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Be a Marine Mammal Hero Year-Round

It’s pupping season and that means pups will be pouring through our hospital doors in need of meals and meds. But did you know you can help not only during pupping season, but year-round?

Yes, as a monthly donor, you will help provide fish meals, meds and care for a marine mammal like Magoo so they can regain their strength and return to their ocean home. Then the next month, you will help another patient. And the next month? You will make it possible again!

Plus, new monthly gifts will be matched up to $1,000 when you sign up by Sunday, February 23.

Be a hero year-round
harbor seal, magoo
Joe Pollastro

Joe Pollastro

Response Dispatcher

Joe Pollastro joined The Marine Mammal Center in 2022 as Response Dispatcher, helping take calls from the public on the Center’s animal response hotline. She also helps organize responses and rescues for the Center’s northern range, coordinate animal transport logistics across the California range and support animal releases back to their ocean home. Additionally, she keeps enormous amounts of documentation about the animals we respond to in support of our partner agencies and permits. 

Joe graduated from the University of Washington with her B.S. in Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and a minor in Marine Biology. She has held internships with California Wildlife Center, University of Washington’s Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team, and with Florida Fish and Wildlife as their Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Intern. 

In her free time, Joe loves to bake, hang with her dog, Olive, and go tide-pooling in as many beautiful locations as possible.