He co-wrote "Sea of Cortez" with marine biologist Edward Ricketts, the model for Doc in "Cannery Row"
In addition to Steinbeck and 
Ricketts's co-written voyage of discovery, The Log from the Sea of Cortez... [DOC] [TLE] Cannery Row Foundation [PAR] the Kalisa Moore "Queen of Cannery Row" Memorial across from Doc's Lab, ... 
not a word about the Lab by whoever wrote the opus obit.