For this summer, we’ve pulled together a few of our favorites—reads, guides, coastal trails and summer volunteering opportunities.
Tag: Marine Mammal Center
Latest Stories
The Backstory on Pacifica’s Whale Bonanza
Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline have been watching marine mammals roll in for the Bay Area seafood buffet.
Fall Issue 2024
Stewardship and Volunteer Opportunities: Coastal Edition, Fall 2024
Some ways to show love to our coastlines and their wild inhabitants.
Climate Change, Wildlife
In Tough Year for Seals and Sea Lions, Rescue Center Works Overtime
In a normal year, The Marine Mammal Center rescues around 600 animals. It’s only August, and they’re way, way past that number.
Wildlife
Bay Area Seal Researchers Travel the Pacific to Save a Species
Marin’s Marine Mammal Center is spreading its reach across the Pacific, and this summer opened a $3.2 million seal hospital in Hawaii that is the only facility in the world dedicated to treating and protecting the Hawaiian monk seal.
Stewardship, The Bay, Wildlife
Artists cast a net for safer oceans
A new art installation at the Marine Mammal Center puts the focus on ghost nets — lost fishing gear that wreaks havoc in the ocean — and on what we can all do to make our oceans healthier.
Wildlife
In unpoliced oceans, marine mammal shootings go unsolved
The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito has treated six gunshot victims so far this year, including Whirlybird, a sea lion. Which raises the disturbing question. Who is shooting marine mammals and why?
Kids and Nature
Cousteau: Youth the answer to imperiled oceans
Jean-Michel Cousteau visits Marin’s Marine Mammal Center to deliver hope to visiting schoolchildren: “Educating youth is the best investment we can make.”
Art and Design, Pollution, The Ocean
“Washed Ashore” Exhibit Turns Ocean Plastic into Monumental Sculptures
The 16 giant plastic sea creature sculptures on display at the Marine Mammal Center arose from artist Angela Pozzi’s desire to find solace in the ocean: “I went to the ocean to look for healing, but I found that the ocean needed healing before it could heal me.” Her new exhibit, Washed Ashore, is on display through October 15, 2011.
The Bay
High Time For Harbor Seal Pupping
Unlike sea lions and elephant seals, harbor seals shun attention. A harbor seal may flee at the slightest disturbance, and mothers have been known to abandon pups when harassed. Late April is peak pupping time, so watch out when you are kayaking on the Bay or walking certain beaches.
