What a fun potluck last week!  The Ocean Sciences Club wrapped up the school year with dinner, games and a Skype connection with JOIDES Resolution, a research vessel conducting sea floor studies in the Gulf of Alaska.

We’ll keep you posted on the start date of club meetings again this fall!  To be added to our email list please email us: education@alaskasealife.org

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This week at Ocean Sciences Club our guests were Alaska SeaLife Center researchers John Maniscalco and Pam Parker from the Chiswell project.  Chiswell is the longest running research project at the Center, observing Steller sea lions at the Chiswell Island rockery near Resurrection Bay.  After learning about why the scientists are interested in studying sea lions students got the scoop on  what’s been learned so far.  Next, they went behind the scences to try their hand at operating the cameras and identifying individual sea lions.  

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Show your love for our OCEAN by helping to clean our waterways!

Looking for a fun family event?  Why not participate in the Resurrection Bay Conservation Alliance beach cleanup event on May 18th.  

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For more information visit the link above, or email Tim Johnson:  

johnsonkeagle@arctic.net

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This week at Ocean Sciences Club our topic was thermoregulation.  Our guest presenter was Dr. Jo-Ann Mellish, a Marine Mammal Scientist at the Center.  Everyone had a great time learning about what it’s like to do research in Antarctica, where Dr. Mellish spends her Antarctic summers studying Weddell seals.  You can check out more videos from her project here: 

http://www.youtube.com/user/MellishB470

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What do you love most about the ocean?

On April 20th members of our Education team joined the Seward Seventh graders had tour of the bay on Kenai Fjords Tours marine science boat.  We had a great time!  That night at our club meeting our focus was on why we appreciate the ocean.  Club members wrote poems, drew pictures and recorded video describing what they loved most about living near the ocean.
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Plastic can be problematic!   When plastic ends up in the ocean it poses a threat to animals. Members of the ocean sciences club are committed to keep trash out of the oceans by recycling and picking up trash they see.  At ocean sciences club this week our focus was on ways that we can care for the environment.  Ask a club member to share their ideas with you!   Check out the plastic bag jellies we made!  After learning about sea jelly anatomy students were challenged to make their own, anatomically correct jellies, using only reused, recyclable grocery bags.   Marine animals may mistake plastic bags for food.  Plastic bags provide no usable calories, and can clog the stomachs of animals.  Why not reuse or recycle your plastic bags, better yet bring your own reusable shopping bags  next time you head to the store.   Come check out our plastic bag jelly art on display in the Center’s Discovery Classroom the weekend of April 6th.  After that they’re headed for the recycle!

Plastic can be problematic!   When plastic ends up in the ocean it poses a threat to animals. Members of the ocean sciences club are committed to keep trash out of the oceans by recycling and picking up trash they see.  At ocean sciences club this week our focus was on ways that we can care for the environment.  Ask a club member to share their ideas with you!  

Check out the plastic bag jellies we made!  After learning about sea jelly anatomy students were challenged to make their own, anatomically correct jellies, using only reused, recyclable grocery bags.  

Marine animals may mistake plastic bags for food.  Plastic bags provide no usable calories, and can clog the stomachs of animals.  Why not reuse or recycle your plastic bags, better yet bring your own reusable shopping bags  next time you head to the store.  

Come check out our plastic bag jelly art on display in the Center’s Discovery Classroom the weekend of April 6th.  After that they’re headed for the recycle!

2 months ago

Otter on the move!

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At our meeting last week, club members took on an important task- helping to brainstorm names for a sea otter pup.  The group had the chance to travel behind-the-scenes with Husbandry Director, Brett Long to meet and learn more about the animal.  Next they set to work coming up with some great names!  

Just hours after the club met the otter she made her move to her permanent home in Vancouver, BC.  Our club’s name suggestions were passed on to staff at the Vancouver Aquarium, and now it’s the world’s turn to vote!  

Will she be called Katmai, Susitna or Glacier?

Visit these links to learn more!

http://www.vanaqua.org/join/support/how-to-donate/rescued-sea-otter-pup

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Vancouver+Aquarium+holds+Twitter+vote+name+rescued+otter/8140538/story.html

2 months ago

February’s club highlights included a side-by-side Humboldt squid and giant Pacific octopus dissection!

3 months ago

What better to learn about octopus than to get up close and personal!  This week the club worked with ASLC aquarists, Chuck and Amy to learn about the unique adaptations of Giant Pacific Octopus.

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Coming this week- more CEPHALOPODS!

Check out this cool article about LuLu the octopus from the Pheonix Log!  Bring all your questions about Giant Pacific octopus to our next club meeting- you’ll get to ask an aquarist!

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No Ocean Sciences Club meeting on February 6th!

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Tsunami Bowl is March 8-10th right here in SEWARD!  Club members- it’s not too late to sign up to volunteer as a RUNNER!

Tsunami Bowl is March 8-10th right here in SEWARD!  Club members- it’s not too late to sign up to volunteer as a RUNNER!

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The buzz around Ocean Sciences Club?  New CLUB T-shirts!  Be on the look out for club members sporting the shirts around town next week! Special thank you to club sponsors: Seward Community Foundation, Alaska Airlines and American Seafoods Company !

The buzz around Ocean Sciences Club?  New CLUB T-shirts!  Be on the look out for club members sporting the shirts around town next week!

Special thank you to club sponsors: Seward Community Foundation, Alaska Airlines and American Seafoods Company !

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