Marine Science

KAZU’s Elena Neale-Sacks spoke with Packard after her announcement that she will be stepping down as executive director.

Cal State Monterey Bay students are on board the boat that carried author John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts, a biologist, to the Sea of Cortez thanks to the Western Flyer Foundation. It deploys the Western Flyer to blend science and art, stir curiosity, and introduce students to ocean science.

In the past decade, the number of juvenile great white sharks in Monterey Bay has soared as ocean temperatures rise due to climate change. And with new predators come changes to the ecosystem.

The Western Flyer is the fishing boat John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts took on their famous expedition in 1940 to the Sea of Cortez. Now, after nearly a decade of restoration, the Western Flyer is back home in Monterey.

Some ocean pollution, like plastic bags, can float on top of the water. Others, like golf balls, sink. So to raise awareness about this problem, a Santa…