
Richard Ross, above, marine biologist at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences, examines a Giant Pacific Octopus at the academy’s aquarium in San Francisco.

Richard Ross holding 80,000 fertilized embryos of the endangered Staghorn Coral, Acropora Cervicornis.
- Post MACNA 2013 banquet with Laura Birenbaum, Joe Yaiullo, Kevin Kohen, Gary L. Parr, John Coppolino, Vincent Chalias,Jake Adams, Richard Lawrence Pyle Ph.D., Tony Vargas, Todd Gardner, Christine Williams Pasagelis, Vincent Chalias, Sanjay Joshi, Matt Wandell, Richard Ross, Paul Whitby and Simon Garratt.