Vaquita video

Posted on February 25, 2017 by whaleweb

Year of the Vaquita 2017

This 60 second video created by Oregon Coast Aquarium, part of TEAM VAQUITA, will quickly introduce you to the vaquita and the challenges being addressed by the Year of the Vaquita.

6-12th grade teachers, looking for vaquita-related activities and fact sheets for older students? Visit Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network.

K-5 Teachers, check out our Save the Vaquita K-5 fact sheets and activities. Better yet, enroll in our Celebration of Conservation program to learn more about vaquita, elephant seals, and gray whales.

Video courtesy of the Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network

Creep into the DEEPEND Summer Camps Start MONDAY!

Posted on June 3, 2016 by whaleweb

Kids around the country will discover the amazing research and researchers from the DEEPEND Consortium. We are excited our Virtual Science Team includes kids and camp leaders from:

Adventure Science Center Nashville, Tennessee
Catawba Science Center Hickory, North Carolina
GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico Mobile Alabama
Liberty Science Center Jersey City, New Jersey
Maine Discovery Museum Bangor, Maine
Museum of Discovery and Science Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
Navarre Beach Marine Science Station Navarre Beach, Florida
Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network Newport, Oregon
Pacific Science Center Seattle, Washington
Science Center of Iowa Des Moines, Iowa
Tallahassee Museum Tallahassee, Florida
Univ of Michigan Museum of Natural History Ann Arbor, Michigan

Summer Camps!

Posted on April 21, 2016 by whaleweb

Join us at the DEEPEND. Discover the incredible research, meet the scientists, play games, create crafts and more! Enroll in a Creep into the DEEPEND Summer (or Fall) Camp near you:

Adventure Science Center
- Nashville, Tennessee
Catawba Science Center
- Hickory, North Carolina
GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
- Mobile Alabama
Liberty Science Center
- Jersey City, New Jersey
Maine Discovery Museum
- Bangor, Maine
Museum of Discovery and Science
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Colorado
- Boulder, Colorado
Navarre Beach Marine Science Station
- Navarre Beach, Florida
Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network
- Newport, Oregon
Pacific Science Center
- Seattle, Washington
Science Center of Iowa
- Des Moines, Iowa
Tallahassee Museum
- Tallahassee, Florida
Univ of Michigan Museum of Natural History
- Ann Arbor, Michigan

(Organizations are incorporating and sharing DEEPEND Research within their summer camp program. Summer camp program, topics, title, and registration policies vary depending on the museum, science center, or aquarium. First come first served.)

Creep into the DEEPEND Summer Camps!

Posted on January 17, 2016 by whaleweb

This summer, museums and science centers throughout the country will offer WhaleTimes’ Creep into the DEEPEND summer camps! Meet our amazing DEEPEND scientists, see their photos, videos, play games, make crafts and more. Check back in to find out if your local museum will join us — or ask your local museum or science center if they’ll be offering Creep into the DEEPEND as part of their summer camp fun.

Postcard from the DEEPEND: Something Scary for Halloween Pt 2

Posted on October 31, 2015 by whaleweb

Did you identify the scariest thing in the sea? Did you guess jelly, ctenophore, or maybe a salp?

You’d be wrong. One of the scariest things in the sea is trash that escapes from our homes, schools, and lives. If it’s hard for us to identify, you can see why animals like sea turtles, seabirds and others accidently eat trash.