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Shark Festival and Sanctuary Celebration 2001Sea Otter Research Featured at USGS Booth
Every fall, a Shark Festival and Sanctuary Celebration is held on the Santa Cruz Wharf in Santa Cruz, CA, to celebrate the anniversary of the establishment of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. For this year's celebration of the Sanctuary's 9th birthdayheld on September 30thUSGS personnel from CMGP and the Western Ecological Research Center collaborated with researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz on a booth about USGS sea otter research.
Visitors to this year's booth were invited to touch sea otter pelts and skulls, look through microscopes to learn how teeth are used to tell an otter's age, and handle samples of what sea otters eat. Visitors read posters on how scientists are monitoring the California sea otter's recovery from near extinction.
Younger visitors were given sea otter coloring pages to color at the booth or take home, and they were invited to add their creative touches to a poster-size sea otter drawing. Teacher packets and handouts on a wide variety of USGS research activities went like hotcakes, and the booth overflowed with visitors during most of the five-hour (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) duration of the festival.
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in this issue: Geophysical Survey of Hawaiian Coral Reefs Sediment Study on the Columbia River
cover story: Woods Hole's First Annual Open House Shark Festival and Sanctuary Celebration 2001 Metadata Workshop with Peter Schweitzer Richie Williams Speaks on Science and Religion USGS Mendenhall Post-doc Fellowship Passing the Torch for Production of Sound Waves |