2018 ANNUAL REVIEW

A GLOBAL VOICE FOR THE OCEAN

“Inspirational quoteabout ocean health orsomething else from our fearless leader.”

-Julie Packard

“Our commitment to tackling the big ocean challenges — from climate change, to ocean plastic pollution, to protecting the health of ocean wildlife and ecosystems — is unwavering. And our strategies are demonstrating success.”

- Julie Packard

Table of Contents

Leadership Letters 2

Inspiring Our Visitors 5

Building for the Future 15

Acting for the Ocean 21

Financial Information 39

Endowment & Donor Lists 41

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We welcomed nearly 2 million visitors Our new Juli Plant Grainger Animal with inspiring exhibits and programs. Care Center let us expand on nearly

35 years of exceptional animal care. Our new Bechtel Family Center for 2018 Highlights Ocean Education and Leadership New research began to unravel represents new hope for the future long-standing mysteries about

You helped us achieve of the ocean. the White Shark Café.

these milestones. We brought ocean issues to the We tackled ocean plastic pollution Global Climate Action Summit, and head on through groundbreaking Thank you! committed to reach net-zero carbon research and new policy victories. emissions by 2025.

Our Underwater Explorers scuba Partnering with Red Lobster and program for children celebrated advising top international seafood 40,000 participants and 17 years producers, we advanced global of inspiration. seafood sustainability.

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JULIE PACKARD Executive Director

Change was all around us in 2018, from social unrest to climate disruption. And the ocean was no exception. The clock is ticking to make the right decisions to protect and

restore the ocean. While the needs remain urgent, I m flled with hope for the future. Millions of people draw inspiration from the Aquarium and, increasingly, look to us to advocate for ocean wildlife. In 2018, we stepped up our role as a global player taking on the biggest threats to ocean health: unsustainable fsheries and aquaculture, plastic pollution and climate change.

Together, we re growing our infuence, and making a difference.

I m especially proud of the ways we help young people fnd their voices as ocean advocates. Thanks to your generosity, we ll unleash more of their talents when our new Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership opens this summer.

In 2018, working with California leaders, we put the ocean on the agenda at the Global Climate Action Summit. We drove progress to advance sustainable seafood through new partnerships with some of the world s largest seafood businesses. And we took action to tackle plastic pollution through legislation, public outreach and new research initiatives.

We expanded our facilities to better meet the growing needs of animals in our living exhibits and at the same time support recovery of threatened ocean wildlife. I m pleased to say the new Juli Plant Grainger Animal Care Center is now in full swing.

We re demonstrating solutions that work and making tangible progress during these challenging times. I m so grateful to you for making ours the best aquarium in the world and a recognized leader in ocean conservation, education and policy. I hope you feel proud of all you re helping us accomplish to assure a healthy ocean for future generations. I m deeply grateful. Thank you!

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Education has always been a top priority for the Aquarium. We were founded by individuals who shared a passion for science and

for teaching. We’ve always recognized that we can —through our programs for visiting school groups, teens and teachers —help prepare new generations of science-literate citizens our society so urgently needs.

That was the motivation behind our new Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership. This ambitious project came to fruition because of your support and generosity. With construction now complete, we can begin to deliver on our vision for education programs in our state.

Our dedicated and talented team of educators is preparing to deliver desperately needed programs in

B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S As of March 2019

C H A I R M A N ’ S L E T T E R

STEPHEN C. NEAL Chairman

When the Aquarium opened 35 years ago, David Packard and the founding Board of Trustees decided it was important to provide free admission to children and teachers coming here with their schools — a promise that remains true today, thanks to your generous support.

ecosystem-based science. California leads the nation in science and technology, but ranks near the bottom in public school spending and student performance in science. And only a limited number of California schools offer an environmental curriculum.

On behalf of our board, thank you.

Back row, left to right: Tegan Acton, Caroline Getty, Gideon Yu, Samantha Campbell, Michael Mantell, Connie Martinez, Mark Wan, Meg Caldwell, MRC Greenwood and Chris Scholin. Front row, left to right: Pietro Parravano, Stephen Neal, Julie Packard, Susan Orr, William Landreth. Not pictured: Susan Bell, Peter Bing and Joan Lane.

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Inspiring Our Visitors

It all begins at the Aquarium with our living exhibits.

From the oddly endearing sunfsh to the heartwarming

appeal of a sea otter, marine animals inspire us to care

about them and remind us why it’s so important to

protect their ocean homes.

Strengthening the Heart of Our Animal Care

Our new Juli Plant Grainger Animal Care Center, which opened in November, meets two of our most important

goals: expanding animal health care and providing educational opportunities for aspiring veterinarians.

We now have triple the space of our previous veterinary facility. The center houses a diagnostic laboratory, two animal hospital wards, offce space for veterinary staff, students, volunteers and interns, and improved medical storage and equipment sterilization capacities.

Our new Animal Care Center expands the size and scope

of our previous facility.

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The center allows us to:

• Effciently employ new diagnostic equipment to examine and treat animals.

• Address the specifc needs of rescued wildlife, including sea otters, sea turtles and other animals that are more likely to strand in our region as the ocean continues to warm.

• Effectively quarantine sick birds and other air-breathing animals to prevent the spread of disease.

• Create a learning environment where our aquarists can expand their knowledge of animal health issues.

• Contribute to the feld of conservation medicine by providing formal training opportunities for veterinary students and graduates, especially those from communities underrepresented in the profession today.

Your embrace of this vision means we can now do so much more to care for ocean animals both here at the Aquarium, and in the wild.

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Veterinary Leadership DR. MIKE MURRAY, our Jane Dunaway Director of Veterinary Services, says he s just a science geek at heart. I love med icine, biology and wildlife, he says. I like to know what makes things tick.

Fortunately for our animals, he s the most caring geek you ll ever meet. Dr. Mike, as he s fondly called, is the primary caregiver for more than 550 wet, weird and wonderful species at the Aquarium, and others we rescue from the wild.

I don t worry about the exact number, though, because the most important patient is the one that s right in front of me, he says.

After more than 30 years at the Aquarium, the self pro claimed country fsh doctor now operates out of a new space. The expanded Juli Plant Grainger Animal Care Center,

completed in November, is three times as large as the former facility.

Besides being easier to work in, the center enables Dr. Mike to host aspiring students and veterinary fellows.

It s so important for students to have real world experience, he says. It helped me decide what I wanted to do, and I want to provide the same opportunity to others. We re already talking to local students who may be thinking about vet school.

Dr. Mike humbly acknowledges that we couldn t have built the new center without the support from local communities and donors large and small. They stepped up and made the whole thing a reality. It was heartwarming, he says.

I m especially grateful to our longtime donor, Jane Dunaway. With her compassion for animals, she permanently endowed the Aquarium s director of veterinary services position, Dr. Mike adds. Her generosity will ensure that this critical role is secure for generations to come.

Sea gooseberries Pleurobrachia bachei

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Amazing New Animals

We welcomed several new SOS for African penguins animals — some with fns and a few with feathers — to the Curator of Aviculture Aimee Aquarium in 2018, thanks to Greenebaum worked with our African

the work of our skilled animal care staff. penguins for more than a decade before These new faces help us inspire our seeing one in the wild. In the fall, she members and visitors to protect traveled to South Africa to help rehabil-ocean wildlife. itate sick and injured penguins and feed

rescued, undernourished chicks. Aimee, like others on her team before Penguin playground

her, spent several weeks with the South

African penguins Monty, Poppy and African Foundation for the Conservation species with less food. Climate change

Bixby all hatched in the Aquarium’s of Coastal Birds, the leading conservation may also be warming local waters, forcing

penguin colony in 2018 — Monty and organization working to recover this penguins to swim miles farther to fnd

Poppy in January, Bixby in July. endangered species. Duties included fsh in colder water. The effort exhausts

Visitors could see the chicks on feeding and cleaning up after dozens many penguins — some fatally. They are

exhibit for about a month before we of penguins each day. The reward for vulnerable to other threats, too, such

moved them behind the scenes to gain this messy and diffcult work is the as oil spills and plastic pollution.

weight and learn swimming skills before opportunity to release healthy birds Aimee is pleased that she and her

rejoining the fock in our Splash Zone. back into the wild. team could travel to South Africa to help

Two other hatchlings remain in our The wild African penguin population with rescue and recovery efforts for the

penguin colony: Rey (June 2014) and has fallen by more than 97 percent in the birds’ wild kin, and gain valuable experi-

Amigo (August 2016). Two male hatch- past century. One factor is overfshing, ence in treating sick birds.

lings, Pebble and Tola, were transferred which has left Africa’s only penguin The Aquarium also took part in a

to the colony at Dallas World Aquarium, 2017 “Invest in the Nest” fundraising

and a female, Maq, is now at the campaign with our AZA colleagues.

National Aviary in Pittsburgh. The project aims to solve another major

All of our birds are part of a species challenge to the penguins’ recovery:

survival plan for threatened African a lack of appropriate, safe nesting

penguins. The program, managed areas where they can lay their eggs

by the Association of Zoos and and rear their chicks. The campaign

Aquariums (AZA), maintains raised enough money to place 2,000

the genetic health of nest boxes, which the wild penguins are Breakthroughs in culturing comb jellies

more than 800 African beginning to use, on beaches in South

penguins housed at 50 Thanks to the imagination and perse- Bolinopsis infundibulum and warty Africa and Namibia.

AZA-accredited zoos verance of our jelly team, we’re able to comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi.

and aquariums. consistently exhibit several stunning Comb jellies captivate because

comb jelly species, including the spotted they languidly move through liquid

comb jelly, Leucothea pulchra — one of space while refracting light to dazzling

African penguin the most beautiful and fragile of its kind. effect, generating fashing patterns

Spheniscus demersus Also mesmerizing visitors in our of rainbow light.

Drifters gallery are a steady supply of Our team can reliably produce genera-

sea gooseberries, Pleurobrachia bachei tions of healthy comb jellies, thanks to

and Hormiphora californensis, the improved and streamlined methods to

common Northern comb jelly, culture these challenging ctenophores.

Aviculturists must sometimes carefully assist in the hatching of penguin chicks.

