Show threadAdrianna TanNov 5, 2024
Saying hi to Tino the giant pacific octopus (still young)
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 5, 2024
Employee perk: being able to see the kelp forest with no people around (before we open!
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 5, 2024

Keep your nudibranchs close and your anemones closer

#Marine #Puns

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 5, 2024
The northern anchovy ‘yawns’ as it eats because it’s opening its mouth and eating everything
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 5, 2024
I got to squish a moon jelly
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 7, 2024

I think I’ll keep updating this thread to share the joy I see whenever I am onsite (which is going to be, often, coz I need this)

I learned that the jellies have circular tanks because.. they get stuck in corners

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 7, 2024
Top view of an actual shark tank
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 8, 2024
We don’t have corn holes. We have coral hole
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024
The view on my walk to work when I’m down there
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024

Sticking my phone through the holes of a fence. And finding a (I think) Brandt’s cormorant colony

#Birding

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024
Kind of unfair that a random photo out of the railings has birds and otters in it
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024
I get to sea the open sea exhibit before we open! A sure way to know we haven’t opened is there are bubbles in the water
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024

The Monterey bay aquarium stands on the grounds of a former sardine cannery. Due to overfishing, the sardine population collapsed. When I heard about this I thought of the Silicon Valley office parks 50 miles north, engaged in modern extractive exploitation without ever giving back.

The recovery of the bay, the work of the aquarium and the marine national park status has completely changed the environment

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024

Attending a staff-only internal guitar concert in the open sea exhibit this morning

You can watch some live cams here (of the animals, not the concert)

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024
Meeting in the kelp forest (we are closed today for a staff only event)
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024
There really was a guitar concert in front of the sea nettles this morning
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 14, 2024
An exhibit that shows what a ‘whale fall’ looks like
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 14, 2024
Slow shutter speed / low light photo of a lump fish
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 14, 2024

Move over, JK ‘TERFY’ Rowling.

Here’s ’Hairy Otter’, written by (probably) JK Owl

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 16, 2024

My friends are asking if I’m involved in any of the fun social media and I’m like nope but I love that team and I’m trying to meet all of them

(Monterey Bay is the GOAT: Greatest Ocean of all Time)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCZ-RrjIwQy/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Monterey Bay Aquarium on Instagram: "Feeling super amped up that we got Executive Director, Julie Packard, and Chief Conservation and Science Officer, Margaret Spring joining the trend to tell you all about the based things at our Aquarium. They truly were the moment💅✨🌊 #MontereyBayAquarium #TheyDeliveredLikeAQueen #GenZWroteTheScriptMillennialsGoogledTheTerms"

7,381 likes, 111 comments - montereybayaquarium on November 15, 2024: "Feeling super amped up that we got Executive Director, Julie Packard, and Chief Conservation and Science Officer, Margaret Spring joining the trend to tell you all about the based things at our Aquarium. They truly were the moment💅✨🌊 #MontereyBayAquarium #TheyDeliveredLikeAQueen #GenZWroteTheScriptMillennialsGoogledTheTerms".

Instagram
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 16, 2024

The otter people didn’t let me take my phone to the behind the scenes otter feeding, but promised to send me photos after so

#Marine #Mammals #Otters #OttersOfMastodon #OttersOfTheFediverse

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024
I have an octopus scarf!
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024

At work they got us to head out to connect with the ocean. Honestly can’t believe I get to be here

Also not lost on me that this very beach was yet another Chinese settlement that was destroyed by ‘fire’ in 1906

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024
Someone made a whale
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024
I made a dumpling
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 21, 2024
View from a room where I’m having a 3 day training program
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 22, 2024
View from my last day of training
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 22, 2024
Someone just told me ‘California sheephead transition from female to male, AND conjure a sphere of mucus to protect them when they sleep’
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 22, 2024
Maybe it shows I spend a lot of time looking at jellyfish but I got in this morning and was like NEW JELLY
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 23, 2024
Pacific sardines
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 23, 2024

Some photos of the outside

https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113523907297130686

Adrianna Tan (@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 2 images It’s hard to leave work sometimes! #Photography #Monterey #California

Hachyderm.io
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 10, 2024

I went for a walk at lunch

#Monterey #MontereyBayAquarium #Kelp

Show threadAdrianna TanDec 10, 2024
I met some of my coworkers
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 10, 2024
I love going to see the jellies
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 11, 2024
A coworker showed me her anglerfish plush toy
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 11, 2024
Many of my days in Monterey kick off here. It’s the coffee spot near work I tend to have breakfast meetings at, and also the mid point stop on my bike ride there.
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 11, 2024
Some days I feel like I’m in a John Steinbeck novel
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 12, 2024
More jelly
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 13, 2024
Can’t believe I get to see penguins while I’m at work
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 18, 2024
View from an office window (and I work in one of the ‘boring’ office buildings, not at the main aquarium). They all have pretty good views I think
Show threadAdrianna Tan

Pufffy

#Birds #Puffins

Dec 18, 2024 at 11:58pmWeb
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 19, 2024
I get notes with fish on them
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 19, 2024
View from my lunch meeting
Show threadAdrianna TanDec 21, 2024

The kelp forest exhibit says something like ‘you always know it’s a rockfish when it’s just laying there not moving’

Same

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 9

Birds before work (I went through a secret door to find some cormorants)

#Birds #Monterey #Birding

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 9

I’m obsessed with the egg yolk jellies

#jellyfish #marine #monterey

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10
My wife is in town (very rare!) so we took a nice evening stroll from the aquarium to the Sandbar
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10

Bloody-belly comb jelly. Can’t believe I get to see this at work

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/bloodybelly-comb-jelly

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10
Black necked stilts at our onsite aviary (which rehabilitates and releases injured birds, and keeps those who can’t be released)
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10
The ‘wave crash’ feature at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10
GIANT sea bass
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10

I love this pic I took of the avocet this morning. I went to the aviary this morning before we opened and I had the whole place to myself

#Birding #Avocet #Shorebirds

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 11
Baby birb (snowy plover)
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 14
I like to take the scenic route to my office (past the kelp forest)
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 14
The back deck when there’s no one there is really cool
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 22

I don’t know if you know how big this tank is

You can also se inside here https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/kelp-forest-cam

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 22
The round blob in the top center is a southern sea otter frolicking by herself
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 22

Lunch with a view

#Birding #Cormorants

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 23

Seen around the office.

1. Sunfish costume (!!)
2. Penguin plushie

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 28
Pacific sardines at the roundabout
Show threadScott FrancisJan 28
@skinnylatte working in that kind of environment all day must be like a continual positive reinforcement of peaceful feelings all the time
Show threadSteve DavidianJan 23

@skinnylatte

Loving the mola mola.
And your aquarium!

Show threadDaveOfTheNuiJan 23
@skinnylatte That poor Penguin is getting the wedgy from hell!
Show threadC64toneJan 24
@skinnylatte huge!
Show threadMatt BlazeJan 22
@skinnylatte Are you trying to make the entire Internet want your job?
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 22
@mattblaze I have to do some hiring soon, so maybe
Show threadStella C 🇨🇦Jan 22
@mattblaze @skinnylatte Well I’m hooked.
Show threadDenis 🌏Jan 22
@skinnylatte And Santa Cruz County across the bay! ❤️
Show threadschrotthaufenJan 22
@skinnylatte If I wasn’t too blind to safely go diving, I’d want to jump in there😅
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 22
@schrotthaufen they do have diver volunteers who clean tanks and feed fish :) and a program to teach scientific diving to kids here
Show threadschrotthaufenJan 22
@skinnylatte I love that y’all teach kids how to dive. Most enjoyable sport in existence, imho. Added bonus: YOU SOUND LIKE DARTH VADER!
Show threadBob MonsourJan 22
@skinnylatte Massive! We were there a few months ago. What an extraordinary place!
Show threadhumanadverbJan 22

@skinnylatte Tank is big.

For a couple years when I was itty bitty my life's ambition was to be the scuba guy in there. Still a daydream of mine...

