In Sept 2025, Black Ocean Stanford Scholars (BOSS) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted a 3-day gathering celebrating Black scholars in ocean studies. From networking and tide-pool exploring to identity workshops and a moving aquatic-history exhibit, the event ended with a candlelit dinner. 🌊

Congrats to undergraduate Zulie Malone, who won the Best Undergraduate Poster award for her senior thesis research on #kelp and marine #heatwaves at the Western Society of Naturalists meeting in San Diego this month! 🌊

Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social

Generations of ocean insights: Learn about the Hewatt-Sagarin transect, an ongoing visual survey dating back to 1931 to monitor marine life along the shores of @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social, part of the Doerr School of Sustainability.

Integrating Cultural Resources for Sustainable Oceans - Great Opportunity!

First sea stars in our brand new facility at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social ! ⭐

The Hopkins Internships - Summer Undergraduate Research Funds Poster Fair at Hopkins showcased undergrads’ summer research on kelp, fisheries, neural activity & more. Funded internships give students a launchpad into real science alongside Stanford faculty, postdocs & grad mentors.

On Wednesday, August 6, Hopkins Marine Station welcomed 10 members of Stanford’s Undergraduate Advising (VPUE) team, including Undergraduate Advising Director Julia Burrows, for a full-day visit. The team connected w/ faculty & interns to explore ways to bring more Stanford undergrads to Hopkins.

On August 1, 2025, SESUR & SURGE Undergrad Research programs from @stanforddoerr.bsky.social visited Hopkins Marine Station. Barbara Block welcomed the cohort, students toured active research labs, and they got hands-on with a touch tank at The Point before heading to Macabee Beach.

Fieldwork season has officially started! We monitored kelp forests in Argentina 🤿 We monitored kelp forests in Isla de Cedros, Mexico 🤿 In two weeks, we will monitor the kelp forests of Baja California Peninsula 🤿 *Automatic responses to emails activated*

Absolutely gorgeous green algae from Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷 Possibly Boergesenia forbesii / Valonia forbesii. I believe that the bubbles are single, inflated cells - amazing!

Last but not least, I grabbed the scrapbooks that document the history of @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social. Only the first album has been scanned & this is now at the top of my digitization list. Totally irreplaceable. 4/

Hopkins welcomed students from Bridge Builders LA, a nonprofit that expands opportunity for youth, for a hands-on intro to ocean science and research. Students toured labs, met w/ researchers and graduate students, and learned about pathways from high school to college to careers in marine science.

On July 24, we welcomed the Stanford Young Investigators to Hopkins! 🌊 These inspiring high schoolers are spending their summer diving into science & sustainability through Stanford’s K–12 outreach. During their visit, they learned about whale research & checked out the dive locker 🤿

The ocean is looking gorgeous today! Views from @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social 🌊

This #PhycologyFriday we found an amazing diversity of marine algae during the gorgeous low tide @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social

First week of the HI-SURF & BSURP summer internship programs at #HopkinsMarineStation This year’s cohort is made up of students who have joined labs across the station, including the Micheli, Weigel, Block, De Leo, Voskoboynik, Lowe, Barone, and Goldbogen Labs.

First day of our mini-course centered on advanced imaging of marine larvae! Everyone is excited spawning sea urchins! 🤓

Today Pieter and Sebastian @streichan.bsky.social showed the students how to build a light-sheet microscope! 🤯

Job Alert! We are recruiting one postdoc to work on spiralian embryos and their crazy polar lobes. More info about this HFSP-funded position on our website baronelab.org: scroll to the end, click on "this could be you"...start your adventure!

Students of our mini-course imaging kelp with @brookeweigel.bsky.social!

The start of summer research at Hopkins 🦭

This #WorldOceansDay, we asked school community members what experiences and insights inspire their wonder for the oceans. Here’s what they had to say: stanford.io/43w27mi

Today in Born Predators: Why would you need a shark biologist to investigate a slam dunk shark attack? Well, she knows a lot about the way sharks behave and can say what’s normal. And what might be unusual. And what might be impossible stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

Really nice pride event @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social! Happy June, y’all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Pride from California Native Plants!

