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ST Regional Report 



Monterey Bay, National 

 Center for Marine Science 



Uniqueness of the Bay Area Attracts 18 Marine Science 

 Agencies/ Programs with Budgets Totaling $110 Million 



By Dr. Gary B. Griggs 



Director 



/nstituie of Marine Sciences 



University of California/ Santa Cruz 



One hundred years ago, Stanford 

 Univcrsiiy's Hopkins Marine 

 Station set up shop next to what was 

 to become "Cannery Row." John 

 Steinbeck's classic story partially mem- 

 orialized the attraction between one 

 of the first marine biologists on the 

 bay with the productive and diverse 

 intertidal zone of the Monterey 

 Peninsula. 



Over the last several decades, the 

 marine biologists at Hopkins were 

 joined by the oceanographers at the 

 Naval Postgraduate School in Mon- 

 terey and the marine scientists and 

 students at Moss Landing Marine 

 Laboratories and the University of 

 California/ Santa Cruz. The biological 

 and geological diversity of the bay 

 and the reputations of the marine 



Monl»r»y Bay mtrtn* $cl»ne* faelllll»* 

 Ineludt: (»l S$nla Crui) Inttllul* olMtrint 

 Selonea; Braneti ot Pacltle Marin* Geol- 

 ogy (USaS), Ollad Wildlife Rateua/Raha- 

 bllltatlon Facility, Marina Pollution Slu- 

 dl»$ Latxiralory, and tha NMFS Laboratoiy; 

 (at Moil Landing) Mou Lemdlng Marina 

 Laboralorlat, E/kftom Slougl< National Et- 

 tuartnaRatana, and Marina Pollution Stu- 

 dlat Laboratory (alto at Santa Cruz and 

 Montaray); (at Monlaray) Hopklna Marina 

 Station. Monlaray Bay Aquarium, MBARI, 

 Naval Piatgraduata Seltool, NOAA'a 

 Ocaana Application Brancli, Pacific FIth- 

 arlaa Bnnlronmanlal Group; NRL's Marina 

 Malrology OMalon, FNMOC, NOAAa NWS, 

 NOAA'a National MarlnaSanctuaryOHlea, 

 Marina Pollution Rasourcat Laboratory, 

 ynd Marine Pollution Studlaa Laboratory 

 lao at Santa Cruz and Moat Landing). 



Reprinted from 

 SEA TECHNOLOGY magazlM 