Spotted comb jelly Leucothea pulchra

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New seabirds, new stories We welcomed two new seabirds into our rescued fock: Alika, a young Laysan albatross, and Sula, a red-footed booby.

The two birds join 11-year-old Makana, a Laysan albatross who has become a superstar ambassador for seabirds and other marine life facing grave threats from ocean plastic pollution. Her daily program at the Kelp Forest exhibit helps us share with visitors what’s at stake from this growing crisis.

Alika, just over a year old, joined Makana as only the second Laysan albatross at an accredited zoo or aquarium in the United States. Alika’s name means “protector” or “guardian” in Hawaiian. Like Makana, she was injured as a chick, unable to survive in the wild and in need of a permanent home. Alika is a companion for Makana, and visitors will often see both on behind-the-scenes tours.

Sula, whose age is unknown, was injured by a fshing hook and unable to survive on her own. Her name comes from the scientifc name for the red-footed booby, Sula sula.

Staff at SeaWorld San Diego rescued her and nursed her back to health. But after several release attempts, it was determined that Sula couldn’t be returned to the wild. We offered her a permanent home. Her story is an example of how another ocean pollution problem, forgotten fshing gear, can harm seabirds and other ocean animals.

Our team is now training Sula to become more comfortable around people, and she may eventually take part in public programs and interact with guests.

Senior Aviculturist Nikki Odorisio and Sula

Our rescued seabirds help visitors connect with ocean conservation issues such as plastic pollution and marine debris.

Laysan albatross Phoebastria immutabilis

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Social media lets us expand our mission beyond our walls, engage millions of people and bring theocean into homes around the

world. It’s a powerful and effective way to help people know more, care more and do more on behalf of the ocean.

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Success with Twitter Memes IN 2018, we began interpreting popular meme formats on Twitter and Tumblr and used the subsequent discussion to share marine science information. An American Chopper meme became our most liked/ shared tweet of all time, earning 123,000 likes (120 times our usual) and almost 10,000 new Twitter followers. By joking about the challenge of a conservation focused organization creating content for a platform light on substance, we introduced the Aquarium and our mission to new audiences.

Another tweet playfully pointed out that Apple s squid emoji is biologically inaccurate. It delivered marine science content to a wide digital audience something we re uniquely positioned to do.

Going Global with Social Media Our team creates and shares around

4,000 posts per year across popular platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Periscope.

Engaging younger audiences Instagram is popular among users 18-34 years old, and they’re a very engaged audience. We’re using the platform’s new “Stories” feature to share in-depth background about our work, peeks behind the scenes and stories about conservation, policy and biology.

Connecting through streaming video Live streams on Facebook, Periscope, Instagram and YouTube continue to be one of the most engaging ways to bring our mission into the digital space. Live streams of animals and staff at the Aquarium — as well as our “wild” streams featuring tidepools, king tides, red crabs and other occurrences in Monterey Bay — attract thousands of viewers from around the world.

Inspiring action for the ocean Thousands of our social media followers responded to invitations to take conservation action in a number of ways: opposing a federal effort to expand offshore oil and gas drilling, supporting a California ballot measure to protect natural resources, and urging passage of California’s frst-in-the-nation “Straws On Request” bill.

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Our Underwater Explorers summer program welcomed its 40,000th participant in 2018.

Wonder in the Water

What are the best days of the year for the Aquarium’s dive team? For 17 years it’s been our Days of Discovery — a

program that lets young people with disabilities experience the freedom and wonder of the ocean during a surface scuba experience in our Great Tide Pool.

The frst Days of Discovery took place in 2003. More than 1,200 children have participated so far, and the event now takes place over three days each summer. The program began as a special part of our Underwater Explorers summer program, which in 2018 welcomed its 40,000th participant.

One of those kids stood out. In 2003, Zach Bunnell was too young to take part in Underwater Explorers but vowed to return the following summer. During the intervening year, he was blinded by a

Zach Bunnell and Director of Dive Programs

George Peterson

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brain tumor. But he came back, and enjoyed an epic dive experience — and gave us a lesson in living life to the fullest.

Tragically, Zach died a few months later. To honor his courageous spirit, we named the days set aside for children with special needs the Zach Bunnell Days of Discovery for Kids with Exceptional Challenges.

Since 2011, we’ve partnered with the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System through its Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Program to offer Days of Discovery free of charge to young people with special needs.

Thanks to the support of the entire Aquarium community, both of these inspiring and often life-changing programs continue to touch hearts and minds.

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Lifetime Underwater Explorer

TYLER PHELPS has always loved the ocean. His family took many trips to the Aquar ium, but the one that stands out is his frst “scuba dive” as part of our Underwater Explor ers program. He was eight years old, and that adventure nurtured his dream to become a marine biologist.

It got me hooked on diving, Tyler says. Although I didn t get scuba certifed until later, I never forgot my inspirational experience.

Fast forward 18 years, and Tyler is now working on his master of science degree from San Francisco State University while serving as its assistant diving safety offcer. He s also a graduate researcher in the department of ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues to study the ecology and evolution of fshes living in deeper regions of coral reefs known as the twilight zone

and discovering new species along the way.

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Going Green(er)

Action to protect our ocean planet comes in many forms. We’re now purchasing electricity from solar and wind sources. We’re changing

other business practices to leave a lighter footprint, and inspiring our guests to do the same.

We championed the effort that led Monterey County to become the third independently certifed “Green Destination” in the United States.

At our private evening events, we’ve eliminated most single-use products and created menus featuring sustainable local ingredients and plant-based dishes. By hosting events at the Aquarium, our corporate and confer-ence clients can advance their own sustainability commitments.

We’re fortunate to have a retail and culinary partner, SSA, that embraces our values and spreads them to its clients nationwide. SSA has infuenced national vendors to remove single-use plastic packaging from items sold here and at other partner institutions.

Our culinary team is inspiring local businesses and other zoos and aquariums to shift from single-use plastic water bottles to aluminum containers.

Our produce and seafood vendors switched to reusable plastic totes rather than hard-to-recycle waxed cardboard boxes, eliminating more than 100,000 pounds of waste. For evening events, the vendor who supplies our table linens bundles them in reusable totes instead of wrapping them individually in plastic.

To encourage low-carbon commutes, we provide staff with free bus passes, subsidized vanpools and bike loans, and encourage carpools and ridesharing. In 2018, nearly 40 percent of our staff participated. But, we have much larger ambitions for climate action: we’ve made a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2025.

2018 VOLUNTEERS BY THE NUMBERS

total individual volunteers 1,572 total hours of service 164,736

86 different volunteer duties

134 teens contributed 12,592 hours

dives completed by 113 individuals 2,665 95 age of our oldest volunteer

14 age of our youngest volunteer

Our Vital Volunteers

For the past 35 years, volunteers have connected visitors from around the world to the oceanlife of Monterey Bay and beyond.

They’ve also helped in countless ways behind the scenes. Everything they do is for a single purpose: to advance our mission to inspire conservation of the ocean.

More than 1,500 volunteers are more essential to the Aquarium today than ever. They’re engaging visitors, supporting our animal care team, assisting our educators, mentoring teens and diving into exhibits to clean windows and feed Kelp Forest fshes — sharing their talents in virtually every area of our operations.

Some have been with us since we opened our doors in 1984; others have

joined as part of citizen science projects or while attending college in the region.

This year, we created a new volunteer role: Conservation Associates. These volunteers receive special training in delivering focused, in-depth conservation messages to our visitors — discussing issues like ocean plastic pollution, sustainable seafood and the impacts of climate change on ocean health.

Our volunteer guides also receive training in helping individuals — whether guests, staff or other volunteers — with cognitive or physical differences. They acquire the skills to meet the needs of guests on the autism spectrum, the deaf and hard of hearing, the visually impaired and those with mobility limitations.

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A Bigger Tent for Ocean Conservation FOR CLAUDIA PINEDA TIBBS, I use my bilingualism environmental advocacy to help communicate the starts with putting one foot in Aquarium s mission and front of the other. But that s messaging, Claudia says. just the beginning. Based on my own passion

Claudia walks her two mile and background, I teach commute to work as the people to eat cooler on the Aquarium s conservation and menu, in ways that don t science planning and opera contribute as much to climate tions manager one way to change. I also use flm and reduce her carbon footprint. video to ensure the message She s also committed to gets out broadly. I want to be reducing or eliminating plastic sure we don t limit our audi in her daily life and promotes ence because of the medium, sustainability on her social or the language. media accounts. For Claudia, sustainability

I live and breathe sustain isn t just professional it s ability as much as I can, every personal. We need to go day, she says. back to simpler ways, she

Claudia s small steps are says. This means bringing translating into big strides for your own bag when you go the Aquarium. She encouraged shopping, reusing containers, our restaurant operations to and ensuring that you re not use more plant rich ingredi adding signifcantly to the ents. And for more than a waste stream. It s about being decade, in her former role mindful when purchasing new as an education specialist, products and using what we Claudia engaged Spanish have. Our grandparents and speakers in conversations parents were on to something. about sustainable practices. (Her parents grew up in El Salvador.)

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Building for the Future

Our Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership will help us deliver the most robust suite of ecosystem-based education and youth development programs of any aquarium in the nation. We hope to nurture a rising generation of stewards who will ensure a healthy future for the ocean — and us all.

Introducing Our Bechtel Education Center

With tremendous gratitude to all of our dedicated supporters, we just opened our Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and

Leadership. The center greatly deepens our commitment to preparing new generations of ocean conservation leaders.

The center expands our fundamental promise to provide California students, teens and teachers with free educational opportunities that foster a greater understanding of our ocean planet and a commitment to protect it. It also enables us to reach more schools in underserved communities and invite their students and teachers to the Aquarium so they can experience participatory science education.

Each year since opening our doors in 1984, we have hosted 80,000 school-children from across California for free school feld trips. About 300 teens a year develop their knowledge and leadership skills as they engage in environmental research, service learning and conser-vation action. More than 1,500 teachers develop their skills in ecosystem-based approaches to science education as they engage in our professional development programs.

The new $42 million center makes it possible to expand these programs, sharing the wonders of the ocean with schoolchildren and teachers in new and exciting ways. By 2023, we expect that 90 percent of visiting students will take part in hands-on, inquiry-based classes led by our educators. The center will enable us to host twice as many teens in leadership programs and twice as many teachers in professional development programs — all provided free of charge.

