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The Long Marine laboratory is a research and education center which opened on March 11, 2000. It is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a field base for researchers of the Monterey Bay. Long Marine lab focuses primarily on marine sciences and is “the only working research laboratory in California regularly open to the public.”^[1] More than 52,000 public visitors, including 10,000 K-12 students, visit each year. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UCSC or UC Santa Cruz, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ... Marine Science is a multidisciplinary field of study and research of ocean life and physics. ...

History

The Monterey Bay presents an ideal place to study marine life. Because of the abundance of wildlife the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary was created in 1992. The University of California, Santa Cruz was established in 1965 and marine sciences always have been important because of its unique location, near the Monterey Bay. Long Marine Laboratory acts as the oceanside research center for UCSC's Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS). Donald and Marion Young made this center possible by their donation of 40 acres of coastland and a freshwater area near Santa Cruz to UCSC for the establishment of a marine laboratory. Private supporters and then fundraisers, grants and contracts funded the construction. The center receives its name because of a $2 million donation from H. Boyd Seymour Jr. of San Francisco in honor of his father. H. Boyd Seymour, Jr., was born in 1926 in Sacramento. He received his AB in Biological Sciences from Stanford University in 1947. He was the Principal of Franklin Resources, Inc. but is currently retired. A view of Monterey Bay Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of California, south of San Francisco. ... The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) is a Federally protected marine area offshore of Californias central coast. ... Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...

Exhibits

The Seymour Marine lab has four different exhibits: looking, testing, puzzling, questioning. These try to show the viewers what scientists do, and how he or she does it.

The Looking Exhibit: This exhibit “offers thematic interactive experiences and adventures in a wide variety of scientific fields for visitors of all ages, and in nine different languages.” ^[2] These displays try to give the viewers a “hands-on” experience, and try to show how a scientist does his or her research out in the field. There are three different parts to this exhibit:

1. Elephant Seals field studies
2. Costal Geographical Processes
3. Tidepool Ecology: Long-term Observations

The Testing Exhibit: At this exhibit there are three displays and instruments used by scientists to collect data and samples for a variety of things: investigating life on Earth, they are used in the depths of the oceans, with marine mammals in water and air, and to sample the environmental toxins that accumulate everywhere. The three displays are:

1. Ocean Drilling Project (ODP)
2. Pinniped Sensory Abilities
3. Heavy Metals in the Environment

The Puzzling Exhibit:

1. Marine Snow Studies
2. Otter and Killer Whale Interactions

The Questioning Exhibit: The questioning aspect of the center is incorporated with the aquarium. On each tank, which houses an animal, there is a question relating to that animal which the scientists have to ask themselves. Some examples of these questions are: “How smart is an octopus? What does this crab do when it outgrows its shell? What survival techniques do sanddabs use to escape hungry predators?”

The Aquarium

The animals in the aquarium are chosen for their unique characteristics, or bizarre appearances that would attract attention and questions. There is also a “What's in the Bay Today” display which shows animals in the Monterey bay seasonally or are rarely seen in the aquarium.

The Blue Whale Skeleton

The Blue whale skeleton in the institute is one of the largest Blue whale skeletons in the world. A dead blue whale washed ashore at Fiddlers Cove near Pescadero on September 6, 1979. Biologists and students from UC Santa Cruz began flensing the whale, the whole process took about a month to complete. After being transported to UC Santa Cruz the carcass was buried near the college. In the summer of 1985, the bones were unearthed and reconstruction began. Frank Perry was hired to mount the cleaned bones for display. He and a group of specialists successfully constructed a steel framework to support the bones and recreate the proper arch of the spine and completed it in 1986. In 1999 the skeleton was finally moved to its final resting place at the Long Marine Laboratory. The Whale is 18 feet tall and 87 feet long. 90% of the skeleton mass is real bone, 60 bones had to be reconstructed out of the 176 total bones in the skeleton.

The Blue Whale skeleton outside the Long Marine Laboratory of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Desalination Plant

Due to the drought in Santa Cruz in the late 1970's the Soquel Creek Water District has agreed to split the bill with the city of Santa Cruz on a desalination plant. The city has not added to its water supply since that drought so the desalination plant would alleviate the threat of another drought. “Currently, work is being done to build a $4 million test desalination facility at the city's Long Marine Lab.” ^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter/history.html
2. ^ http://www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter/history.html
3. ^ http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=452

External Links

• http://www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter/history.html
• http://ims.ucsc.edu/lml.html
• http://www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter/about.html
• http://www.planetware.com/santa-cruz/long-marine-laboratory-and-aquarium-us-ca-lmlaq.htm
• http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=452

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