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Elkhorn Slough EcoTour + Sunflower Star Lab and Fossil Collection Tour
Join Save Our Shores as we explore the Elkhorn Slough, get a peek inside a rare fossil collection, and tour the Sunflower Star lab!
Experience the beauty and diversity of Elkhorn Slough during peak birding season aboard the Monterey Bay Ecotours electric catamaran. Joining the tour will be a naturalist from Monterey Bay Ecotours; Jane Silberstein, a Save Our Shores board member and marine scientist who studied the slough during her graduate work and spent 33 years as an interpretive trainer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium; and Katie Thompson, Executive Director of Save Our Shores.
After disembarking, you will split into smaller groups for two special, behind-the-scenes experiences. Each group will tour the Sunflower Star Lab, which is breaking new ground in raising and reintroducing sunflower sea stars – a keystone predator of sea urchins – to help restore Northern California’s kelp forests following their dramatic decline. You will also receive rare access to a local fossil collection, a hidden gem in Moss Landing that is not open to the public. The groups will then switch so everyone can experience both.
Boat tour: 12:30PM-2PM
Lab and collection tour: 2PM-3PM
Registration is limited to 28 people.