New Wing Dedicated at the Bodega Marine Laboratory

On Saturday, May 4, 1996, the new West Wing of the Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML), Bodega Bay, was dedicated with an attendance of over 350 people including:

• Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef and his wife, Rosalie
• Senator Mike Thompson, a great proponent of coastal reserves and the Bodega Marine Laboratory
• Cadet Hand, the first BML director
• Mr. Robert Ogg, inventor of the Danforth anchor
• John and Mary Louise Riley, for whom the weekly BML Seminar Series has been named
• Eleanor Uhlinger, head librarian

Current BML Director, Dr. James Clegg served as host. The new wing offers a 120-seat lecture hall, a larger library (dedicated that day to Cadet Hand), two large aquaria and a jellyfish aquarium in the main entrance hallway, an outside tidepool/ mesocosm still to be completed, a large conference room with a view of the ocean, and offices for faculty, research staff, visiting researchers, and administrative staff.

Animal Science Professor Ernie Chang and Geneticist Dennis Hedgecock are now housed in this new wing.

During the dedication, Chancellor Vanderhoef, who was directly responsible for BML when he first came to UC Davis in 1984 and has remained a strong supporter over the years, got to "speak" to a fish and received from it a bottle of wine etched with BML's logo, a unique BML way of dedicating the wing in lieu of ribbon cutting.

For those of you who have worked, studied, or conducted research at the Bodega Marine Laboratory since it opened in 1961, now is the perfect time to visit the Laboratory and see how it has grown and prospered. Please call 707-875-2211 for more information and tour schedules.