Nicole Marie Teutschel at Año Nuevo State Reserve, CA-- Last winter 5 female weanling elephant seals were satellite tagged at Año Nuevo State Reserve in Northern California. Elephant seal weanlings are only 27 days old at weaning, and fast for 1-2 months before leaving the warm sand at Año Nuevo for the cold, harsh North Pacific Ocean.

Jane Stevens at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - In case you missed seeing this video of the baby white shark who was released from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, it's worth taking a look. He ate salmon steaks -- "restaurant quality" -- which were suspended from a pole by a thread. That diet helped him grow 13 inches in the six months he lived at the aquarium. Here's the link to the video.

Don Kohrs at Hopkins Marine Station. While Charles Gardner was taking a walk with his wife, he stumbled across one of the pop-up satellite tags -- #06A0555 -- that Sal Jorgensen attached to a white shark last year near the Farallon Islands. Here's how Charles tells the story:

Sal Jorgensen, Gulf of the Farallones. After three weeks of challenging weather, on Sunday we finally had one of those rare days in the Farallones with sunshine, clear water, and no wind. Luck was really with us -- in addition to the conditions being just right, we were fortunate to witness white sharks feeding. In the Fall, thousands of elephant seals and sea lions haul out on the rocky shore of the Farallon Islands and white sharks gather here to patrol the surrounding waters for their next meal.

October. White shark tagging month at TOPP. It's notoriously a bad-weather month. No wonder that white shark researcher Sal Jorgenson and the rest of the white-shark tag team have made it past the Golden Gate Bridge only 13.5 out of 25 days so far. They're not too disappointed, though. They've attached 10 pop-up satellite tags to the sharks. Those tags automatically release from the shark after a pre-progammed time.....anywhere from 30 days to a year. Our star white shark, Omoo, wore a pop-up tag for a year, and that's his track that you see on TOPP.org's home page.