Join Shark Stewards for "Sharklife" in our annual Sharktoberfest at the California Academy of Sciences. We will be hosting a panel discussion on interactions with sharks, relative risk and behavior with survivors, scientists and managers. Meet us at the Trex as you come in and visit the naturalists and cool shark activities. Members: $12; Non-Members: $15 New! Planetarium Pass Reservations: $3 (more info) 21+ [...]
Film and Talk on Local Shark Research and Conservation by Shark Stewards at the University of San Francisco
Join Shark Stewards on one of two final Farallon Island expeditions documenting wildlife in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
Join Shark Conservationist and Naturalist David McGuire and other wildlife specialists celebrating sharks in a life-changing experience searching the Gulf of the Farallones for whales, wildlife and our finny friends. Join us exiting beneath the Golden Gate for an amazing photo and wildlife opportunities entering the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary on a modern day wildlife expedition. These are [...]
Book an exclusive trip to the Farallon islands 30 miles off the Golden Gate Bridge.
Join Shark Steward's Director David McGuire at a community event with the International Ocean Film Festival and the newly named Estuary and Oceans Science, formerly Romberg Tiburon Center. Screening of the film Blue Serengeti on local white shark research with Stanford's Tagging of Pelagic Predators. https://vimeo.com/172591980 Reception 6:00/ Presentation 7:00PM More information. 3150 Paradise Dr, Tiburon, [...]
Thirty miles west, one can catch a glimpse of the mysterious Farallon Islands when the marine layer lifts. The coastal by Miwok Indians called them the Islands of the Dead, and the Devil's Teeth by Spanish mariners who dreaded the unseen rocks and fog shrouded spires of the Farallones. Named by explorer Juan Cabrillo, Farallones means [...]
By DAVID MCGUIRE Surfers along the central coast of California call this time of year Sharktober. This is the season when the white sharks of the north east Pacific population return from an incredible migration of over 2000 miles to aggregate at a few locations along the west coast to feed on elephant seals and sea [...]
The waters off the San Francisco Coastline can be rough, wild and even extremely dangerous. Large waves pound our shoreline, strong tidal currents create rips and eddies and carry sediments from the Delta and deposit it into shallow shoals. There is even the occasional Great White Shark to remind us that our city is perched on [...]
Maybe its Shark Week but a recent tweeting at Pier 39 San Francisco has been raising questions about the identification of a local shark. The shark in question was sighted swimming in the Bay and has been tweeted as a Great White Shark. In a film we produced for the Aquarium of the Bay, City of [...]