We are especially grateful to the Bechtel family and the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation for their leadership gift to make the new center possible. We also thank Gordon and Betty Moore for their major support of this transformative project.

A native plant rooftop garden is one of many features that make the building itself part of the learning experience.

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A Look Inside Our New Center • Located just a few blocks from the Aquarium on Cannery Row • 26,000 square feet and four stories • Four learning labs with live animal displays • Collaborative learning spaces for teens and teachers • Multipurpose room for large gatherings and student lunches • Rooftop garden and meeting space • Public exhibit space • Designed to meet U.S. Green Building Council s LEED gold standards

for sustainability, including solar panels and passive solar energy, a living roof and water conservation features

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Our teen programs offer supportive and challenging

learning experiences so young people can build their

environmental identities and their confdence.

Empowering the Next Ocean Leaders

Every day, our team of educators strives to have a transformative impact on the young people who take part in our teen programs.

It’s central to our commitment to shape new generations of ocean conservation leaders, and it’s the vision behind our new Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership.

This is especially true of our four in-depth programs for teens. We design supportive and challenging learning experiences to build their environmental identities and their confdence. That’s why our Teen Conservation Leaders program includes opportunities for public speaking, social media sharing and community organizing.

And we’re very proud that they’re already making a difference in the world: as conservation leaders, educators and ocean advocates.

Roberto Flores began his relationship with the Aquarium as a Teen Conservation Leader and participated in Watsonville Area Teens Conserving Habitats. He’s now a full-time teen program coordinator. “I was a shy kid — always the last one to hit the dance foor,” he says. “But after the Aquarium’s program, I became the de facto person to speak in front of other people.”

Felicia Davidson participated in our Teen Conservation Leaders, Young Women in Science and

Watsonville Area Teens Conserving Habitats programs. These experiences made her a valued summer employee at the Aquarium. She says our youth development opportunities were life changing.

“For me it’s about making a connection with people, even for fve minutes,” she says. “That’s what I remember most about my work at the Aquarium. And that’s what keeps pulling me back.”

Yazmin Ochoa found her calling — connecting with international visitors as an Aquarium volunteer — after taking part in Teen Conservation Leaders, Young Women in Science and other programs. In addition to coaching other teens as a summer staff mentor she’s pursuing geography and environmental science degrees at Dartmouth.

“I wasn’t really considering this path before, but working at the Aquarium made me realize it was what I really wanted to do,” she says. “I like the global aspect of things and want to focus on the environment and geography as it affects environmental health.”

There are so many more stories like theirs. We’re excited to be able to have a similar impact on twice as many teens in the years to come.

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Curiosity, Inspired WHEN LUIS DAVID was a sophomore at Monterey High School, an Aquarium repre sentative visited his class to promote our volunteer guide program. Luis became an Aquarium guide at age 16 and the opportunity ended up infuencing his career path.

Now he s a marine science student at California State University, Monterey Bay. He also works at the Aquarium

full time in the summer, part time during the academic year as an assistant instruc tor. He s certifed as a bilingual interpreter, drawing from his native Spanish language and cultural skills from a childhood in Mexico. (His family moved to the United States when Luis

As with many other student volunteers,

Luis credits the Aquarium with helping him realize his potential. I was a bit of

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he says. The biggest value I received from the Aquarium was that I came out of my shell a little. That opened a lot of doors in the workforce, and academically.

Because of his experience at the Aquarium, Luis envisions a career as a conservation communicator or naturalist. And, like many others we ve touched, he hopes to give back one day, helping students receive the same opportunities that he benefted from. That s one reason he s looking forward to the opening of the Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership.

When the center opens, we ll be able to accommodate many more students, Luis says. More students means more opportunities to convey our conservation mission and to develop future leaders. We ll also have more lab space, which is key to hands on learning. Being able to see and touch animals is so important

and it s a unique part of what the Aquarium has to offer.

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A Deeper Dive for Visiting Students Our Bechtel Education Center

lets us offer multiple approaches to visiting school groups, from

observations of intertidal marine life, to digital learning experiences and hands-on activities that fow

from the maker movement.

We welcomed another 80,000 schoolchildren for free programs at the Aquarium in 2018and extended programs for

homeschooled students to once a week throughout the school year.

We have expanded the programs we’ll offer when our Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership opens and welcomes its frst students in 2019. Our new offerings will reach audiences in new ways — meeting the evolving needs of 21st century students and teachers.

One program called Feathered Families for preschool and kindergarten students combines our Soaring with Seabirds exhibit with interactive experiences in our learning labs.

We developed Design for the Ocean, a new program for middle-school students that evolved out of the maker movement. Starting in the summer of 2019, students with an interest in engineering will have access to tech-nology and an Ocean Innovation Lab program so they can design and build physical objects that solve ocean-related problems.

In the coming year, we will also pilot Teen Researchers, an exciting new

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program that will help high school students develop research skills through hands-on scientifc explorations.

Programs will take advantage of a video lab and sophisticated software in the Bechtel Education Center, allowing educators to interact with students using iPads in real time. The 200-gallon live animal aquarium tanks in our new classrooms will incorporate interactive technology that emphasizes collaboration, critical thinking and problem-based learning. Students will also be able to experience life from the perspective of marine wildlife using VR headsets and 360-degree video, and analyze data from a new rooftop weather station.

Our programs provide young people with challenges and opportunities to help them learn who they are and what careers they may want to pursue. They’ll build their conservation identities, allowing them to see themselves both as individuals and as members of a broader community that cares for and acts on behalf of the environment.

We’ll provide students with experiences to help them develop the skills to succeed in a knowledge-driven, innovative world, and contribute to the improvement of their communities.

Professional development programs help teachers

grow more comfortable and competent with science content, processes and

teaching strategies, and with ecosystem-based learning.

Supporting Teachers — Our Most Valued Partners

At the heart of our education strategy is a focus on teachers, who can help defne children’sattitudes about science and

infuence a generation of students over the course of their careers.

We’ve designed professional devel-opment programs so teachers grow more comfortable and competent with science content, processes and teaching strategies — especially as they relate to the ocean, conservation and ecosystem-based learning.

With the opening of our Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership, we’ll take this work to a new level. Over the next fve years, we expect to reach 6,000 teachers and educators. We’ll help them increase their understanding of ocean science and conservation, STEM education and culturally-responsive practices to reach California’s increasingly diverse student population.

One example from 2018 is our ongoing partnership with Pajaro Valley Unifed School District to support its environ-mental literacy campaign. We’ve created a summer teacher institute to help the district train elementary school teachers to lead the way in implementing science learning at their schools. These educa-tors are developing ways to use their local environment as the context for science learning, in collaboration with environmental education feld trip providers in the region. In its frst year, we helped the district prepare 28 teachers on 16 campuses for this leadership role — and we’re looking at creating similar partnerships with other school districts.

Our teacher institutes are also creating a network of educators who can collaborate and share the approaches that work well in their classrooms. Two elementary school teachers who met through the institute, Rebecca Cihak from Rocklin in the Sacramento Valley and Karen Levy from Pacifc Grove on the Monterey Peninsula, have partnered on a multi-year feld project, in which their students collect and compare water quality data from their two school sites. By investigating the links between their watersheds, the students are learning how inland communities are connected to coastal ones.

We look forward to seeing more collaborations like this fourish among teacher institute participants in the future.

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Acting for the Ocean

From the air we breathe to the seafood we eat, our survival depends on a healthy ocean. Through scientifc research, policy advocacy and market strategies, the Aquarium inspires people, from the public to politicians, to take action on some of the biggest threats to ocean health.

Tackling a Whale of an Issue

Ocean plastic pollution is an enormous problem, almost impossible to visualize.

To raise awareness, we built an 82-foot-long blue whale made entirely out of plastic waste. The colorful creature represents the fact that every nine minutes, plastic trash weighing as much as Earth’s largest animal (about 300,000 pounds) makes its way to the ocean.

The plastic blue whale was created by San Francisco Bay Area artists Joel Dean Stockdill and Yustina Salnikova, plus a crew and dozens of volunteers. The artists developed a custom recycling process, manually fabricating panels

out of discarded plastic bottles. We installed the life-sized whale on

San Francisco’s Crissy Field, within sight of the Golden Gate Bridge. During its fve months there, thousands of people took selfes with it, and our social media followers let us know that they loved our creative approach to explaining this planetary problem.

Meow Wolf, a public beneft arts and entertainment group, eventually purchased the whale and installed it on the campus of Santa Fe Community College to continue raising awareness about ocean plastic pollution.

Our plastic blue whale drew public attention to the problem

of ocean plastic pollution.

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P R O J E C T P R O F I L E

Our Whale in Detail • The plastic panels that compose most of the

whale s exterior are made from hand recycled type #2 (HDPE) plastic.

• Local recycling centers donated more than 4,000 pounds of plastic trash.

• The crew sorted the plastic by color, washed it, then cut it into small pieces and melted it in molds that formed individual panels for the body of the whale.

• Each panel is four cookie trays of melted plastic; each took about 30 minutes to bake.

• Each panel weighs about fve pounds, which equals about 37 empty milk jugs or 21 empty laundry detergent bottles.

• The artists used 750 panels and 65 recycled plastic barrels to build the whale s exterior.

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The ocean made an appearance in this letter from California Gov. Jerry Brown, as he signed California’s Straws On Request bill into law.

Changing the Way We Think About Plastic California cuts back on

Let’s face it: plastic is everywhere. ever made has been recovered and We eat and drink from it, make turned into new products. Better waste unnecessary straws clothes from it and buy products management is an important part of

In September, Gov. Jerry Brown signed wrapped in it. Scientists estimate the solution, but it’s a bit like mopping

the state’s “Straws On Request” bill into that around 9 million tons of plastic a fooding bathroom while the faucet is

law, requiring dine-in restaurants to provide makes its way from land to sea every still on full blast. We have to turn down

straws only when customers ask for them. year. That’s like dumping a garbage the tap while we clean up the mess.

