The Scientist Friends of the Museum is a group of 20 renowned scientists who serve as advisors to the Museum. These members have contributed to the rich and diverse science education offerings by the Museum over the years. If you would like to be considered as a science advisory, contact king@pgmuseum.org
Gregor Cailliet: professor Emeritus of Biology (Ichthyology) Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University System and Co-Director, Pacific Shark Research Center
Gage Dayton: administrative director of the UCSC of California Natural Reserves
Bruce Carlos Delgado: mayor of Marina, CA
Andres Durstenfeld: professor of biology at Monterey Peninsula College
Daniel Fernandez: professor science and environmental policy, CSUMB
David Greenfield: emeritus professor of Zoology, Univ. of Hawaii: research associate Department of Ichthyology California Academy of Sciences
Elin Kelsey: award winning author, educator, researcher
Robert N. Lea: research associate in Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences; research associate in Ichthyology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; research affiliate, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories; American Fisheries Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists – Committee on Names of Fishes
Laura Lee Lienk: coordinator at Applied Science and Technology for the Service Learning Institute CSUMB; Specialist Science and Environmental/Watershed; director at Return of the Natives Restoration Education Project
George Matsumoto: senior education and research specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Todd Newbury: professor emeritus ecology and evolutionary biology UCSC; biology of ascidians; modular organisms; biosystems; author 'The Ardent Birder.'
Stephen Palumbi: professor Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University; Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation; senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Mark Readdie: resident director and reserve manager for the University of California Natural Reserve System and UCSC at Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve System
Doug Smith: professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy at CSU Monterey Bay
Stuart Weiss: co-founder Creekside Center for Earth Observation
Michael Westphal: ecologist, Bureau of Land Management, US Dept. of the Interior, Hollister, CA field office
Joe Wible: retired head librarian and bibliographer at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station’s Harold A. Miller Library
Suzanne Worcester: professor of science and environmental policy CSUMB
John Pearse: Passed July 31, 2020, professor emeritus marine biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. His impact on the museum is immeasurable, having served on our Science Advisory board for over 10 years. He created the LiMPETS program which exposes thousands of students to the intertidal. He shared his love and enthusiasm of the natural world with us all, and we will miss learning from him as he hopped along the rocks of Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz.