“The mission of MLML is to provision the marine scientists of the future. This means that undergraduate and graduate students are provided with unparalleled access to faculty advisors and teachers, research facilities, and an incredible local marine environment. Our primary goal is to provide students with the necessary skills and training to succeed in academia, governmental agencies, conservation, and management to serve societal needs involving marine issues.”
Press Coverage
Listen Up! Our grad students are doing some awesome outreach
Brijonnay Madrigal is a student in the Vertebrate Ecology Lab who studies bioacoustics of Risso's Dolphins in the Monterey Bay. To share her love and knowledge of the incredible sounds …MLML Aquaculture Researchers featured in Santa Cruz Sentinel
An article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel discusses how aquaculture has the potential to save the shellfish industry from issues related to ocean acidification. To learn how our MLML researchers …Alison Stimpert gives insight on government shutdown
January 11, 2019 MLML's Dr. Alison Stimpert talks about how the government shut down is affecting scientists in this NPR article. Excerpt: “Alison Stimpert, a marine biologist with California State …Sea Otter Savvy joins MLML as a research affiliate
We are proud to announce that Sea Otter Savvy is now officially a research affiliate of Moss Landing Marine Labs. The Sea Otter Savvy program strives to foster responsible behavior …MLML Students Win National Geographic Competition
Blogging their way to an ROV Moss Landing Marine Lab's very own Miya Pavlock-McAuliffe and Marcel Peliks entered a contest with National Geographic's Open Explorers S.E.E Initiative and they won …MLML’s Dr. Geller and Dr. Starr featured in CNN story of a fish who traveled 5,000 miles
MLML Faculty Dr. John Geller and Dr. Rick Starr featured in this CNN article about a fish sighted in Monterey Bay that is native to Japan, Korea, and China: Scientists …MLML Research Faculty named Subject Editor of Harmful Algae
Dr. Holly Bowers, a Research Faculty member at MLML, is now one of the Subject Editors for the scientific journal Harmful Algae. Holly is currently working on harmful algal blooms in coastal …MLML’s Holly Bowers is Using Exciting New Technology
GenomeWeb recently published an article about Ubiquitome's newest portable qPCR platform. Ubiquitome is commercializing a 16-well real-time PCR instrument that is aimed at personalizing the method and making it more …MLML Storm Tracker
The MLML Storm Tracker page provides real-time hourly rainfall totals (inches) and wind speed (mph). Also, be sure to check out our MLML real-time weather page for current and recent data from …MLML’S Strategic Plan
MLML empowers future marine science leaders by providing them with unparalleled access to education, tools, environment, and a community necessary to understand marine processes and their interactions with social issues. …
Events and Presentations
Detection of climate change: characterising signal and memory-February 14th
Claudie Beaulieu, UC Santa Cruz Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - February 14th, 2019 Hosted by The Chemical Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the public About …Ecosystem response to physical variability in the California Current: from upwelling to fish to predators- February 21st
Jerome Fiechter, UC Santa Cruz Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - February 21st 2019 Hosted by The Physical Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the public Abstract …Unanticipated roles of consumers in mediating the functioning of marine ecosystems-February 28th
Matthew Bracken, UC Irvine Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series -February 28th 2019 Hosted by The Phycology Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the publicTBD-March 7th
Brian Gaylord, UC Davis Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - March 7th, 2019 Hosted by The Pacific Shark Research Center MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the publicEstimating global-scale dispersal and connectivity patterns in mangroves using high-resolution ocean surface currents-March 14th
Tom Van der Stocken, NASA Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - March 14th 2019 Hosted by The Geological Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the publicMercury and microplastics in San Francisco Bay and Lake Erie-March 21st
Katlin Bowman, MLML Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - March 21st, 2019 Hosted by The Fisheries & Conservation Biology Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the publicTBD-March 28th
Cynthia Catton, CA Fish & Wildlife Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - March 28th, 2019 Hosted by The Ichthyology Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the publicCoastal Ecosystems-April 11th
Brent Hughes, Sonoma State Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - April 11th, 2019 Hosted by The Phycology Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the publicUsing virtual reality to share the ocean-April 18th
Erika Woolsey, Stanford/The Hydros Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - April 18th, 2019 Hosted by The Physical Oceanography Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the publicMicroplastics from Indonesia to San Francisco Bay-April 25th
Carolynn Box, 5 Gyres Institute Moss Landing Marine Labs Seminar Series - April 25th, 2019 Hosted by The Vertebrate Ecology Lab MLML Seminar Room, 4pm Open to the public