This reduces plastic waste throughout truck full of plastic into the ocean every That’s why the Aquarium is encourag-

California while still ensuring access for The average American minute. Even when we dispose of plastic ing people to use less plastic in the frst those who need it.

properly, it can blow out of garbage and place. We’re championing practices and throws away 270 pounds We helped get the bill over the fnish line, recycling cans or off hauling trucks to policies to reduce plastic waste across

endorsing it in Sacramento and inviting of plastic every year, become pollution. Wind, storm drains and the United States, California and in our our supporters to speak up. Nearly 2,000

rivers can then carry it to the ocean, even own backyard, collaborating with diverse Aquarium visitors, members and social creating a stream of waste from areas hundreds of miles inland. partners and working from a foundation media followers urged their state legislators

As that plastic pollution builds up — of science. to support the bill. that can escape into the and breaks up — it’s harming marine wild-

When Gov. Brown approved Straws On life from turtles to seabirds. If we don’t natural environment. Reducing plastic in the Request, he issued a rare signing message make changes, the rate of ocean plastic

focused on the growing global production pollution could double in just six years. Aquarium’s hometown

of plastic and its impacts on ocean health. Manufacturers are ramping up plastic The city of Monterey, among others “One thing is clear,” he stated. “We must

production around the world, but our across California, is leading the way to fnd ways to reduce and eventually eliminate ability to recycle isn’t keeping up. In cut back on unnecessary disposable single-use plastic products.” fact, less than 10 percent of all plastic plastic. Over the past decade it has With momentum on our side, the

limited the use of polystyrene foam, Aquarium is now working with partners plastic shopping bags and most recently across the country to turn back the tide — with the Aquarium’s support — disposable of plastic pollution. plastic utensils, coffee cup lids and takeout containers. This new law, which U.S. aquariums slow the took effect on Earth Day 2019, is cutting waste and helping protect Monterey fow of plastic Bay from plastic pollution.

In 2016, we co-founded the Aquarium Monterey’s policy also eliminates

Conservation Partnership, an alliance of 20 Our aquarium partners are now using plastic straws, with an important leading aquariums across the United States, their leverage with consumers, businesses exemption for those who need them. to raise a collective voice for ocean and and decision-makers to reduce common For some people, a straw is assistive freshwater conservation. sources of plastic pollution where they technology they depend on to eat and

First, partner aquariums eliminated live. Through the Aquarium Conservation drink. That’s why we reached out to single-use plastic straws and shopping Partnership’s “First Step” campaign, more advocates of people with disabilities, bags from their operations, and committed than 160,000 consumers have pledged and worked together to shape an to signifcantly reduce plastic beverage to reduce their plastic use, starting with inclusive straw policy. bottles, too. Collectively, we have removed straws, and over 600 local businesses 5 million plastic straws from the waste have joined aquariums in changing their stream, and are working with our vendors practices. By raising our voices for ocean

The Aquarium’s beverage case is to fnd sustainable alternatives to and freshwater conservation, aquariums are virtually plastic free, instead featuring plastic packaging. building nationwide momentum for change. drinks and snacks in reusable or recyclable, non-plastic containers.

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Right: Assembly-members Eduardo Garcia and Mark Stone accept the Aquarium’s Ocean Champion Award. Below: One of the Aquarium’s new electric vehicle charging stations. Taking Climate Action for the Ocean

Climate change and ocean acidif- Putting the ocean on the global cation are profoundly affecting ocean health and wildlife — and climate change agenda our own survival. Rising sea

We helped put the ocean front and levels and intensifying storm events put

center during an international climate coastal communities at increasing risk.

gathering here in California. Warmer, more acidic waters disrupt

The Global Climate Action Summit in animal life cycles and the broader

San Francisco, co-hosted by Gov. Jerry marine food web.

Brown, brought together investors, Fortunately, the ocean is resilient and

citizens, businesses and civic leaders can recover if we take immediate action.

from around the world to double down The Aquarium is a part of an ambitious

on their commitment to the Paris global climate movement. While the

Agreement, the 2015 international United Nations climate negotiations

climate change treaty. At frst, the were taking place in December, Executive

ocean-climate connection wasn’t on the In 2017, we supported the creation of We Are Still In represents more than Cultivating Director Julie Packard called on summit agenda — a glaring omission, Monterey Bay Community Power (MBCP) 3,500 organizations globally, across

Americans to take action. given that the ocean is the heart of ocean-climate leaders to bring renewable energy to our region public and private sectors, that have

“Major scientifc reports all confrm Earth’s climate system. at a faster pace. Through the state’s declared their support for the Paris

that extreme weather events are getting We work to inspire and cultivate climate Thanks to a push by the Aquarium Community Choice Energy model, MBCP Agreement. The Aquarium was one

worse as a result of man-made carbon leaders in California and beyond. In team, along with our state and nonproft provides locally controlled, carbon-free of the frst cultural institutions to sign

pollution,” Julie said in a video posted to 2018, we organized high-profle events partners, summit leaders added ocean electricity to residents and businesses on, joining the international community

social media. “But acting together with to honor today’s climate champions and health as a major theme. We also helped in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz in reducing our emissions for a

courage, we can protect our beautiful, encourage others to step up. lead the development of a new “Ocean counties, and to the cities of San Luis sustainable, low-carbon future.

blue living planet.” At our annual reception at Ocean Day Climate Action Agenda” unveiled at the Obispo and Morro Bay.

California in Sacramento, we presented summit, a roadmap for ocean-centered Last March, the Aquarium’s electricity

our 2018 California Ocean Champion climate action. went carbon-free when MBCP began

Awards to Assemblymembers Eduardo Julie delivered opening remarks at powering businesses in the region. Then

Garcia (D-Coachella) and Mark Stone the summit’s ocean plenary, followed we aimed even higher and championed

(D-Monterey). Garcia authored successful We made a public by former Secretary of State John creation of a new premium service:

legislation to extend the state’s cap-and-Kerry, who praised the Aquarium’s MB Prime, which sources electricity

trade program, keeping California commitment to leadership on ocean conservation. In a exclusively from wind and solar sources

on track to meet its ambitious 2030 separate event during the summit, Julie — avoiding the environmental impacts achieve net-zero

climate goals. We honored Stone for and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff urged of hydroelectric energy. We became the

his sustained commitment to protect high-profle business and civic leaders to frst commercial customer to enroll. carbon emissions

Monterey Bay and act for ocean lead the way toward a clean-energy future. In September, we made a public

conservation throughout the state. and transition 100 commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and transition 100 percent percent of our vehicle of our vehicle feet to renewable power by 2025. Chief Conservation Offcer feet to renewable

Powering up for clean energy The most important way to combat

Margaret Spring announced the com-climate change, and reduce its harmful power by 2025. mitment, along with our other emission

Executive Director Julie Packard effects on the ocean, is to reduce the reduction activities, during a forum

welcomed delegates to the ocean emission of carbon dioxide. That’s why at the Global Climate Action Summit, plenary at the Global Climate we’re working to cut carbon, starting

Action Summit. hosted by the We Are Still In coalition. right here at home.

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Defending Critical Ocean Protections

Oil spills, like the Deepwater Horizon disaster shown above, threaten coastal communities, jobs and marine wildlife.

We are working to preserve and protect marine animals and their ocean homes. Through our scientifc expertise and

policy infuence, we’re taking action to protect the ocean from offshore oil drilling, and holding strong for the recovery of Pacifc bluefn tuna.

Mobilizing to defend our coasts A healthy ocean is the lifeblood of coastal communities — supporting tourism, fsheries and recreation while providing a home for extraordinary marine wildlife and ecosystems.

Offshore oil drilling puts coastal economies, jobs and ocean animals like sea otters at unnecessary risk. That’s why we’re speaking out against the federal administration’s efforts to open new ocean areastooil andgasdevelopment —including here in California.

In early 2018, we helped organize 35 other U.S. aquariums and zoos in opposing the administration’s proposal, and reached out to federal legislators

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Pacifc bluefn tuna Thunnus orientalis

to protect our coastlines. We urged our visitors, email subscribers and social media followers to speak out against this plan — and thousands took action. Aquarium supporters were among the 1.6 million people who submitted public comments against new offshore drilling. We also supported the passage of a California law banning new infrastructure associated with oil drilling off the state’s coast.

Together with our partners and allies, we’re raising our voice to protect ocean ecosystems from threats like offshore oil drilling.

Working toward recovery of Pacifc bluefn tuna We have long been a leading voice for the recovery of Pacifc bluefn tuna. The population of this remarkable ocean predator — which our researchers have been studying for nearly two decades — has plummeted by about 97 percent since the onset of industrial fshing. In 2017, the Aquarium helped achieve a breakthrough agreement among Pacifc nations to recover the Pacifc bluefn tuna population to a sustainable level.

In 2018, our team collaborated with international scientists, worked with a cross-section of stakeholders and advised U.S. offcials to keep this species on the path to recovery. When interna-tional negotiators proposed to weaken Pacifc bluefn protections, the U.S. and several other countries held a frm line to maintain agreed-upon conservation measures. Ultimately, Pacifc nations rejected the proposed changes — reaffrm-ing their commitment to protect this imperiled, iconic species.

A healthy ocean is the lifeblood of coastal

communities — supporting tourism, fsheries and

recreation while providing a home for extraordinary

marine wildlife.

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Pushing the Boundaries of Sea Otter Recovery

Our animal care specialists conceal themselves to reduce the chance of otters becoming comfortable with humans.

Aquarium feld response coordinator Karl Mayer releases a rehabilitated sea otter back into the wild.

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Our researchers have contributed to landmark studies on sea otters as a keystone species, critical to the health of local estuaries and kelp forests.

How do wildlife management and sea otter ecology come together to support a healthy coast?

After growing from a low of about 50 animals in the early 1900s to around 3,000 today, the population of southern sea otters has plateaued. To fully recover, otters must return to more of their historical range along the California coast. In a new study, our researchers identifed some of the biggest obstacles.

The study, which analyzes data from 725 stranded otters over 30 years, reveals a critical relationship between healthy kelp canopy coverage, sea otter mortality and population recovery. It fnds that loss of kelp raises the risk of white shark bites, especially at the two ends of sea otters’ range along the Central Coast. These bites can be fatal to otters, and may prevent the popula-tion from fully recovering. The paper

provides scientifc insight to guide the next phase of our work: helping otters repopulate the broader California coastline their ancestors inhabited before the fur trade.

