Category: MBARI

In the Mercury-News Paul Rogers has placed a story that can only exemplify what operators of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, or MBARI, can regard as good press. It's a staple sort of story for regional press, about an institution founded by a local, wealthy, famous late person and kept going by the family. But Rogers has the advantage of writing about a place that, unless I am terribly mistaken, deserves good press. The founder is David Packard, tech-pioneer of the Hewlett-Packard electronics industrial edifice in Silicon Valley. The prime family member who keeps nourishing the better-known Monterey Bay Aquarium - of which she is exec. dir. - and its science sibling MBARI is his daughter Julie.

For its 25th anniversary the place is having an open house. Rogers goes beyond saying that it's a nifty opportunity to get behind the...