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 22
@humanadverb there’s a dive volunteer program to clean the tanks, but the line is long
Show threadkimothy siddonJan 14
@skinnylatte monterey bay aquarium is such a nice building, it's been a while since I've been there but i have fond memories
Show threadsb arms & legsJan 10

@skinnylatte
Lookit those getaway sticks!

These guys are awesome!

Show threadScott 🇯🇲 🇺🇸Jan 10
@skinnylatte It’s definitely striking a pose for your camera 😆
Show threadranjitJan 10
@skinnylatte You have the best job!
Show threadDavid McMullinJan 10
@skinnylatte
Feels kinda Fred Astaire somehow.
Show threadMarge吴静玫Jan 10
@skinnylatte Lovely! How many species in the aviary?
Show threadRamiroJan 10
@skinnylatte ooh actually, could you be my person on the inside? I love visiting when there's a giant sunfish / mola mola on display but I know they have difficulty keeping them too long because of how fast they grow
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10
@ramiro ooh I will ask someone
Show threadJosh Jan 10
@skinnylatte the photo really does not convey how ridiculously big they are.
Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10
@josh0 280-500 lbs!
Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Jan 10

@skinnylatte

Oh, I've gotta visit this some day…

amends bucket list accordingly

Show threadAdrianna TanJan 10
@amin lemme know! We can go whale watching ;)
Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Jan 10

@skinnylatte

Oooh, haven't done that since South Africa! And I was a little 'un.

Show threadRebecca WallaceJan 10
@amin It's absolutely wonderful. The best aquarium, hands down, I've ever seen. We used to live in Monterey County and didn't go there enough.
Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Jan 10

@wallacewords

A ringing endorsement!

Hm, been a long time since I've been to an aquarium, actually. There's one I've been to in California but I don't remember which…

Show threadyelling jackalJan 10
@skinnylatte Oooh I loved that part of the aquarium the most! The person there told us all about one bird that was surrendered by someone, the bird didn't know how to get along with other birds and got bullied so they built it its own lil island section 
Show threadJames B ToyJan 10
@skinnylatte cormorants convene on Cannery component.
Show threadalexa lake Jan 9
@skinnylatte
A photographer's natural affinity for anything near teal-orange 😉
Show threadDavid ThomsonJan 9
@skinnylatte that looks amazing, and also like it is dangerous to the touch…
Show threadLydia SchochJan 9
@skinnylatte @blogdiva Jellyfish are so cool.
Show threadAgas Ramirez 🎙️Jan 10
@skinnylatte I did not know these existed 🤩
Show threadDuchess of UmbrageJan 10
@skinnylatte WHOA
Show threadJoan AlbrightJan 9
@skinnylatte I see they're observing their social distance today
Show threadSindarina, Edge Case DetectiveDec 21, 2024
@skinnylatte Mood, to be honest.
Show threadMichael PotterDec 19, 2024
@skinnylatte Okay, a bit jelly.
Show threadkfDec 19, 2024
@skinnylatte this is giving elementary school teacher aesthetic in the best possible way
Show threadAmanda BeeDec 19, 2024
@skinnylatte I can't really move, definitely don't want to commute, and I like my job just fine. And yet. I did just look up the job listings page (https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/about-us/job-opportunities if you're similarly intrigued)
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Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024

The Monterey bay aquarium stands on the grounds of a former sardine cannery. Due to overfishing, the sardine population collapsed. When I heard about this I thought of the Silicon Valley office parks 50 miles north, engaged in modern extractive exploitation without ever giving back.

The recovery of the bay, the work of the aquarium and the marine national park status has completely changed the environment

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024

Attending a staff-only internal guitar concert in the open sea exhibit this morning

You can watch some live cams here (of the animals, not the concert)

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024
Meeting in the kelp forest (we are closed today for a staff only event)
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024
There really was a guitar concert in front of the sea nettles this morning
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 14, 2024
An exhibit that shows what a ‘whale fall’ looks like
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 14, 2024
Slow shutter speed / low light photo of a lump fish
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 14, 2024

Move over, JK ‘TERFY’ Rowling.

