Moss Landing is proud to open its doors to the public for the first time since 2020! On April 22nd this year, our lab will be open from 9:00am - 5:00pm to anyone who wants to visit. Activities will include touch tanks, seminars and speed talks by students and faculty, …

Moss Landing's own Professor of Vertebrate Ecology, Dr. Gitte McDonald was featured recently on both NBC Bay Area and KTVU in her role as team leader for MLML's and New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)'s joint field research on emperor penguins in the Antarctic. Funded in …

Moss Landing celebrated a fantastic year with the first annual Christmas party since the beginning of the pandemic. A festive time was had by all, and as the holidays approach MLML would like to extend an enthusiastic "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays"! See you next year! Photo credits go to …

Two of Moss Landing's own graduate students in the Invertebrate Ecology lab were awarded at the conclusion of the WSN 2022 conference this Sunday for the work they presented over the weekend! Keenan Guillas was awarded the runner-up for best poster for the print of his work: "The bigger they …

MLML is bloody thrilled to contribute to the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History's Halloween 2022 Exhibit "Maritime Mysteries and Monsters". We are bringing the creep and ghoul!

The editors of The MLML Drop-In Blog are pleased to present a new blog post by Jason Gonsalves (MLML Physical Oceanography Lab): "Does science have market value? Understanding the influence of science on the economy", in which Jason delves into the economics of science and perspectives on its value by companies, governments, …

From The Director : It is with heavy hearts that we inform our MLML family that Dr. Kenneth Coale has died today of a sudden aortic tear in his heart. And when we think of Kenneth we think of his kind and generous heart. Kenneth received his B.A. and Ph.D. …

On Wednesday, April 13th from 12 to 1pm, MLML's Dr. Birgitte McDonald will be presenting her talk on "Impacts of Disturbance on Marine Mammals: Physiological and Behavioral Responses to Stressors" as a part of SJSU's University Scholar Series. Dr. McDonald is the leader of our Vertebrate Ecology Lab. You can …

Seven current MLML staffers have received service awards from SJSU for their years of incredible work here at MLML! Some were awarded for 10 years, 20 years, and even 25 years of service helping MLML become and continue to the be the wonderful place it is today! Endless thanks to …

Did you know that we have an on-site oyster hatchery at Moss Landing Marine Labs? In partnership with the Elkhorn Slough Natural Estuarine Research Reserve (ESNERR), researchers from the SJSU/MLML Aquaculture Center have been growing Olympia oysters since 2018 as part of an effort to restore the species in Elkhorn …