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, 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.

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.