Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

Established in 1966, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories operates as a multi-campus marine research consortium of the California State University system, administered by San Jose State University. Its location matters: the main facility sits within a few hundred meters of Monterey Canyon, the largest undersea canyon on the west coast of the Americas. Seven CSU campuses share access to the facility, and researchers here initiated the iron fertilization theory — one of the more consequential ideas in modern oceanography.