Live Life Team
Stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, large ocean sunfish, orange sea pen, and other sea creatures can all be seen in one of the world’s largest aquariums in Monterey, California. Founded on 20 October 1984, Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) provides exhibits of 35,000 plants and animals in 623 species.
MBA features two tanks: a 33-foot high tank and a one million gallon tank The former offers California marine life and was the first to grow live Giant Kelp through a wave machine. On the other hand, the latter features the world’s largest single-paned windows. Here exhibits can be viewed below and above the waterline. MBA’s structural building, which was built and designed by the architectural firm Esherick Homsey Dodge & Davis, provides visitors with the opportunity to inspect kelp forest’s creatures. It also features a school of 3,000 anchovies and Great White sharks. Furthermore, it provides an exhibition of the Americas’ 19 penguins and sea otters. Since the aquarium conveys the unique beauty of nature, it was used in the 1986 film, ‘Star Trek TV: The Voyage Home’ as the Sausalito Cetacean Institute in Sausalito.
Currently, the aquarium is supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a David Packard organisation that initially funded MBA at its foundation in 1984. Admission fees, special events, and membership dues are used to cover its operational costs. MBA, which is managed by marine biologist Julie Packard, is comprised of three different institutions: the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation, Support Services, and the Research Institute.