The past year brought other milestones. In 2018, we received special permission for a wild, rehabilitating otter to practice her deep-diving skills while on exhibit. This novel experience allowed us to more fully prepare the otter for her successful release.

We also collaborated with Google to share the story of California’s sea otters with a global audience. “The Return of the Sea Otter,” a web-based Google Voyager experience, takes users to the shores of Point Lobos, Moss Landing and Cannery Row to discover why sea otters are vital to the health and economy of California’s coast.

And in a long-standing collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center, our researchers are looking to northern sea otters for clues. By studying this thriving population, our researchers gain a deeper understanding of their more vulnerable California cousins.

Southern sea otter Enhydra lutris nereis

Rosa, Ivy, Gidget, Kit (back row, left to Today, our animal care specialists no Over the decades, our team has become right) and Abby (front) foster and serve as longer don wetsuits to hand-rear otter integral to the recovery of California’s companions for stranded pups, teaching

pups. Instead, they wear body- and threatened sea otters. Aquarium experts them skills they need to return to the wild.

face-concealing uniforms to prevent otters continue to advance scientifc knowledge, We mourned the loss of Gidget in February 2019, and acknowledge her contributions from becoming comfortable with humans. infuence state and federal management, to the surrogacy program. A sample of Our resident female adult otters serve and educate the public about sea otters’ Gidget’s blood was used to sequence the as foster moms to teach pups critical essential role in maintaining the health of sea otter genome for the frst time. Her

survival skills. coastal ecosystems. DNA will be a reference point for future

Thirty-fve years after our frst rescues, genetic studies of southern sea otters. our Sea Otter Program is laying the groundwork for the future. The diet and care protocols developed by our veteri-narians and staff have given stranded sea

Thirty-fve years of pioneering research otters a strong chance to survive once

Thumb through the photos in the Aquarium they’re released back into the wild. Still,

archives, and you’ll fnd 1980s-era images southern sea otters need our help to

of our staff in wetsuits, walking along the rebuild their population along the

shores of Monterey Bay with fuffy sea California coast.

otter pups tucked under their arms. Our researchers have contributed

Southern sea otters had been brought to landmark studies on sea otters as a

to the brink of extinction, and the species’ keystone species, critical to the health of

potential for recovery was uncertain. Until local estuaries and kelp forests. One study

the Aquarium began caring for stranded found that nearly 60 percent of the otters

pups in 1984, no one knew how to keep in Elkhorn Slough, an estuary just north of

them alive once they became separated the Aquarium, are descendants of otters

from their mothers. We created a formula released from our surrogacy program.

for stranded, nursing pups and pioneered We’re excited about the potential for sea

a successful protocol for sea otter rescue, otters to help restore ecosystems along

rehabilitation and release. more of the California coast.

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Innovating and Inspiring to Protect the Ocean

In the 31 years since David Packard The dramatic impacts of human founded the Monterey Bay activity on our global ocean, including Aquarium Research Institute climate change, are accelerating. And (MBARI), the Aquarium has looked while much of the deep ocean remains

to MBARI as our lead technology unknown, this much is increasingly clear: partner. Together, we have developed it is not an alien seascape untouched by innovative research — exploring some humanity. It is a vital place on our blue of the planet’s most remote places — to planet, vulnerable to human impacts illuminate the connection between the — and supporting remarkable living nearshore coast and offshore deep sea. creatures we’re only beginning

to understand. they eat tiny particles of food, they’re Shark Café, an area of the open sea data from white sharks, our researchers also consuming microplastic and halfway between California and Hawaii. discovered the sharks are moving Shining a light on the deep sea transporting it to other animals, both Decades of data from tracking tags up and down the water column in Finding plastic in the Throughout history, the dark realms far at the surface and in the deep. told our researchers that white sharks synchrony with this mass migration.

below the ocean’s surface have captivated marine food web Taken together, the fndings reveal migrate each year from the West Coast to Since we made history in 2004 as the people’s imaginations. In recent decades,

Plastic doesn’t break down; it only that microplastic is both ubiquitous this vast area in the Pacifc. Initial fndings frst aquarium to successfully exhibit a Humpback anglerfsh MBARI researchers have made exciting

breaks up into smaller and smaller throughout the Monterey Bay water from the expedition, led by marine white shark, our research has evolved to Melanocetus johnsonii advances in our understanding of life

pieces. Pollution by microplastic — bits column and pervasive in the marine biologist Barbara Block of Stanford consider the greater importance of apex in the deep. Yet much of the deep sea

smaller than 5 millimeters across — is a food web. University, reveal the White Shark Café is predators in marine ecosystems. We are remains obscured by mystery.

This anglerfsh might live far from growing problem in the marine environ- At the same time, in our new Ocean an abundant oasis for white sharks — a far now asking new and better questions In 2021, with your help, the Aquarium

human eyes, but human activities ment worldwide. In a pioneering study, Memory Laboratory, our science team cry from the oceanic desert it was once about the poorly understood ocean will open its most comprehensive and are increasingly impacting deep Aquarium and MBARI researchers aims to develop a historical baseline thought to be. habitats that support a dazzling array

ocean ecosystems. A collaboration immersive deep-sea experience to date. documented microplastic pollution in documenting microplastic pollution MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles of marine life.

between MBARI and the Aquarium Together with our MBARI colleagues, the Monterey Bay water column and in Monterey Bay. We’re developing an helped identify more than 100 species reveals how pelagic red crabs we’re bringing this vision to life by

and giant larvaceans ingest traced its movement through marine open-access library of degraded ocean in the Café. These organisms, such as studying deep-sea animals and White sharks tagged off the coast of and transport microplastic. food webs. plastic samples, for use by researchers squid, shrimp and lightfsh, participate in their habitats. We’ll venture into the California led the way to the middle of

The research team deployed remotely anywhere, which will facilitate future the largest vertical migration on Earth, the Pacifc Ocean, where researchers operated vehicles to collect water samples studies of ocean plastic pollution. As chasing food between the midwater discovered abundant marine life from the surface down to 1,000 meters. government agencies begin to take and the surface. By analyzing tagging beneath the surface.

Those surveys revealed that while micro- action, these data can inform science-plastic is everywhere, plastic concentra- based tools and policies to reduce tions peak in deeper waters, at a level ocean plastic pollution. nearly four times the concentration at the surface. Surprisingly, the amount of A Pacifc Ocean oasis for plastic was even higher in the deepest areas of Monterey Bay than at the white sharks surface of the East Pacifc subtropical

In spring 2018, our work with MBARI gyre, also known as the “Great Pacifc

afforded an epic opportunity to explore Garbage Patch.”

a remote seascape in the middle of The team also studied how two

the Pacifc Ocean. A diverse team of species near the base of the food web

international researchers — including — pelagic red crabs and larvaceans —

Aquarium and MBARI scientists — ingest plastic. Levels of plastic inside

boarded the Schmidt Ocean Institute their bodies matched the levels in the

R/V Falkor and headed to the White surrounding water. That suggests as White shark

Carcharodon carcharias

The Aquarium and MBARI studied how microplastic moves throughout the water column of Monterey Bay.

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Monterey Bay submarine canyon and use cutting-edge technology to provide a glimpse of places never before seen by human eyes.

Pelagic red crab Pleuroncodes planipes

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Senior Aquaculture Scientist Taylor Voorhees (center) meets with shrimp producers in Vietnam.

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2018 SEAFOOD WATCH BY THE NUMBERS

320 business and restaurant partners Transforming the Global Seafood Industry 180 conservation partners in 7 countries Best Choices: Buy frst;

Fisheries and aquaculture play they’re well managed and caught Empowering businesses a signifcant role in sustaining or farmed responsibly. 60+ million consumer guides distributed global society. They’re a primary to choose socially source of protein for 3 billion Good Alternatives: Buy,

but be aware there are concerns responsible seafood people around the world and support 2+ million downloads of the mobile app with how they’re caught, farmed the livelihoods of at least 300 million

In collaboration with Conservation or managed. households. International, we brought together Blue Ribbon Task Force chefs But the ocean’s resources aren’t 60+ non-governmental organizations Avoid: Take a pass on these

infnite, and the way we harvest fsh for now; they’re overfshed, lack to establish a defnition of social threatens the sustainability of the global strong management or are caught responsibility for the seafood industry. social media followers 96K seafood supply. In the wild, 90 percent or farmed in ways that harm other

Working with Liberty Shared and the of fsheries are either overfshed or very marine life or the environment.

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, we close to overfshed, and one in fve fsh 2K+ recommendations representing 384+ launched SeafoodSlaveryRisk.org, a tool Eco-Labels: Buy eco-certifed caught is done so by illegal, unreported

to help businesses identify risks of forced items listed on our app or website. seafood species caught and farmed in or unregulated means. Unsustainable labor, human traffcking and hazardous They are at least equivalent to our

fsh farming can harm native species child labor in their supply chains. Good Alternative rating. different ways and locations

and destroy critical habitats that buffer Businesses can use the tool to identify

communities from the impacts of seafood sourced from fsheries where

climate change. these issues may exist, and work with

Seafood sustainability isn’t just suppliers to address them. Our Seafood Watch about the environmental impacts of We’re acting to address supply chain Driving the market for Welcoming new partner

wild fsheries and aquaculture. It’s also barriers, improve social conditions and program has grown to about ensuring fair, safe working con- Maintaining the global standard sustainable seafood advance governance reform that will Red Lobster

ditions for the people who produce our help producers meet growing demand become the science-based for seafood sustainability From its origins as a consumer-facing In the U.S., major seafood retailers are seafood. Labor abuses in the seafood for sustainable seafood. We are now pocket guide, our Seafood Watch incentivizing their suppliers across the industry are taking a devastating toll. focused on taking this work to scale in global standard under- Our Seafood Watch team helps U.S. program has grown to become the ocean to make changes. In 2018, we Experts estimate that millions of adults Southeast Asia, one of the largest consumers and businesses make pinning sustainability are victims of modern seafood slavery, leading science-based global seafood suppliers of shrimp consumed in partnered with Red Lobster — the world’s

