Ed Ricketts and The Pacific Biological Laboratory
A brief history of The Pacific Biological Laboratory presented by Michael Hemp and Frank Wright.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) is a non-profit public aquarium located in Monterey, California, United States. The aquarium was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row. It has an annual attendance of around two million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing more than 600 species on display. The aquarium benefits from a high circulation of fresh ocean water which is obtained through pipes which pump it in continuously from Monterey Bay.
The centerpiece of the Ocean's Edge Wing, is a 28-foot-high (8.5 m), 333,000-US-gallon (1,260,000 l; 277,000 imp gal) exhibit for viewing California coastal marine life. In this exhibit, the aquarium was the first in the world to grow live California Giant Kelp. Visitors are able to inspect the creatures of the kelp forest at several levels in the building. The largest exhibit in the aquarium is a 1,200,000-U.S.-gallon (4,500,000 l; 1,000,000 imp gal) the Open Sea exhibit (formerly the Outer Bay), which features one of the world's largest single-paned windows. It is one of the few aquariums to successfully care for the ocean sunfish in captivity.
Sea life on exhibit includes stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, sea horses, and numerous other native marine species, which can be viewed above and below the waterline. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of very few in the world to exhibit both bluefin and yellowfin tuna. For displaying jellyfish, it uses a Kreisel tank, which creates a circular flow to support and suspend the jellies. The aquarium does not house mammals other than sea otters that were rescued through its Sea Otter Program
History[edit]
There had been a number of attempts to build an aquarium in the Monterey area dating back almost 100 years. In 1914 an aquarium was proposed to the city council by Frank Booth with a cost of $10,000. A bond issue was sponsored in an attempt to place an aquarium in the basement of the Pacific Grove Museum by Knut Hovden in 1925 and in 1944 an aquarium is suggested for Point Lobos State Reserve.[5]
The aquarium occupies land at the end of Cannery Row (once Ocean View Avenue) in Monterey, at the site of the Hovden Cannery, a sardine cannery that helped to define the character of Monterey from the time it was built in 1916 to the day when it was the last cannery on the Row to close in 1973, after sardine fishing collapsed. This building was dismantled in 1980, but beginning in 2002 the Monterey Bay Aquarium has blown the original Hovden Cannery steam whistle at noon each day to commemorate it.[6]
The Pacific Biological Laboratories of Ed Ricketts, on Cannery Row, Monterey, California.
The aquarium's original building was designed by the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis and opened on 20 October 1984. The aquarium's mission is to inspire conservation of the oceans. The aquarium's initial financial backing was provided by David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. Packard, an avid blacksmith, personally designed and created several exhibit elements for the aquarium at his forge in Big Sur, including the wave machines in the Kelp Forest and aviary. His daughter, marine biologist Julie Packard, is currently Executive Director of the aquarium.
The aquarium was built in honor of the work of Edward Ricketts (1897–1948), a marine biologist who specialized in describing communities of organisms (which would also be the focus of aquarium tanks), and whose old laboratory (Pacific Biological Laboratories) (PCL) and home resides next to the present MBA site.[7] Ricketts, whose life was an inspiration for the eventual building of the aquarium, is famous as the Doc of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. The aquarium itself contains a display of Ricketts' items, including some of his personal library. The shop also sells a variety of Steinbeck books.
June 2018 MBARI Bioinspiration Cruise: RV Western Flyer and ROV Doc Ricketts
MBARI's Bioinspiration Lab will be heading to the twilight zone with RV Western Flyer and ROVs Doc Ricketts and MiniROV. See the Flyer and Doc Ricketts in action.
Black Irish Band- Sweet Thursday (Song for Doc Ricketts)
This original song was written by band member Patrick Michael Karnahan of the Black Irish Band. the lead vocal is from bandmate James Nelson.
The song is a tribute to the late Ed Doc Ricketts, who was made famous in the John Steinbeck books Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. Doc is featured as the main character in both books. The endings however are quite different for Doc. Cannery row ends on a sad note where Sweet Thursday is happy and Doc falls in love.
Patrick wrote the words based on a dream, or vision that Doc has in the first book. A woman of great beauty that he sees in the tidepool. In the story we never know who she might be, maybe a past love. The songwriter takes that vision and it becomes a daydream for Doc. the daydream is the storyline in the 2nd book Sweet Thursday.
Doc however at the end of the story song wakes up to find out that his love was only a dream from Cannery Row!
The song is on the bands 19th Cd album release California Story which features lead vocals by Michael Martin Murphey. Buy this Cd album at --
Bands web-site at blackirish.com
Good morning from the Great Tide Pool and Happy 121st Birthday to Ed “Doc” Ricketts!
