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In 198 days, the first white shark grew more than 17 inches (43 cm) and gained over 100 pounds (45 kg) prior to its release. [ap] As of 2016, Monterey Bay Aquarium is the only public aquarium in the world to have successfully exhibited a white shark for longer than 16 days. [aq] [55]
The Monterey Bay Aquarium tracked the migrations of 79 juvenile sharks and found great whites have not only adapted to the perils of climate change but thrived in them.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is a private, non-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California. MBARI was founded in 1987 by David Packard, and is primarily funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Christopher Scholin serves as the institute's president and chief executive officer, managing a ...
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay. Photos: Is that shark smiling? Here's why young great whites grin at Monterey Bay's Shark Park
Southern California Marine Institute, a multi-campus research station on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles area. University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, which also houses the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, is based in Fairbanks, Alaska and also has a small station in Seward, Alaska. CFOS
Kelly Benoit-Bird (born 1976) is a marine scientist and senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. [1] Benoit-Bird uses acoustics to study marine organisms and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010.
Hopkins Marine Station, a research facility run by Stanford University in Monterey, California; John Martin (oceanographer) Marine Mammal Center; Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a research facility associated with the University of California, San Diego and located in La Jolla, California
The longest a great white was held in captivity was at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in September 2004. A young female was kept in an outdoor tank for 198 days before releasing her back into the wild. In the following years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted five more juvenile white sharks for temporary stays before ending its program in 2011. [3]