Today is Fintastic Friday!

Posted on May 13, 2016 by whaleweb

Happy Fintastic Friday. Together we can save sharks, skates, and ray!

Fintastic Friday is here!

Posted on May 10, 2016 by whaleweb

Friday May 13, 2016 is an important holiday, Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks, Skates, and Rays a Voice!

WhaleTimes created Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks, Skates, and Rays a Voice to help raise awareness and encourage advocacy to protect elasmobranchs. This special annual holiday is celebrated worldwide.

Humans are not doing their job to protect sharks. Movies, books, and news outlets have created and perpetuated a false, but stereotypical view of sharks. This misguided hatred has caused a lack of compassion or understanding about sharks’ significant role in the health of the ocean. People hear even less about skates and rays.

On average, only 10 people are killed by sharks a year — in the entire world. BUT people kill more than 11,000 sharks EVERY HOUR of every day. Can you imagine people remaining mum if that number were whales? Dolphins? Penguins? Or some other popular species? Never.

We’ll say it again, People are not doing their best to protect sharks.

WhaleTimes believes kids are the future of sharks. No one is louder and more enthusiastic than a kid who cares. Kids love sharks. They haven’t seen the movies or heard the skewed, sensationalized, and poorly researched news clips. We want kids from all over the world cheering, SAVE THE SHARKS on this special holiday and every day.

Find out how to celebrate and protect sharks today!

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.)

Oceanscape Network highlights WhaleTimes Director

Posted on April 11, 2016 by whaleweb

Congratulations to our very own Ruth A. Musgrave for her efforts in shark and ocean conservation, her new book MISSION: SHARK RESCUE (National Geographic Children’s Books March 2016) and for being highlighted by Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network as part of their S.T.E.A.M. Powered: Profiles in Science, Creativity and Exploration.

This multi-part series features five women who are at the tops of their fields in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Over the 2015-16 school year, one week will be dedicated to each person, highlighting their education, careers and innovative contributions to their various disciplines — including the discovery of new species, the exploration of hostile ecosystems and the conservation of marine species.

This week, schools are encouraged to submit students’ questions to Ruth via the Oceanscape Network.

Ruth is also sharing her shark conservation message with students throughout Oregon as part of a community service effort with Barnes and Noble (Tualatin) and throughout the world through Skype interviews.

Go Ruth. And thank you for helping raise awareness of sharks.

We sure have a lot to celebrate this year for Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks, Skates, and Rays a Voice. Don’t forget to celebrate with us on May 13.

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.

Women in Ocean Science honored…

Posted on November 18, 2015 by whaleweb

Throughout 2015 and 2016, Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network is honoring five amazing women helping to explore, study, and save the ocean — including WhaleTimes’ very own Ruth A. Musgrave and Tamara Frank.

Through Oceanscape’s S.T.E.A.M. Powered: Profiles in Science, Creativity and Exploration meet manta ray expert Andrea Marshall, deep-sea explorer Edith Widder, crustacean expert Heather Bracken-Grissom, vision and bioluminescence of deep-sea animals expert Tamara Frank, and award-winning children’s author Ruth A. Musgrave. Congratulations to all of you and thank you for inspiring others!
Find out more about each of these innovative women helping to save the ocean visit Oregon Coast Aquarium’s Oceanscape Network

Congratulations to Ruth and Tammy!

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WhaleTimes Director and children’s author, Ruth A. Musgrave

Deep-sea explorer Tamara Frank

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.