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  2. Monterey Bay - Wikipedia

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    Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California, south of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco itself is further north along the coast, by about 75 miles (120 km), accessible via CA 1 and US 101 . Santa Cruz is located at the north end of the bay, and Monterey is on the Monterey Peninsula at ...

  3. California State University, Monterey Bay - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .csumb .edu. California State University, Monterey Bay ( CSUMB or Cal State Monterey Bay) is a public university in Monterey County, California. CSUMB's main campus is located on the site of the former military base Fort Ord, straddling the cities of Seaside and Marina, about one mile inland from Monterey Bay along the Central ...

  4. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ( MBARI) is a private, non-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California. MBARI was founded in 1987 by David Packard, and is primarily funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Christopher Scholin serves as the institute's president and chief executive officer, managing a ...

  5. Monterey Bay Aquarium - Wikipedia

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    Monterey Bay Aquarium. / 36.6181; -121.9019. Monterey Bay Aquarium is a nonprofit public aquarium in Monterey, California. Known for its regional focus on the marine habitats of Monterey Bay, it was the first to exhibit a living kelp forest when it opened in October 1984.

  6. Presidio of Monterey, California - Wikipedia

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    Presidio of Monterey in 2005. The Presidio of Monterey ( POM ), located in Monterey, California, is an active US Army installation with historic ties to the Spanish colonial era. Currently, it is the home of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLI-FLC). It is the last and only presidio in California to have an active ...

  7. Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) is a federally protected marine area offshore of California's Big Sur and central coast in the United States. It is the largest US national marine sanctuary and has a shoreline length of 276 miles (444 km) stretching from just north of the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco to Cambria in San ...

  8. Monterey Bay Coastal Recreational Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail (or Monterey Bay Coastal Trail for short) is a trail that runs along the coast of the Monterey Bay.It stretches for 18 miles, between Castroville, California and Pacific Grove, California, and passes several tourist attractions along the way, including Cannery Row, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Fisherman's Wharf.

  9. 2023 Monterey Park shooting - Wikipedia

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    The Monterey Park shooting was the second of three mass shootings in California in about a week, preceded by a house shooting in Goshen and followed by another shooting in Half Moon Bay, the three shootings killing a combined total of 24 people. It was also the fifth mass killing in the United States since the beginning of 2023.