Here’s ’Hairy Otter’, written by (probably) JK Owl

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 16, 2024

My friends are asking if I’m involved in any of the fun social media and I’m like nope but I love that team and I’m trying to meet all of them

(Monterey Bay is the GOAT: Greatest Ocean of all Time)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCZ-RrjIwQy/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Monterey Bay Aquarium on Instagram: "Feeling super amped up that we got Executive Director, Julie Packard, and Chief Conservation and Science Officer, Margaret Spring joining the trend to tell you all about the based things at our Aquarium. They truly were the moment💅✨🌊 #MontereyBayAquarium #TheyDeliveredLikeAQueen #GenZWroteTheScriptMillennialsGoogledTheTerms"

7,381 likes, 111 comments - montereybayaquarium on November 15, 2024: "Feeling super amped up that we got Executive Director, Julie Packard, and Chief Conservation and Science Officer, Margaret Spring joining the trend to tell you all about the based things at our Aquarium. They truly were the moment💅✨🌊 #MontereyBayAquarium #TheyDeliveredLikeAQueen #GenZWroteTheScriptMillennialsGoogledTheTerms".

Instagram
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 16, 2024

The otter people didn’t let me take my phone to the behind the scenes otter feeding, but promised to send me photos after so

#Marine #Mammals #Otters #OttersOfMastodon #OttersOfTheFediverse

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024
I have an octopus scarf!
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024

At work they got us to head out to connect with the ocean. Honestly can’t believe I get to be here

Also not lost on me that this very beach was yet another Chinese settlement that was destroyed by ‘fire’ in 1906

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024
Someone made a whale
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024
I made a dumpling
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 21, 2024
View from a room where I’m having a 3 day training program
Show threadrednikkiNov 21, 2024
@skinnylatte I love how the remnants of the canning industry that nearly destroyed the Bay have now become residences for wildlife.
Show threadMicahNov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte That is amazing! I am jealous. Again.
Show threadJ. Steven York RESISTSNov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte
Fantastic!
Show threadD. B. StuckNov 20, 2024

@skinnylatte

A lovely scarf it is! My wife and I are enamored with cephalopods.

Show threadAndromeda YeltonNov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte it's so pretty!
Show thread𝚝𝚓𝚠Nov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte omg I'm jealous that's awesome
Show threadPrairie_DogNov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte @TerryHancock Very nice, and the octopi look quite realistic.
Show threadPetesmom *has moved*Nov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte I was deciding whether to follow and you got me at Octopus scarf 🐙💖
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 20, 2024
@JGuz sweet!
Show threadJillNov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte ack, jealous! Great scarf!
Show threadrednikkiNov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte That is fabulous!
Show threadScubaETNov 20, 2024
@skinnylatte I love it! 🐙
Show threadSheepnikNov 16, 2024
@skinnylatte so otterly cute!
Show threadMs. Que BanhNov 16, 2024
@skinnylatte Cuteness overload welcomed!
Show threadMark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)Nov 17, 2024
@skinnylatte @Pollinators How about the otter sea creatures? Are they more available?
Show threadKristin (vis.social Admin)Nov 17, 2024
@skinnylatte soooo cute!!!
Show threadAlice 🐝Nov 17, 2024
@skinnylatte their little hands 
Show threadMark KraftNov 17, 2024
@skinnylatte @HourlyOtters worthy.
Show threadDevNov 18, 2024
@skinnylatte omg
Show threadvruzNov 16, 2024

@skinnylatte

That's indisputably true! It is, in fact, the greatest ocean of all time!

Show threadvruzNov 16, 2024
@skinnylatte (since at least 300 million years, more or less, close enough)
Show threadDouglasNov 14, 2024

@skinnylatte hahaha that gift shop is out of control. The big otter was really rotting and falling apart for a few years but I think they either repaired it or replaced it because it doesn't look as ratty now.

The Ed Ricketts lab next door is worth a visit when they open it for tours once a month.

