Jane Stevens, in Berkeley, CA - Check out "Tagging of Pacific Predators" on KQED-TV's QUEST!

Jane Stevens at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA -- Will giant Humboldt squid take over Northern California's fisheries? It's a question that the producers at KQED-TV's QUEST asked squid researcher Bill Gilly in a terrific segment that will air tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1.

Jane Stevens, at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - Last weekend, slimy squid. This weekend, leatherback turtles. At Camp Ocean Pines, the winter lecture series comes to successful close with turtle researcher George Shillinger.

Last weekend, Hopkins' squid researcher Bill Gilly brought Humboldt squid to Camp Ocean Pines, and folks attending the workshop had a unique opportunity for a hands-on experience!

Jane Stevens at UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab - This weekend, there's a most unusual event called the Teachers' Squid-Focused Weekend In-Service. The person who will be leading this focus on squid is TOPP's Bill Gilly, a professor of marine and organismal biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station.

Jane Stevens at UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab - This weekend, former TOPP principal investigator Randy Kochevar will be the guest speaker at Camp Ocean Pines 2008 Marine Science Series. Randy developed "Mysteries of the Deep" for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and was the first outreach coordinator for TOPP. He'll talk about TOPP's history, the 22 species of animals that our researchers have tagged, including elephant seals, white sharks, turtles, squid, and albatross.

Today we caught another very large mako. This one was a mature male. We were able to put both a SPOT and PAT tag on him.

Guaymas, Mexico. [ed. note – the author is Ashley Booth, Bill Gilly’s Lab Tech. Here's her account of the last leg of their squid expedition.]

Aboard the R/V Pacific Storm, San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

We’re in Guaymas, Mexico, for three weeks of squid tagging. (That's me, fishing for the elusive humboldt squid). And acoustic testing. (More on that in the next posting.)

Procedures work but squid grow slim and a paradox is reinforced. Off the coast of San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico.