Monterey Bay Aquarium Fieldtrip November 2002

We first stopped at Nepenthe, Big Sur	Phoenix silhouette	View from Nepenthe
Nepenthe (Greek) means potion that erases sorrow	Zoomed in view	Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station is next to the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Ready to see sea critters!	Monterey Bay Aquarium	Aquarium outflow
Sea nettle jellies (Chrysaora fuscescens)	Another sea nettle	Moon jelly (Aurelia labiata)
Purple-striped jelly (Pelagia colorata)	Upside down jelly (Cassiopeia xamachana)	Spotted jelly (Mastigias papua)
Cubozoa: Box jelly (Tripedalia cystophora)	Ctenophore (Bolinopsis infundibulum)	Ctenophore (B. infundibulum)
Aimee by Haeckel plates	Ernst Haeckel plate	Touch tanks
Cryptochiton stelleri…	The giant gumboot chiton	Close-up of foot and gills
Scaled worm shell (Serpulorbis squamigerus)	Serpulorbis feeding	Strawberry anemones (Corynactis californica)
Shrimp (Lysmata californica)	Anthopleura xanthogrammica	Sea cucumber feeding
Placiphorella velata…	…a carnivorous chiton…	…traps prey with its girdle hood
Ready to strike	Red sea cumber (unidentified)	Chambered nautilus
The cuttlefish, Sepia…	…can quickly change colors…	Distant relatives of Nautilus
Rockfish posing (Sebastes sp.)	Onespot fringehead (Neoclinus uninotatus)(*)	Large male sheephead (Semicassyphuys pulcher)
Seastars	Quadriradial symmetry (Asterina miniata)	Skate egg cases (big skate, Raja binoculata)
	The tide was out at Hopkins when we left for home