121 years ago today, on May 14, 1897, Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts began his trek around the stars and into the tide pools of the Pacific Coast. His magnum opus Between Pacific Tides became the intertidal zoologists' Bible for decades to come, and inspired an entire generation of marine scientists—including the founders of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Enjoy the sights and sounds from the Great Tide Pool in Pacific Grove, where John Steinbeck and Ricketts spent many a day immersed in life between the two worlds of Planet Earth, and make sure to follow along this week as we dive deeper into the world of Ed Ricketts. Doc and the tide pools of life he wrote so fondly about.
This is Part 1 of our series of talks around Ed Ricketts, celebrating his birthday week!
Part 2 — Ed Ricketts and the Aquarium:
Part 3 — Ed Ricketts' Neighborhood: Cannery Row
Part 4 — The Death and Life of Ed Ricketts:
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100 Story Project - Susan Shillinglaw: Joseph Cambell and John Steinbeck
Susan Shillinglaw talks about the renowned philosopher, Joseph Campbell, his time on the Monterey Peninsula, and his relationship with John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts.
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Directed by Mark Baer
Director of Photography - Tosh Tanaka
in association with Cutter Rig Productions
Production Coordinator: Bert Rankin
Edited by Fred Nelson -
Edited by Joe Aslinger
Some photos owned by Pat Hathwaway
Music by Myron McClellan
Art by Andre Miripolsky
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Cannery Row Symposium 2016 with Prof. Susan Shillinglaw
Prof. Susan Shillinglaw: 'He Aches Me Like a Missing Arm': Steinbeck's Ricketts and Ricketts' Steinbeck. Professor of English at San Jose State University; former Director of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. She teaches English at San Jose State University as the leading Steinbeck and Ricketts scholar in the country and prolific author and lecturer on those topics. She recently became Director of the National Steinbeck Center (Salinas), and has for years been a Cannery Row Foundation Board Member. Sponsored by Fisherman's Wharf Association. Title song: Yellow Dog Blues performed by Jake Stock and the Abalone Stompers. Closing music by Milton Fletcher and recorded live at Wave Street Studios. canneryrow.org
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Below Pacific Tides - Subtidal Habitats in Monterey Bay Greg Cailliet Moss Landing MLML
Greg Cailliet summarizes the marine habitats in Monterey Bay and the typical assemblages of fishes, and some invertebrates, which occupy them with a focus on the deep water column that is below most whales that occur here.
Greg Cailliet is Professor Emeritus of Biology (Ichthyology) Moss Landing Marine Laboratories & California State University, Fresno; Director Emeritus, Pacific Shark Research Center, and
Associate Director, Friends of Moss Landing Marine Lab. He was a founding member of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ESNERR) Advisory Committee and was the founding Chair of the Research Activity Panel (RAP) for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and served on the Sanctuary Advisory Committee (SAC).
For more than four decades, his graduate students have studied the ecology of marine fishes. He has specifically been primarily interested in deep-sea fishes and their ecology but also bay, estuarine bony and cartilaginous fishes. He and his graduate students have pioneered age determination, verification, and validation techniques of fishes using the growth zones in their calcified structures, along with their radio-isotopic characteristics.
Section 1: Introductions; John Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts, and a Sense of Community
A brief biography of Ricketts; the close relationship of Steinbeck and Ricketts outlined; the effect of the friendship on Steinbeck's art broached; the importance of the sense of community pervading the writer's life and works introduced.
About Ed Ricketts - Larry Hosford
About Ed Ricketts (Larry Hosford)
LARRY HOSFORD - Guitar, Vocal
PAT MAHONEY - Fiddle, Vocal
BILL SULLIVAN - Bass, Vocal
BILL INGRAM - Guitar, Vocal
LIVE recording from May 2009
WAVE STREET STUDIOS
Fishing in the deep: observations of a deep-sea anglerfish
This video shows never-before seen footage of a deep-sea angler fish, Chaunacops coloratus. In it, we summarize recent work by scientists at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The video seen here was recorded by MBARI's ROV Doc Ricketts at depths of 7,800 - 10,800 feet below the ocean's surface. For more information please see MBARI's news release at
Great Writers of the West: John Steinbeck and the Environment (ArtsWest 2017)
Presentations from the ArtsWest symposium at Stanford University on May 10, 2017.
The world seemed on the brink of catastrophe when John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Today we are confronted with our own cataclysmic moment in time. Steinbeck’s compassionate explorations of inequality, poverty-induced human migration, and environmental degradation yield insights we are at pains to grasp. As perhaps no other novelist before or since, Steinbeck had a fundamental ecological awareness. He shows us that people are not separate from the land on which we tread, and in fact share a common fate.
Living Steinbeck by Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
The Ecology of Humans by William Souder, Writer
We Ain't Foreign: Race, Land, and Nation in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrathby Sarah Wald, University of Oregon, Department of English and Environmental Studies Program
Sea of Cortez and the 'Toto Picture' by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Writer
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Gavin Jones, Stanford University, Department of English
Steinbeck's Holism, Susan Shillinglaw, National Steinbeck Center