seafood choices for a healthy ocean. sustainability standard. largest seafood restaurant chain, with more and millions more children are harmed the United States. To do so, we depend on robust, trans- Business commitments that affect than 700 North American restaurants. Red initiatives by seafood by hazardous child labor in the industry. Commitments made by multinational parent and timely data from fshing international supply chains, coupled Lobster has committed to selling only The Aquarium has long recognized the seafood buyers are driving change and aquaculture operations around buyers, suppliers with public demand for sustainable Seafood Watch recommended items by connections between environmental, by producers. Our priority now is to the world. That’s why we’ve grown our seafood, are moving fsheries and 2025. Business partners like Red Lobster and producers. social and economic health. We’re making get tools into the hands of small-scale global network of analysts and partner aquaculture toward more sustainable are motivating leading seafood producers a measurable difference across all producers across the region so they organizations in Latin America, Europe, practices worldwide. We are driving around the world to meet the growing three areas — both through our Seafood know how to make their farms more China, Japan and Southeast Asia. both business engagement and market demand for sustainable products. Watch program, now in its 20th year, sustainable. We’re providing them with Our seafood assessments, originally public demand. and through our newer policy initiatives. a platform, based on Seafood Watch designed to drive demand for sustainable Over the past 20 years, we have standards, to independently verify seafood in North America, now underpin transformed how businesses purchase their progress. the sustainable seafood movement seafood. In 2018, we developed and Our work in Southeast Asia, one around the globe. Producers use deployed new tools to meet regional of the top seafood-producing regions Seafood Watch assessments to improve needs and support development of in the world, can serve as a model to their practices, and governments use the conditions for sustainability in transform the industry around the globe. them to inform their management of key seafood-producing nations. seafood resources.

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Minh Phu aims to help 20,000 small-scale farms

producing black tiger shrimp achieve a green Best Choice

rating by 2025.

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Advising the world’s biggest seafood producers Ninety percent of the seafood consumed in the United States is imported. That means the Aquarium’s seafood sustain-ability goals are global — and have a global impact. With your support, over the last 20 years Seafood Watch has set the bar for seafood sustainability and is now advising some of the biggest compa-nies in the global seafood industry.

We recently partnered with former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to launch the Southeast Asia Fisheries and Aquaculture Initiative. The initiative is working to overcome obstacles to sustainable sea-food production — both environmental and societal — in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines, in collaboration with regional govern-ments and seafood producers.

We’re already seeing results. At the 2018 Our Ocean Conference in Bali, Executive Director Julie Packard and Secretary Kerry announced two major commitments to advance comprehen-sive solutions and improve government

Former U.S. Secretary of State John production. The collaborators will also Fisheries and Aquaculture Initiative policies to support sustainable seafood

Kerry and Executive Director Julie work with the Carnegie Endowment to to engage governments, industry and development in Southeast Asia. Packard at the Our Ocean Conference encourage policies that make it easier other stakeholders to advance com-

Together with major seafood producer in Bali, Indonesia. for farmers to ramp up the sustainability prehensive approaches for sustainable Minh Phu Seafood Corporation, the

of their operations. seafood development. Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative

We also joined with Thai Union Group “This commitment is an important and global certifcation body SGS, we’ll

PCL, one of the world’s largest seafood frst step in accelerating sustainability in help bring 20,000 small-scale shrimp

producers, and its Chicken of the Sea fsheries and aquaculture in Southeast farms in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta to a “This commitment is brand to launch SeaChange IGNITE — Asia,” Julie says, “and will serve as a level equivalent to Seafood Watch’s Best

an initiative to advance and improve model for engagement for NGOs, Choice — the highest rating for environ- an important frst step in sustainability throughout Thai Union’s governments and seafood producers.” mental sustainability — by 2025.

supply chain. Thai Union’s commitment This commitment is a collaboration accelerating sustainability in pledges $73 million through 2025 to

between the private sector and focus on improvements in Southeast

non-governmental organizations, all fsheries and aquaculture.” Asia and other key seafood-producing

working together to address challenges regions. Like Minh Phu Seafood

for the small-scale farming families who -Julie Packard Corporation, SeaChange IGNITE make up most of the region’s shrimp

will work with the Southeast Asian

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Speaking Up for Science-Based Fishery Management in the U.S.

Chef Sammy Monsour — chef and law, the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries co-owner of renowned Preux Conservation and Management Act. & Proper and South City Fried The United States has some of the Chicken in Los Angeles — takes world’s most sustainable fsheries,

his support for sustainable seafood beyond thanks in large part to this law. The the kitchen. A passionate advocate for Magnuson-Stevens Act is also infuencing better food systems, he believes not the sustainability of fsheries around only in leading by example, but also in the globe. In recent years, government speaking up. offcials from Japan have engaged with

“Chefs have a voice,” Sammy says, Chief Conservation Offcer Margaret “and many compelling opportunities Spring, a lead architect of the U.S. law, to to speak and act.” help inform their own national fsheries

Sammy is a member of our Blue Ribbon management policies. By keeping the Task Force, a group of high-profle Magnuson-Stevens Act strong here at Chef Danielle Leoni and

chefs and culinary leaders raising home, we will continue to help guide partner Dwayne Allen of the Breadfruit & Rum Bar. their voices for more environmentally progress abroad.

responsible food systems. Now, But in 2018, Congress introduced bills we’re activating Task Force members to weaken the act. We engaged chefs — and their peers around the coun- like Sammy — all longtime champions of

On the same day, our chef partners Culinary Epicenter, “but we still have a management. We will continue to try — to defend our nation’s strong, sustainable U.S. seafood — to tell their sent a joint letter to Congress opposing major stake in the health of our oceans work with Congress to maintain the science-based fshery management federal legislators that science-based the harmful bills. The letter emphasized and in sustainable seafood.” sustainability of America’s fsheries. fsheries management is important to that strong fsheries management isn’t In addition to authoring op-eds in major their businesses. just a fsherman’s issue, or a coastal newspapers, many of our chef partners “Congress needs to know how strong issue — it’s a food issue. have signed on to the Portland Pact for we stand,” he says. “The Magnuson-

Restaurants across the country The culinary community from land- Sustainable Seafood — a declaration of Stevens Act is imperative to the health urged their customers to speak up locked states knows this better than support for the Magnuson-Stevens Act of our oceans, coastal communities and for sustainable U.S. fsheries during a most. “Fisheries management may and sustainable U.S. fsheries. native sea species. It’s also why America is nationwide advocacy event in support seem like a weird topic for inland chefs Leading seafood suppliers of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. a global leader when it comes to respon-to get involved in,” says Danielle Leoni, joined our effort as well, sible fsheries management. That’s pretty chef and co-owner of The Breadfruit & issuing a public statement dope, right? So let’s keep it that way!” Rum Bar in Phoenix, Arizona. “But we opposing legislation that More than 60 restaurants across all love fsh. And as a businessperson, would undermine the the country, including Preux & Proper, I want access to a consistent supply of Magnuson-Stevens Act. We participated in our #ChefsForFish event sustainable seafood — even though my also activated U.S. aquarium in June 2018, featuring sustainable restaurant is hundreds of miles from and zoo partners— along U.S. seafood dishes on their menus and the nearest coast.” with our members, visitors calling on customers to help defend the

Sheila Lucero, executive chef of and social media followers — Magnuson-Stevens Act. The event was Jax Fish House, agrees. “We may be to defend this landmark law. covered by local and national news surrounded by mountains in my home Together, we were outlets, reached over 5 million people state of Colorado,” she wrote in an successful in defeating the on social media, and caught the attention op-ed for online culinary magazine threats to U.S. fsheries of elected offcials in Washington, D.C.

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“Congress needs to know how strong we stand.

America is a global leader when it comes to responsible

fshery management.”

- Sammy Monsour

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F I N A N C I A L I N F O R M AT I O N Endowment Distribution

For the year ending December 31, 2018

SUPPORT AND REVENUES

Admissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 47,775,716

Contributions and Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,485,262

Memberships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,833,44 1

Endowment Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,990,000

Merchandising and Food Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,655,907

Fee-Based Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 , 247, 1 1 6

Other Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,465,943

Total Support and Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 127,453,385

EXPENSES — PROGRAM SERVICE

5%

2018 SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Merchandising and Food Services Other Revenue

4%

Fee-Based Programs Memberships

1%

Admissions Contributions and Grants

37%

11%

35%

7%

Animal Care and Aquarium Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 51 , 256,141

Education and Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,827,931

Conservation and Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2,930,735 Fundraising Membership Services

3%

2018 EXPENSES

2% EXPENSES — SUPPORT SERVICES

Management and General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,295,632 Management and General

Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,688,46 1 10%

Membership Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ,969,170 Animal Care and Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 102,968,070 Aquarium Experience

Conservation and Science 50%

13% Capital expenditures of approximately $27.5 million in 2018 included continuing construction of

the Bechtel Family Center for Ocean Education and Leadership, completion of the Juli Plant Grainger Education and Outreach Animal Care Center, work on new and revitalized exhibits, and other Aquarium infrastructure projects. 22%

* Due to the adoption of Accounting Standards Update 2016-14 for Not-for-Proft entities in 2018 and

the associated changes in Financial Statement presentation, comparative fnancial information is not

included in the 2018 Annual Review. Copies of the 2018 audited fnancial statements will be available

online in August 2019.

AQUARIUM ATTENDANCE Free School Visits Private Events

General Admission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ,012,301 6%

2018 ATTENDANCE

2%

Member Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472,686 Group Visits Community Days / Free Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237,008 5% Free School Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,864

Group Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,508 Community Days/Free Visits

Private Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,653 12%

Total Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,971,020 General Admission

Member Visits 51%

24%

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Front row: Jane Dunaway and Julie Packard.

