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institutions surrounding this remark- 

 able stretch of coastline continue to 

 draw new scientists and programs. 



The scientific involvement with Mon- 

 terey Bay changed dramatically in 

 the early 1 980s when computer pioneer 

 David Packard set out .o fulfill a 

 dream. In 1984 the Monterey Bay 

 Aquarium opened and for the first 

 time residents of the bay communities 

 as well as visitors from around the 

 world could see first hand what made 

 the bay so exciting to marine scien- 

 tists. School children numbering 

 600,000 and 18 million total visitors 

 have had the opportunity to get a 

 glimpse of the divenity of life beneath 

 the waves. 



Packard's vision did not end with 

 the aquarium; with an extremely suc- 

 cessful public education program in 

 place, he returned to his lifelong 

 interests in technology and invention 

 and started planning the Monterey 

 Bay Aquarium Research Institute 

 (MBARI). Established in 1987. 

 M BARI has taken Packard's successes 

 in the electronics and engineering 

 fields, modified them for salt water, 

 and put them into the bay. 



'Impressive Croup' of Researchers 



With the new leadership of Director 

 Peter Brewer and an endowed multi- 

 million dollar budget, MBARI has 

 attracted an impressive group of scien- 

 tists and engineers who are applying 

 space-age technology to marine sci- 

 ences. The development of ROVs 

 with state-of-the-art video cameras 

 has enabled not only MBARI scien- 

 tists but also colleagues from neigh- 

 boring institutions and aquarium 

 visitors to observe the diverse inhab- 

 itants of the bay and canyon in their 

 natural environment. 



This is in contrast to the typical 



disturbed and damaged state of most 

 organisms retrieved from deep-water 

 samplmg nets and trawls. 



MBARI has become one of the 



world's leading centers for developing 

 instrumentation and technology to 

 probe, sample, and study the ocean 

 waters and the seafioor. MBARland 

 U.S. Geological Survey scientists 

 V/orking on a joint project have recent- 

 ly discovered deep, fresh-water cold 

 seeps on the floor of the bay that are 

 surrounded by colonies of organisms 

 supported by chemosynthesis in con- 

 trast to the photosynthesis-based life 

 which characterizes the rest of the 

 ocean. 



Congressman Sam Farr (D-Cali- 

 fornia), a lifelong resident of the 

 Monterey Peninsula, and former Con- 



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