Patrick Webster

Area of Residence: Moss Landing, CA

Pat Webster is a marine media-man politely pushing pixels out of Monterey Bay, California. A fervent evan-jelly-ist in the kelp kathedral, he first dove into underwater photography via UC Santa Cruz’s scientific diving program—the birthplace of his online alter-ego @underwaterpat. Buoyed all the way by the amazing community of aquatic artists in the Monterey diving community, Pat’s coldwater captures and debilitating word asso-sea-ocean syndrome have been the hallmarks of an eclectic and award-winning science-communication career from The Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, and now National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions as a polar diving naturalist. His pun-ishing piscine portfolio includes The New York Times, The Nature Conservancy, TEDx, Scuba Diving Magazine, PBS, BBC, Netflix and most recently this here pamphlet. He has been awarded in competition by Underwater Photographer of the Year, Big Picture, The United Nations, and (most proudly) is a two-time overall winner of the Monterey Shootout. Pat’s favorite thing is to help connect his fellow Earthlings with the Inner Space of Planet Ocean, all with a little kelp from our fronds.