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 14, 2024

@douglasvb haha yes it
Is so kitschy

I plan to check out Ed Rickett’s house soon

Show threadRiley S. FaelanNov 14, 2024
@skinnylatte Shouldn't that be J. K. "Superb" Owl ?
Show threadJeremy KirkNov 14, 2024
@skinnylatte Very cool.
Show threadMicahNov 14, 2024

@skinnylatte I'm gonna have to ask you to stop posting these, because I've never been there and can't really afford to take a trip to CA right now!

(Don't actually, please.)

Show threadtanteNov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte you really have the absolutely greatest place of work.
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024
@tante I can’t believe it happened and that I get to experience all of this joy
Show threadtanteNov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte IÄm very happy for you
Show threadNed Raggett (has moved!)Nov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte Ah, so great! Had missed you're there now. Been going off and on since the 1980s (my folks live quite nearby). Hope it's been a good settling in to the new work.
Show threadEmilyNov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte I don’t suppose the aquarium needs an RF/DSP engineer? 🙃
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024
@emily I think there is a team that has this role. Let me see if I can find out anything
Show threadEmilyNov 13, 2024

@skinnylatte really? I was being silly! It seems so out of the realm of what I’d expect at an aquarium. I design and program custom radio systems from the circuit board up. Though I guess I would only be maybe 60% surprised if an organization with such specialized needs might have such a role.

I was reading some of your posts from this thread to my wife last night and she was especially excited about the whale watching :)

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024

@emily they have some pretty hardcore systems engineering teams here. They have to do the stuff like how to pump and filter millions of gallons of water and send it back. How to build the gear that needs to go into the research ships. If you look at MBARI’s (our sister org) career page I wouldn’t be surprised if they have stuff like that. They send ships out, do black water diving, send out ROVs to the deep sea

https://www.mbari.org/person/yanwu-zhang/

Yanwu Zhang • MBARI

Education and Work Experience Yanwu Zhang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and the M.S. degree in Underwater Acoustics Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. In 1998, he received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the M.S. degree in …

MBARI
Show threadEmilyNov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte interesting! I don’t have much experience with mechanical or industrial systems, but I’ve been working for quite a long time with FPGAs, embedded software, and math in general. I’ll have to check that out, thanks!
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 13, 2024
@emily yeah MBARI is an incredible org. The aquarium is interesting coz it’s both aquarium and conservation / research. MBARI is a sister org that collaborates with us (and shares similar roots) but they def do more stuff closer to what you describe
Show threadScott FrancisNov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte I have some truly spectacular photos from in there. my favorite location, inside my favorite place.
Show threadScott FrancisNov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte your feed is giving me big MBAQ withdrawal symptoms; we haven't been in about a year and I'm super missing it rn. keep posting pics!
Show threadLisa Gets PolitikNov 9, 2024
@skinnylatte The Monterey Bay YouTube video streams helped me get through the pandemic lock down.
Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024
@lisagetspolitik amazing! I’ve heard so many people say that.
Show threadgrechawNov 9, 2024

@skinnylatte

For some elder color - I was at Pacific Grove Middle School when the aquarium was built. Before it, cannery row was all ruins - and it was sooooo cool down there. It was
a magical place for a kid to explore. Everyone got passes to the aquarium when it was built, and it was a treasure to have as an after school destination. One particular highlight was playing music for evening events there.

Show threadAdrianna TanNov 9, 2024
@grechaw I read that the hovden cannery guy wanted to build an aquarium in PG! He even got quotes for it but didn’t do it
Show threadgrechawNov 9, 2024
@skinnylatte 👀
Show threadgrechawNov 14, 2024

@skinnylatte

Ok I looked it up because I was like wait the Aquarium IS in PG. It's right on the border with Monterey. And the building is the Hovden Cannery site. What I learned in looking though is it only closed in 1973! So those ruins in played in were not so old at all, just ruins of old buildings... That neighborhood was a glorious mess.

Show threadPhil WolffNov 13, 2024
@skinnylatte perhaps a National Office Park Service to recover and restore old offices to a more natural habitat.