whenever I am onsite (which is going to be, often, coz I need this)

I learned that the jellies have circular tanks because.. they get stuck in corners

A photo of moon jellies in a circular tank
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Sticking my phone through the holes of a fence. And finding a (I think) Brandt’s cormorant colony

#Birding

A photo of many cormorants sitting together with gulls
#Birding
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Kind of unfair that a random photo out of the railings has birds and otters in it
A photo of the water outside the aquarium. There’s an otter floating upside down and a bird in the foreground on a ledge
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I get to sea the open sea exhibit before we open! A sure way to know we haven’t opened is there are bubbles in the water
A photo of dolphinfish in the open sea exhibit with lots of bubbles
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The Monterey bay aquarium stands on the grounds of a former sardine cannery. Due to overfishing, the sardine population collapsed. When I heard about this I thought of the Silicon Valley office parks 50 miles north, engaged in modern extractive exploitation without ever giving back.

The recovery of the bay, the work of the aquarium and the marine national park status has completely changed the environment

A photo of Monterey bay aquarium that I took
A photo of the Hovden cannery after the collapse
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