California Oil and Gas Platforms as Fish Habitat
Milton Love, Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, UCSB
UCSB’s own Dr. Milton Love knows more about rockfish on the Pacific Coast than anyone else, and his accolades speak for themselves. Anyone broadly interested in fish, conservation, or oil platforms will not want to miss this esteemed yet undoubtedly captivating seminar.
— Erin Winslow, Bren School PhD Student
ABSTRACT
Most of us lead drab and colorless lives as drones and cogs in faceless organizations. With his tales of research around southern California oil and gas platforms, Milton (only his wife calls him Dr. Love) will enter your world like a bright and fanciful rainbow, or a swatch of William Morris wallpaper, or perhaps one of those Baratza espresso makers that look like something out of a caffeine-induced fantasy.
BIO
Dr. Milton Love is a research biologist at the Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara. He has conducted research on the marine fishes of California for over 45 years and is the author of over 100 publications on the fishes and invertebrates of the Pacific Coast and has written such books Certainly More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast, A Guide to the Rockfishes, Thornyheads, and Scorpionfishes of the Northeast Pacific, and The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific. For over 15 years, using a manned research submersible, Dr. Love carried out surveys of the fish populations living around natural reefs and oil/gas platforms throughout the southern California Bight.
Proving that you can fool some of the people all of the time, in 2007 the American Fisheries Society awarded Dr. Love the Carl R. Sullivan Award for Conservation Resources.
