Aquarium of the Pacific

2009

November

• THERMOREGULATION

• Telling Whales Apart

• Halloween Day at the Aquarium of the Pacific

October

• When a Fin Whale Flukes

• SAN GABRIEL RIVER SEA TURTLE OBSERVATION UPDATE

• How Many Whales Did We Spot this Summer?

• THE SURPRISE SEA FARE ARTIST IS: MILLER THE SEA LION!

• Sneak Peak at Sea Lion Art

• Orcas on the Way?

September

• Paintings by Sea Lions

• Blue Whale Season Isn’t Over Yet!

• Caring For A Tiger Shark

• Early Morning at the Aquarium of the Pacific

• Something I’ve Only Ever Talked About…Until Now!

August

• Hugh’s Top Ten Reasons For Volunteering 5000 Hours At The Aquarium Of The Pacific

• How Do Whales Nurse? Let’s Find Out!

• Feeding Time With Our New Tiger Shark

• CHECKING OUT THE SEA OTTERS

• A Message to our RSS Subscribers

July

• Miller the Sea Lion’s 29th Birthday

• When Bottlenose and Risso’s Dolphins Mix!

• New Look for the Tropical Pacific Gallery

• SEA LION HIGH ENERGY BEHAVIORS

• A Lecture Night at the Aquarium

• A Rare Sighting So Early in the Season

• SEA OTTER ICE ENRICHMENT

June

• “Where Can I Get One of Those?”

• Getting Questions Answered About Blue Whales from an Expert

• AQUARIUM CRITTERS IN SLOW MOTION

• Brook Has Soft Paws, and Other Things I’ve Noticed About the Aquarium’s Sea Otters

May

• Follow That Bird!

• Shark Summer with the Horn Shark

• Celebrating Ellie the Harbor Seal’s 20th Birthday

• Dolphins, Dolphins, AND MORE DOLPHINS!

• The Pinniped Exhibit by the Numbers and Ellie the Seal’s Upcoming Birthday

• Keeping Busy During The Long Beach Grand Prix

April

• Flippers, Fins, and Flukes, OH MY!

• GRAND PRIX WEEKEND—SPENDING QUALITY TIME WITH THE CRITTERS OF THE AQUARIUM

• Gray Whales Traveling on the 405 Freeway

• Jewels of Our Local Waters

• Getting to Know Brook the Sea Otter

• Join Kera and Alicia as They Report on the Aquarium’s Whale Watching Endeavors!

March

• Brushing Shelby the Harbor Seal’s Teeth

• The Pacific Seahorse

• Notes from an Encounter with a Stejneger’s Beaked Whale

• Introducing Aquarist Volunteer Chris Corpus

February

• PARKER THE SEA LION FINDS HIS BARK

• 25 Random Things About The Aquarium Of The Pacific

• LORIKEET HAPPY HOUR

January

• Hugging A Seal

• RESCUING AN ENTANGLED GRAY WHALE

2008

December

• Green Snowflakes

• Shelby the Harbor Seal

• Parker The Sea Lion Gets Airborne

November

• Just a trim

• Being secretary of Marine Conservation Research Institute is interesting, educational

• How To Pet A Porcupine

• Animal Spotlight:  Meet Tito the Prehensile-tailed Porcupine

• Endangered Sea Turtle Released Back Into The Wild

October

• A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH BOBCATS

• Keith

• Volunteers share their love of the Aquarium and its animals with public

• GETTING “THIGGY” WITH MILO THE SEA LION

• Giving Aquarium Tours is an enjoyable pastime

September

• FROM SEA TO CEMENT-A Walk Along The San Gabriel River

• Green Team Field Trip to Santa Barbara Zoo

• NOTES FROM THE RIVER

• Animal Spotlight:  The California Desert Tortoise

• Reflections of earlier times at the Aquarium of the Pacific

August

• Random Notes From An Aquarium Volunteer

• Animal Encounter: Sharks!

• New babies have arrived!

• It ain’t easy bein’ green… or is it?

• Improbable Residents: The Sea Turtles of the San Gabriel River

• Big Mouths, Huge Appetites

• ‘Not Seen, Not Heard, But Felt’ Sculpture Soon to Adorn Shark Lagoon

July

• BLUE WHALE FLUKE PRINTS AND POOP PRINTS

• Coral reefs can be saved by reducing, reusing, recycling … and rethinking!

• Remembering Grand Opening Day

• Where Are the Sea Turtles?

• 10 Year Anniversary Blog - Claudia Harden

• Independence Day fun at the Aquarium of the Pacific

• TOPAZ: THE CAT THAT THE AQUARIUM WAS BUILT AROUND

June

• Party, party, party at the Aquarium of the Pacific

• BEFORE THE AQUARIUM—-A Quick Long Beach History Lesson

• The ABC’s of Filtration at the Aquarium

• Ocean on the Edge

• HUGH’S TOP TEN AQUARIUM MEMORIES AND EXPERIENCES

May

• Would you like soup with that?

• It’s so nice to be appreciated!

• Make Way For Ducklings

• Leading an Animal Encounter:  Sea Otters

• Teamwork between agencies makes port area safer

• Everybody, lets welcome Ginger Bling!

• The Seal that Rescued a Rescuer

April

• Chickens aren’t the only ones

• Water Works:  Where Our Water Comes From

• SKIPPY THE MUDSKIPPER

• Egg identification

• Lorikeets are loads of colorful fun!