How to attend Dr. Milton Love’s presentation
When
Saturday, March 28, 2026, 2:00pmEvent Venue
The event will be held at the Monterey History & Art Museum at the Stanton Center in downtown Monterey. Admission is free.How to Get There
IMPORTANT NOTE: use GPS instructions to Wharf Parking, not the museum or the address. The Stanton Center is above the Lighthouse Avenue tunnel. It is easy walking distance from Old Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown, Wharf Parking, or the municipal marina parking lot (e.g. K-dock).Parking
Use the Wharf parking lot. The museum is on the NW end of the parking lot. Divers coming from K-Dock should walk from there to avoid a second parking fee at the opposite end of the lot.Address
5 Custom House Plaza, Monterey, CA 93940
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 50 years and is the author of over 150 publications on the fishes 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 the past 18 years, and using a manned research submersible, Dr. Love has carried out surveys of the fish populations living around natural reefs and oil/gas platforms throughout the southern California Bight.
Clearly having little or no life, Milton has recently authored, with Jessica Eggers, his co-conspirator, Gonzo Ichthyology A Graphic Guide.
And, 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.
About Dr. Milton Love
What is Gonzo Ichthyology?
Is it a personal, non-objective, view of fishes? Is it idiosyncratic art that is the love child of M. C. Escher and Aubrey Beardsley?
Or is it both of these things – a remarkable melding of art and science?
Frankly, we neither know, nor do we particularly care.
But seriously, and if we can just have a little heart-to-heart here, this book is kind of like a petty bourgeois croissant stuffed to overflowing with Nutella. But, in this instance, we have substituted stuff about fishes for that sweet, sweet elixir. What kinds of stuff? Well, aspects of fish biology, fish ecology, fish behavior, the history of ichthyology, piscine sex, fishy violence…you know…stuff. And, while you are being force fed this stuff, we will manage to, hmmm, not tickle your funny bone exactly, but maybe give it a swift kick where the sun don’t shine.