Free Skidaway Marine Science Day 2015, Skidaway Is., Savannah, Oct. 24 2015
This free campus-wide open house at The UGA Marine Extension Service & Aquarium on Skidaway Island offers activities geared for all ages. Programs, tours, displays and hands-on activities, primarily related to marine science and the coastal environment, are all part of the day’s educational fun.
Open to the public at no charge, the event is presented by the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, the University of Georgia’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium, the University of Georgia’s Shellfish Research Laboratory and Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary.
One of the most exciting featured attractions this year will be a close-up look at Georgia’s first oyster hatchery, a project of the UGA Marine Extension’s Shellfish Research Laboratory and Georgia Sea Grant, units of UGA Public Service and Outreach.
Other activities include tours of the 92-foot Research Vessel Savannah, fun hands-on exhibits at the UGA Aquarium, and explorations of an underwater reef at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary.
When: Saturday, October 24 2015
Time: Noon – 4PM
Learn more here.
All activities at Skidaway Marine Science Day are free.
For additional information, call 912-598-2325, or seehttp://www.skio.uga.edu/
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
CONTINUOUS ACTIVITIES NOON – 4 pm
Jay Wolf Nature Trail, Interpretive Cabin, Learning Garden
UGA Aquarium Open 10 am-5 pm / Free Admission & Special Activities Noon-4 pm
Behind the scenes peeks at the Aquarium. Every 20 minutes (12 –4 pm) – pick up your FREE ticket in the lobby to reserve your time!
New Touch Tank Display (Aquarium)
Touch Tanks (Aquarium Day Group Room)
Phytoplankton Lab Demo (Aquarium Plankton Lab)
Invertebrate Explorations (Aquarium Invertebrate Lab)
Dock Discoveries (Aquarium Dock) – Learn more about organisms found in our estuary and get your hands wet at a stingray touch tank!
Interactive Reptile Exhibit – Meet and greet some common reptiles of the Georgia coast (MAREX screened porch)
Oyster Hatchery Display and Hatchery Tours (Shellfish Parking Lot)
PhotoBooth (McGowan Library auditorium)
Plankton World & CytoSense (Library overhang & lobby)
Build a Plankton (Tent outside McGowan Library)
Plankton Sink-Off (Tent outside McGowan Library) A Sink-Off round every 30 minutes
Environmental Group Exhibits (Skidaway Institute Quad)
Tours of Research Vessel Savannah (Skidaway Institute Dock)
Microbe Hunt – Grab a swab and find the microbes in the world around you. (Skidaway Institute
Quad)
Gray’s Reef’s “Fly an Underwater ROV” — (Skidaway Institute Quad)
SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES
12:30 pm – Fish Feeding (Aquarium)
12:45 pm – Science Talk (Skidaway Institute Quad) “Arctic Carbon Cycling”
1:00 pm – Fish Feeding (Aquarium)
1:15 pm – Science Talk (Skidaway Institute Quad) “Sea Level Rise”
1:30 pm – Fish Feeding (Aquarium)
1:45 pm — Science Talk (Skidaway Institute Quad) “Underwater Robots”
2:00 pm – Fish Feeding (Aquarium)
2:00 pm – Science Talk (MCSRIC Conference Room) “Your tax dollars at work”
2:15 pm – Science Talk (Skidaway Institute Quad) “How do phytoplankton smell?”
2:30 pm – Fish Feeding (Aquarium)
2:45 pm – Science Talk (Skidaway Institute Quad) “Black Gill in Georgia Shrimp”
3:00 pm – Fish Feeding (Aquarium)
3:15 pm – Science Talk (Skidaway Institute Quad) “Weather Reports from Inside the Ocean”
UGA Marine Extension Service & Skidaway Aquarium, 30 Ocean Science Circle, Savannah, (912) 598-2496, http://marex.uga.edu/aquarium/
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