Jane Stevens, at UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab - On Saturday, Feb. 2, photographer Frans Lanting presents "Albatrosses: Birds of Legend in Times of Trouble" in two shows -- one at 2 p.m. and the other at 7 p.m. -- at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz.

Jane Stevens at UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab, CA - Meet albatross researcher Scott Shaffer at Camp Ocean Pines this weekend! Get up close and personal with this guy, who's traveled to some of the most remote islands on the globe to study sea birds and mammals, take a look at his photos and hear his stories about putting satellite tags on albatross and red-footed boobies in the middle of storms and high winds. He'll bring some amazing things for show-and-tell -- the wing of an albatross, the skull and bill, a chick bolus.

Nicole Teutschel at Año Nuevo State Reserve, CA -- Last Friday's big storm generated huge waves that snatched at least three tiny pups from the sides of their mothers. Flood warnings, thunder and lightning, gale force winds, and even high surf warnings were in effect all over the central coast. Año Nuevo State Reserve was no different. One guest of the park remarked on how the thunder and lightening was cracking literally overhead, the animals were agitated and the rangers deemed the park unsafe for guests and closed the park.

Sal Jorgensen, at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA.-- Here's an updated plot of the juvenile white shark that John O'Sullivan and the team from the Monter

Scott Benson in Monterey Bay, CA. During the late summer and fall, leatherback turtles usually arrive in coastal California waters to feed on schools of jellyfish that mul

Monterey Bay Aquarium shark handlers transferred the 4-foot, 9-inch, 67-pound juvenile male shark from a holding pen off Malibu to the Outer Bay tank.

Jane Stevens in Monterey Bay. Roz Savage was rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter at 8:30 p.m. last night and is back on land, in California.

Scott Benson, from Monterey Bay, CA. Upon returning from Papua Barat, Indonesia, I was happy to find good weather conditions for a local aerial survey.

The tag that we recovered from the juvenile white shark released by the Monterey Bay Aquarium on January 16 shows that he high-tailed it west from the 50°F waters of Monterey Bay to warmer waters

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