Protect the Ocean for Future Generations

Over the past 34 years, thanks to Personal endowments can be established both donor-designated gifts and our Board the generosity of our dedicated with a gift of $100,000 or more, and may Designated Fund, is managed for the long members and donors, we’ve been be pledged over a number of years. term. Even with the signifcant downturn in able to expand our education and We’re deeply grateful to the donors the stock market at the end of 2018, the

conservation programs, and infuence who created personal endowments average annual return was 8.2 percent new generations of ocean leaders. last year as part of our Endowment over the last 10 years — a remarkable

Unfortunately, growing threats from Fund for the Future of the Ocean. Their achievement given the recession in climate change, overfshing and plastic generosity supports our animal care, 2008-2009. pollution continue to threaten ocean education initiatives, exhibits and global Each year, 4 percent of the three-year to the wild, requires a highly skilled and Our first endowed position ecosystems — our planet’s life support ocean conservation programs. Their rolling average market value of the dedicated veterinary and animal care system. We must respond, and we will. contributions included one signifcant endowment is released to help support Jane Dunaway has supported the staff. We are very fortunate to have

We’re making a difference, but there is gift to permanently endow our veterinary our programs. In 2018, our endowment Aquarium since we opened our doors 35 Dr. Mike Murray, a prominent veterinary still so much work ahead of us. That’s services. Another donor added a second distribution provided $6.9 million in years ago. Her loyal commitment and scientist, leading this program as our why we’ve made it a top priority to build gift to an existing personal endowment critical support toward the $40.8 million generosity have helped us expand our inaugural Jane Dunaway Director of our endowment, to provide permanent for our Children’s Education Endowment needed to fund our ocean conservation exhibits and programs to inspire people Veterinary Services. We are deeply ongoing support and ensure our programs Fund to help guarantee free admission for mission and programs. to protect the ocean and ocean wildlife. grateful for Jane’s long-standing support continue far into the future. schoolchildren. In 2018, our endowment As the need for our ocean conservation Last year, with her extraordinary gift, and her endowment gift, which guarantees

In 2018, we launched our new funds reached a total of $232 million. work grows more urgent by the day, our she created the Aquarium’s frst-ever we can continue this vital work to ensure Endowment Society for donors who share Our Finance Committee, comprising donors can provide meaningful and lasting endowed position: the Jane Dunaway the highest standard of care for more our passion for protecting the ocean and trustees with strong business and invest- support that will build our endowment and Director of Veterinary Services. than 35,000 creatures under our care, who want to help secure our programs ment expertise, oversees our investment help us protect the ocean — forever. Caring for the animals at the Aquarium, representing over 550 species, for through an endowment in their name, guidelines and monitors performance on as well as those we rescue and return generations to come. or to honor a family member or friend. a regular basis. Our endowment, including

E N D O W M E N T P R O F I L E The Endowment Society In 2018, we established our Endowment Society to recognize our most dedicated donors. Their commitment to the Aquarium and to the future of For the Future of the Ocean the ocean is demonstrated through their generous support to permanently secure our conservation programs — now and for the future.

the natural environment. Their for their generous estate gift dedication andsupporthelpedus toward our Endowment Fund for We are deeply grateful and honored to recognize the following supporters provide education programs and the Future of the Ocean. as founding members of our Endowment Society: expand our global conservation The Julie Lovins and Greg Fowler initiatives. In 2000, they let us know Endowment is their legacy to inspire

Wallis Annenberg Susan and Jay Mandell that the Aquarium was included conservation of the ocean for genera

John and Jean De Nault Dr. Hugh A. McAllister Jr. as the primary benefciary of their tions to come. We honor their vision by

Richard G. and Mae F. Dong Charles and Helen Schwab newly created Pinniped Charitable permanently recognizing them on our

Jane Dunaway Foundation Remainder Unitrust. Sadly, Greg Benefactors Plaque in the Aquarium.

M. Jean Fisher Robert and Janice Scott and Julie passed away recently.

Denise Foderaro and Frank Quattrone Foundation We miss them, and we will always

Charles E. Halfmann The Terry Family Foundation be grateful for their enduring

and G. Robert Yee Leon Thomas and Betty Bird support for over 20 years and

Wendy W. Kwok and Family Candice Walker and Sachi Oka Worth and Andy Ludwick Alan Williams

Our Ocean Legacy Circle

It is with both deep gratitude and great sadness that we acknowledge the kindnessand generosity of our friends

and Ocean Legacy Circle donors who we lost in recent months. Their legacy gifts will have a lasting signifcance and allow us to inspire new generations of ocean stewards. With profound respect, we recognize the following donors:

A. J. “Joe” Carrión

Richard and Jean Collins

Leslie Doumani

Ann J. Howitt

Julie Lovins and Greg Fowler

Dr. Hugh A. McAllister Jr.

John Nash

Paul and Brigitte Olson

Kim and Jerry Orloff

Jeanne Sprague

We also wish to express our gratitude to the 581 donors in our Ocean Legacy Circle for all they do to inspire conservation of the ocean.

If you have included the Monterey Bay Aquarium as the recipient of a gift from your estate plan, please contact Mary Mullen at mmullen@ mbayaq.org or 831.648.4913.

We would like to thank you and welcome you into our Ocean Legacy Circle.

JULIE LOVINS AND GREG FOWLER, longtime Leadership Council donors, were passionate about protecting

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E X E C U T I V E L E A D E R S H I P C O U N C I L O F T H E P A C K A R D S ’ C I R C L E

The Executive Leadership Council recognizes individuals and family foundations that support the Aquarium with gifts of $100,000 or more annually.

$10 million and above Grainger Family Descendants Fund

$5 million and above Anonymous

The David and Lucile Packard

Foundation

$1 million and above Anonymous

Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund

for Strategic Innovation

$500,000 and above Anonymous

The Keith Campbell Foundation

for the Environment

Samantha Campbell

$250,000 and above Anonymous

Acton Family Giving

Joanne and Arthur Hall

Lakeside Foundation

Connie and Bob Lurie

Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation

Mary C. Solari

The Walton Family Foundation, Inc.

$100,000 and above Anonymous

Marc and Lynne Benioff

Helen and Peter Bing

Bud and Rebecca Colligan

Scott Corwon

Dalio Foundation

Mallory and Robert Davies

Pilar and Lew Davies

John and Catherine Debs,

in memory of Kerry Landreth

Michael and Susan Dell

John and Ann Doerr

Nancy Eccles and Homer M. Hayward

Family Foundation

Flora Family Foundation

Sharon and Joel Friedman

Lyda Hill

Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin “Pitch”

Johnson, Jr.

The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell

Foundation

Jeanne and Bill Landreth*

Steve and Agatha Luczo

Worth and Andy Ludwick

Susan and Jay Mandell

Burton J. and DeeDee McMurtry

Betty and Gordon Moore

Morgan Family Foundation

Chrissi and Mike Morgan

Stephen C. Neal and Michelle S. Rhyu

Bill and Sally Neukom

Susan and Lynn Orr

The Priem Family Foundation

The Quattrone Family

Quest Foundation

Jan Robb

Jan and Bob Scott

Denise Littlefeld Sobel

The Terry Family Foundation

James and Karen Tyler

Lisa and Mark Wan

L E A D E R S H I P C O U N C I L O F T H E PA C K A R D S ’ C I R C L E

The Leadership Council of the Packards’ Circle recognizes individuals and family foundations with annual gifts of $10,000 to $99,999.

$50,000 and above Anonymous

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Cheng Family Foundation

The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc.

Roberta Elliott*

Claire Giannini Fund

Betty White Ludden

Susan and Craig McCaw

Mac and Leslie McQuown

Yuanbi and Paul Ramsay

Peter and Delanie Read

Steven and Mary Read

Lonnie and Cheryl Smith

John and Sandi Thompson

$25,000 and above Anonymous

Lyn and David Anderson

Berger North Foundation

Maria Cardamone and G. Paul Matthews

The William McCaskey Chapman and

Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation

Anne and Terry Clark

Laurel and Jody Clark

Laurie and Alan Dachs

Tim Dattels and Kristine Johnson

Steven and Roberta Denning

Timothy and Melissa Draper

Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie

John H. N. Fisher and Jennifer Caldwell

Francis Family Foundation

Hellman Foundation

Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau

William Knox Holt Foundation

Arthur L. and Elaine V. Johnson

Foundation

Bob A. Johnson

Joan F. Lane

George C. Lee

Shannon Madison and Giles Douglas

Marissa Mayer and Zachary Bogue

The McElwee Family

Robert B. and Yvonne Muzzy

Purdy Legacy Foundation

Redwood Serenity Fund

Stephen Storey

Barbara Swain

E V E N T P R O F I L E

Gene T. Sykes

Suzanne Francoeur Taunt

Jim Turek and Hope Giles

Alec and Claudia Webster

Jill and Nick Woodman

David Packard Award Dinner Honoring Bill Gates IN OCTOBER, we honored visionary Microsoft co founder and philanthropic innovator Bill Gates with the third David Packard Award at an event attended by some of Silicon Valley s most iconic technology company leaders, along with global ocean conservationists and philanthropists.

Bill has done so much to improve the human condition by harnessing technology to advance social good, and by launching bold philanthropic initiatives to make lives better around the world and ensure that everyone has the opportu nity to live a healthy, productive

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The highlight of the evening was an engaging freside chat with Bill and dinner chair Meg Whitman. They covered topics from the role technology can play in environmental con servation, to new approaches philanthropy can bring to press ing global challenges and the importance of optimism.

We re deeply grateful for the support of the many donors who came together to honor Bill, and who are helping us take bold action to achieve our vision for a vibrant blue planet.

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$10,000 and above John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Sally and Craig Nordlund

Anonymous The William and Flora Hewlett Donald and Therese Olker

Susan Akers Foundation John and Tama Olver

Robert and Angela Amarante Robin and Deborah Hicks Family Tom and Laura Overett*

Anthropocene Institute Mark Horowitz Anne Pattee

Ty Ashford and J. Nicholas Jitkoff John and Norma Humphries Kristi and Tom Patterson

Susan K. Barnes and Guy L. Tribble Roberta Hunter and Donna Meyers Carrie and Greg Penner

Ned and Jimi Barnholt Chris Jaffe and Kate Karriker-Jaffe Pamela Pescosolido

Joe and Alison Barta Robert Jardine and Ellen Rose The Phillips Family

The Baylor Family Kathy and Bob Jaunich Pisces Foundation

Robert and JoAnna Behl Richard and Sharon Johe Sabrina and Katie Poulos

The Bell Family Fund Johnson Ohana Foundation Mary K. Powell

Donald and Marianne Bradley S. Allan and Marguerite L. Johnson Stephanie Reib and Thomas Weber

Michael and Sheila Brand Robert L. Jones and Catherine A. Rivlin Walter and Ramona Reichl

Brad and Lesley Canfeld Andrew and Lura Kaplan Larry and Kathi Ridley

Jack and Judy Caouette José and Barbara Kirchner Leigh and Eddie Robinson

Peter Cartwright Thomas V. Kornei The Donna Roop Endowment Fund*

Marylyn Chambreau Kriewall-Haehl Family Foundation Daryl and Mandy Salm

Linda and Randall Charles Caron and Alan Lacy Sand Hill Foundation

Helen E. Charpentier Jason Larson and Andrea Dalve-Endres B. Schilling and R. Carr

Brenda H. Christensen Douglas Lee and Kellee Noonan The Schink-Knowles Family

and Thomas W. Barry Jane A. Lehman and Alan G. Lehman The Schmitz-Fromherz Family Fund

Tammy and Bill Crown Foundation Carol H. Schneider

Leonore Daschbach Jack and Ruth Lemein Pat Chandler Seawell

Dr. Donald McEnry Davis* Dennis and Alisha Lin Jeanette B. Sechrist

The Dawson Family Edmond D. Lock BJ and NL Shipman Family Foundation

Nina and Casper de Clercq Bonnie Lockwood and Merrick Rayle Fund - Community Foundation

Annina Demmon and Roy Demmon III Chris and Melody Malachowsky of Western Nevada

Richard G. and Mae F. Dong Michael and Maxine Mantell George and Charlotte Shultz

William H. Donner Foundation Peter and Joan McKee Michael and Claire Silver

Thomas and Marilyn Draeger Rod and Peggy McMahan Pamela Silver and Jeff Way

Susan B. Draper The McMurtry Family Foundation Tracey and Robert Simpson

Christine and Reece Duca Ian McNish and Krista Canfeld McNish Rod Skinner

Marlene and Duane Dunwoodie Ana Mendez and Rajeev Jayavant George Somero and Amy Anderson*

June Duran Stock Benjamin and Marissa Messer The Stephens Family

Ken Endelman and Rosalind Van Auker Forrest and Cynthia Miller Candis Stern

David and Sarah Epstein David and Susan Milligan Mark and Mary Stevens

Anthony Escalle Family John and Nadine Mills Thomas R. and Diane Stevenson Stone

Ted and Shannon Farrell Susan and Bill Montgomery Tevanian Family

Patricia Fata Dean Morton Terri Tienken

Robert B. Fenton Family Nancy S. Mueller and Robert A. Fox Maureen Tolson

Stephanie and William Frederick Wendy Munger and Leonard Gumport Eric and Erica Turzak

John and Diané Furlan Helen and Ned Nemacheck Jack and LaDonna Valenti

Cindy Gilbert and David Greenstein Elinor T. Newman and Gary Irving Tom Voeller and Krista Terrell

Jaswant Singh Gill John and Marilyn Nickel Jeanne and Leonard Ware

Drew and Myra Goodman Peter and Dian Nielsen Paul and Jessica Westbrook

Genevieve and Jay Gudebski Roger and Ann Noll Jack Wheatley

$5,000 and above Anonymous

Neno Aiello and Judith Appleby

Jonathan and Joy Alferness

Ken and Robin Anderson

Mike and Corinne Araki-Kawaguchi

Ariko Family Foundation

Jason Bau and Amy Ng

Jim and Roberta Bell

Barbara Benson

Rudy and Mary Bergthold

Ann Bingaman

Borch Foundation

Barbara F. Borthwick

and Marilyn A. Steinhart

Max and Barbara Boyer

Fred and Susan Breidenbach

Bobbi Buell

Ms. Pearl Chan and Ms. Margaret Chan

Erik and Hilary Charlton

Steven and Karin Chase

Victoria Christie

Robert and Bobbé Christopherson

Joseph and Tina Clark

Edward and Joan Conger

Patrick J. Connolly Family

Tim and Kelly Coppedge

Keith and Kimberly Cox and Family

Victoria Dahl and Linda Rhodes

F.J. and Ellen Dale

Laurie Dasher and John Vigliecca

Richard and Susan Dauphiné

D O N O R P R O F I L E

In memory of Wendy Hayward WITH GREAT SADNESS we acknowl edge the passing of Wendy Hayward, daughter of the late Homer (founding trustee) and Nancy Hayward. Since our very beginning, the Hayward Family s generosity has been instrumental in advancing the Aquarium s work on behalf of the ocean. Wendy was a

John and Valerie Wookey Family

Kim Worsencroft and Dennis McEvoy

Linda and Koichi Yamaguchi

Judi and Dave Zaches

David and Susan Wirshup

The Woo Family

Brenda K. Wood

Ward and Priscilla Woods

PA C K A R D S ’ C I R C L E

The Packards’ Circle recognizes individuals and family foundations with annual gifts of $2,500 to $9,999.

Mona and Ed Zander

Marsha McMahan Zelus

The Zhao Family

Gordon and Jane Zook

Andrew Davidoff

James and Julia Davidson

Barbara W. Deméré

Lee and Mary Alice Dickerson

Nancy and Hugh Ditzler

Richard and Kathleen Doerr

William and Nancy Doolittle

Phyllis J. Dorricott

Karen and Phil Drayer

The Ducommun and Gross Family

Foundation

Donald Ellis

Rick and Laura Fergerson

Susan Fisher

The Shauna M. and Kevin B. Flanigan

Family Foundation

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Sameer Gandhi and Monica Lopez

Robert and Deborah Garner

Geiger Family Foundation

Paul J. and Linda Bain Geiger

Ken Goldman and Sue Valeriote

Marcia and John Goldman

Mike and Loren Gordon

Kevin, Martie and Al Graf

Ray and Ann Graf

Jerry and Dorothy Gray Foundation

Dennis and Christine Green

The Greene Family

M.R.C. Greenwood

William and Carolyn Gross

Shirley and Harry Hagey

Eileen Hamilton

Ruth and Ben Hammett

Noble and Lorraine Hancock

Karen and Rick Hargrove

Brendan and Karen Harley

James and Joyce Harris

Adrienne S. Herman

George and Kathleen Hill

Urs Hölzle and Geeske Joel

Larry and Marcia Hulberg

Peggy Johnson

Neil and Stephanie Johnston

Brian and Diane Judd

Todd and Lisa Kennedy

Amy King and Sam King

Nancy Kovalik

The Lafayette Family

Barbara and David Laidlaw

Dick and Cathy Lampman Foundation

Dennis and Cynthia Lange

Peter Lee

Fariba Lessani and Syrus Ziai

Vencent Liang

Mike Light and John Lum

Bob and Mary Litterman

Katherine Livins and Andrew Hill

George Lucas Family Foundation

Koehler Mahlstedt Family Foundation

Diane J. Mahony

Lars and Marin Mapstead

Leslie and Kevin Marks

Gene and Daneen Matts

Alan and Hope May

Kevyn and Colt McAnlis

Thomas and Mary McCary

Meredith McPherson and Arda Akman

Dan Meredith and Lindsay Nye

Victor Merlino

Fred and Linda Meyers

W. J. Michaely and Jancy Rickman

Milligan Family Foundation

Sharon and Michael Mitchell

Jo Ellen Moore

Larry E. Moore and Susan B. Moore

Sally W. Morgan

Molly and Mike Nefkens

Andrea Noble Bandy

Janet Noble and Brian Aldrich

Lori S. Nye

Joseph O’Daniel and Betty Robinson

Shannon and Diana Paboojian

Christopher and Donna Paisley

Dick and Sandi Pantages

Lorraine Y. Parmer

Judd and Sharon Perry Family

Peters Family Foundation

Bert and Janet Peterson

Lynn and Wayne Preston

In memory of Merle and Jo Price

The Rapparini Family

Kathy Reavis and David Strohm

Dave and Judy Redo

Kanwal and Ann Rekhi

Susan and Don Rice

Jane and George Roach

Mark D. Roos and Catherine Rossi-Roos

Nancy Ruskin

Heather and Mehran Sahami

Walter and Ruth Schillinger

The Schleyer Foundation

Stuart and Lisbet Schlitt

Sara and Patrick Schmitz

The Scott Foundation

Douglas Soo and Rachael Staudt

Gary Sorgen

Laurence L. Spitters

Alexis and Matthew Stauffer

Boryana and JB Straubel

Mark and Frances Sturgess

Henry Taniguchi

Jennifer Taylor and Phillip Trujillo

Paul and Jane Taylor

Drs. Arlene and Jay Tenenbaum

Sally Tischler and Jim Newsome

Michaline and Matthew Todd

TOSA Foundation

Brian and Pamela Uitti

James Vanlandingham

John Venneman

Rick and Franca Voegelin

Connie and Robert Waldrop

Jeff Weiner and Lisette Derouaux

Brayton Wilbur Foundation

Warren and Penny Wood

Ayse Perihan and Mete Yalcinkaya

William York and Shawn Lampron

$2,500 and above Anonymous

George and Judith Abbott

Robert and Kristin Abbott

William and Jeanette Abbott

Larry S. Abitbol Family

Fannie Allen and George W. Cogan

John C. Ameling

and Susan A. Charbonneau

Keith Amidon and Rani Menon

Dorothy and Steven Anderson

Brenda Angelo

Christopher and Julie Antonio

Charles and Ronni Arduini

Kristine Arredondo and Family

Margot M. Avery

Debbie and Paul Baker

Thomas and Christine Banks

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Juli Plant Grainger — A Lifetime of Caring

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IN RECOGNITION of a major leadership W.W. Grainger, a family business gift, our new Animal Care Center founded in 1927. She was an active was named in memory of the late community volunteer and philanthropist, Juli Plant Grainger (1926 2014). serving as trustee of many organiza Born in Chicago, Juli graduated from tions including The Field Museum, University of Wisconsin Madison in The Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1948. She was married for 64 years to and Colonial Williamsburg among college sweetheart David W. Grainger others. Juli and David visited the and was an important partner with Monterey area often and were longtime David in his career as chairman of supporters of the Aquarium. the industrial supply company

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