The sea lions have taken over the beach in Monterey again! What a sea lion party 🎉

You’re on a boat in a small bay near where the movie Jaws takes place. It’s a deep summer night. A dear friend is in the water, and you find there’s a huge, tagged white shark in that same bay. What’s your reaction? What do you do? How does it turn out? stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

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Global energy systems have undergone major changes over the past 25 years. Looking ahead to the next quarter century, how can energy scientists and engineers help inform smart energy decisions? Stanford professors Tony Kovscek and Roland Horne discuss: stanford.io/4dBTVEi

A great Thursday at Hopkins Marine Station 🦭

Toothsday 5/27: we’re posting Chapter 2 of Born Predators. Hennessey senses the wide ocean as layers of sight, sound, smell, taste, & electrical signals broadcast by her prey. Her predator’s brain integrates, evaluates & decides. Her mother’s brain plans stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

The complete chapter 1 of Born Predatorsis out! Then we’ll add to the story every Toothsday. With the idea that by #Jaws 50th Anniversary day June 20, we’ll be well inside the tail. stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

The main character in our new book is a white shark named Hennessey. She’s migrating up the US east coast with 7 pups inside. And she’s looking for a warm cove to give birth in. How do sharks reproduce? Why a warm cove? stephenpalumbi.substack.com/p/born-preda...

Excellent developmental biology symposium at Hopkins today organized by Vanessa Barone. Guest speaker Jake Warner with Stanford and Biohub faculty. Really great talks and discussion.

🔬 What could lab-grown meat mean for the future of food? Here’s what a Stanford food and agriculture expert had to say about the sustainability impacts and potential of cultivated meat:

We are lucky to have you here @brookeweigel.bsky.social !

Thanks to everyone who cheered and participated in the Hopkins Marine Station Basketball Tournament! Next up: 🌊 Beach‑side volleyball 🏓 Pickleball games 🤝 More chances to connect, compete, and build community Curious about community engagement at Hopkins Marine Station? Send us a message!

Thank you for sharing! @elizabethkennen.bsky.social

One of my favorite views from the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail. Love seeing the harbor seals, loved working on this composition! So nice to see @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social here. 💙

Yesterday, I went on one of the most beautiful giant kelp forest dives of my life, right outside @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social! 🤿🌊 #PhycologyFriday

Tackling challenges together is what makes the Hopkins Marine Station community one of a kind. Every other Monday our Station Striders Run Club hits the coastal rec trail, which led to a large turnout for our Hopkins community at the Big Sur International Marathon! 🏃‍♀️🌊 #BigSur #Monterey

An amazing morning of exploring the intertidal at Hopkins Marine Station! #Stanford #StanfordUniversity

I took a mental health break and made a bracelet with the LOC call number for this aerial photograph of @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social [ca. 1980]. Have plans for more! #DHmakes

Had a great time teaching the public about marine algae today at the Hopkins Ocean Education Station! 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social

Not to even mention the fantastic people here @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social, the fun we have in our makerspace (which is LEGIT), and all the other shenanigans I get up to around here. Did I mention the tide pooling? 10/10, would not trade this job for anything.

Fully protected #Calif #MPAs significantly enhance #kelp forests' resistance to and recovery from marine #heatwaves in Southern California. kudos Joy Kumagai, Giulio De Leo, @nurad.bsky.social @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MarineLife #ocean #fishery

Excited to share this article about my path to science & new research lab at @stanforddoerr.bsky.social and @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social! 🌊 sustainability.stanford.edu/news/illumin...

I'm trying to track something down & it lead me to reading through cruise reports from the Stanford Oceanographic Expeditions (1960s). I ✨love✨ an excuse to read these as they are full of wonderful quotes. We don't write about research cruises like this any more! Here is one example ... 🌊 1/5

On 26 November 1964, R/V Te Vega was at sea between the Nicobar Islands and the northern tip of Sumatra. Professor Donald P. Abbott (pictured) from @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social was Chief Scientist & wrote a letter to the director of the marine station about the trip. He said ... 2/5