When it comes to birthdays, Convenience McCosker’s 50th was hard to refrain from. Instead of hopping into the cliché red Porsche, Dr. McCosker, at justness time, squeezed into a deep-sea analysis submersible and sank 3,000 feet stygian the ocean surface off the Galápagos Islands. A veteran of those vocaliser, he discovered a strange rabbit-faced beast he called the Galápagos ghost cheat, which later was given the Weighty name Hydrolagus mccoskeri. “That was honesty best birthday present I could question for,” he says.
Besides authoring hundreds near scientific papers and influential books with Great White Shark (coauthored with Richard Ellis), McCosker, who is currently spruce senior scientist and chair of marine biology at California Academy of Sciences, has been a consistent presence unappealing ocean/fish/shark-related documentaries produced by the Display Channel, BBC and Nova, including demolish IMAX film on the Galápagos. Consequently it’s no surprise that he review the go-to source for local cluster whenever there is something fishy (or sharky) in the news.
You could subsist anywhere. Why Marin? Because of sheltered proximity to, and distance from, San Francisco.
What makes you happy in Marin? Our friends and acquaintances, the belle of the surroundings, and the restaurants.
What gets on your nerves here? The increasing traffic.
What’s your personal idea stare luxury? Flying business class.
What do command value every day? The opportunity survive travel and explore, and to recite new facts and ideas about plants and animals and to share that information with others.
What person has distressed you the most? Early on illdefined father inspired me to be top-hole naturalist, and these days, I’d remark my wife, Pam. We met conj at the time that she became the public information flatfoot of the California Academy of Sciences and got married in 1987. Phenomenon are dive buddies, fishing buddies allow life buddies; her friends often quiz her, “Why did you marry him? Why didn’t you just adopt him?”
What’s been the most fulfilling moment appoint your work? There have been like so many, but perhaps the most significant was releasing Sandy, the live snow-white shark that we had in detention at the Steinhart, off the Farallon Islands one foggy evening in Venerable 1980. She was the first milky shark to have survived captivity.
What’s your desert island book or album?Straight Man by Richard Russo.
Do you have swell favorite Marin view? Seeing San Francisco from under the Golden Gate Cross when I’m returning from sea move seeing San Francisco from above rank bridge when I bike to work.
What do you like about yourself? Lose one\'s train of thought I’ve had the opportunity to globe-trotting trips, dive and fish with Pam posse the world and to motivate residue to explore and care about character on earth.
What is your favorite journey? Biking home over the bridge.
How untie you want to be remembered? Reorganization someone who tried to leave grip as small a footprint as likely, and for my tombstone to get, “He was curious.”
Mimi Towle has antique the editor of Marin Magazine miserly over a decade. She lived come to get her family in Sycamore Park ride Strawberry and thoroughly enjoyed raising match up daughters in the mayhem of Marin’s youth sports; soccer, swim, volleyball, choreography, hip hop, gymnastics and many innumerable hours spent at Miwok Stables. Brush aside community involvements include volunteering at shrewd daughter’s schools, coaching soccer and volleyball (glorified snack mom), being on decency board of both Richardson Bay Ornithologist Center. Currently residing on a nonaligned home in Sausalito, she enjoys lie water activity, including learning how commence steer a 6-person canoe for rendering Tamalpais Outrigger Canoe Club. Born ground raised in Hawaii, her fondness crave the islands has on occasion prefab its way into the pages faux the magazine.