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Be a Marine Mammal Hero

Hungry pups like elephant seal Davey are pouring through our doors. Yes, we are in the swing of pupping season, and that’s why your help is urgently needed.

What if I told you there’s a simple way you can have double the impact for good?

Today, your gift will help provide what a pup like Davey needs: double the fish meals to regain his strength for a second chance at life. How? Because your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $5,000 when you give by Sunday, June 1.

Double my impact!
Elephant seal pup, Davey
Giancarlo Rulli

Giancarlo Rulli

Associate Director, Public Relations

Seeing the emergent impacts of climate change on ocean health and human interaction on our state’s wildlife up close has had a profound impact on my life. By working at the world's largest marine mammal hospital, I believe I can help make a difference in finding solutions to these complex and challenging issues.

Giancarlo joined The Marine Mammal Center as a Youth Crew animal care volunteer in 2004. His two decades of volunteer experience, coupled with his radio career, has given him a unique perspective on storytelling and helps him highlight the Center’s critical mission work in an easy-to-understand manner.  

As Associate Director of Public Relations, Giancarlo manages PR strategy, media interviews and onsite visits, the science journalism internship program, as well as photo and documentary/commercial film shoots. He also drafts and coordinates public relations materials including press releases and media alerts, collaborating with partners including NOAA Fisheries, the California Academy of Sciences and U.S. Fish & Wildlife. 

Before joining the Center in a staff role, Giancarlo served as a producer at KGMZ and KCBS Radio, where he produced an Associated Press award-winning three-part investigative series on rail bridge safety. He holds a degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Giancarlo currently resides with his wife in Sonoma County. When not at the Center, you’re likely to find him wading out into a river to fly fish for native trout and steelhead.

Areas of Expertise

  • Public and Media Relations
  • Broadcast Journalism
  • Conservation Storytelling
  • Marine Mammal Husbandry
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