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Distinguished Speaker Series: John O’Sullivan
July 24, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
The Ocean Institute’s Distinguished Speaker Series, presented by the Nicholas Endowment, brings interesting innovations, real-world research, exotic experiences, and delightful discoveries to the surface through powerful presentations from an ocean of experts. Speakers present on a variety of topics that align with our monthly themes.
Admission includes light snacks and refreshments.
Distinguished Speaker: John O’Sullivan
John O’Sullivan, Director of Collections at Monterey Bay Aquarium, to speak about the 20-year research program on Juvenile White Sharks along the Eastern Pacific.
As Director of the Collections Department, O’Sullivan possesses extensive knowledge of aquarium collection requirements, methods, species, and seasonality locations, including transport, disease recognition, treatments, and general husbandry. O’Sullivan directly conducts research and development on a wide variety of species regionally and internationally.
Sunday, July 24th
4:00pm – 5:30pm
$15 – General
$10 – Members
About John O’Sullivan
His presentation will include information about his 20-year-long research. From 2001-2020, the Monterey Bay Aquarium led an international research effort to understand the life cycle, ecology, and behavior of young and juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in Southern California. During the course of this research, 79 electronic tags (59 PAT and 20 SPOT) were placed on 63 White Sharks to record the species’ movement. The collected data helped document the young sharks’ seasonal migrations, nursery locations, fishery interactions, and habitat shifts arising from ocean warming in the regional waters of Baja California, Mexico, and California, U.S.A. This data spawned dozens of research papers and helped inform local, state, and federal fisheries managers in the U.S. and Mexico on the collective knowledge of juvenile White Sharks. This program supported the Aquarium’s mission to inspire the conservation of the ocean.
