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Craig Heberer

Bites, Cameras, Action: Tracing Tuna Catch, Hook to Dock

Craig Heberer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 20, 2018. Heberer is deputy director of the Nature Conservancy’s Indo-Pacific Tuna Program.
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California Drought: Live Webcast with Weather Experts

NOAA National Weather Service Science and Operations Officer John Dumas and General Manager of the Long Beach Water Department Kevin Wattier discuss California’s drought, its connections to heavy winter storms on the country's East Coast, and how the drought is impacting Southern California.
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Wonders of the Deep Gallery Tour

Immerse yourself in our new special exhibit, Wonders of the Deep.

Our new special exhibit Wonders of the Deep sets the scene with unusual animals, vivid wall projections, sound, lighting, and interactive computer displays.
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The Flamboyant Cuttlefish

A master of disguise!

Clever, showy, and masters of disguise, these tiny predators may be unable to hide from their most serious threat.
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Ginger Rebstock

Magellanic Penguins: Wildlife Spectacles and Long-Term Studies

The Penguin Sentinels project, a joint endeavor of the University of Washington and the Wildlife Conservation Society, is a long-term study that has followed the world’s largest breeding colony of Magellanic Penguins at Punta Tombo, Argentina since 1983.
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David Salomon

Penguin-Pedia

David Salomon began compiling his Penguin-Pedia after a trip to Chilean Patagonia that inspired his interest in penguins.
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Linda McDermott

Antarctica: Living at the Harshest Place on Earth

Travel to the coldest, windiest, harshest, driest place on Earth with Linda McDermott, who worked at McMurdo and South Pole Stations in Antarctica during two summer seasons.
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The Snowy Egret

Elegance, grace and tenacity in white

Found throughout the western hemisphere, this elegant and graceful bird possesses some unique survival skills.
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P. Dee Boersma, Ph.D.

The Penguins of Patagonia

For twenty-eight years P. Dee Boersma, Ph.D., has studied the largest Magellanic Penguin colony in the world at Punta Tombo, Argentina.
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Jay Holcomb

Rehabilitating Oiled Penguins During the Treasure Oil Spill in South Africa

The largest oiled wildlife rescue and rehabilitation effort ever mounted took place in 2000 in South Africa when an iron ore ship, the Treasure, sank between the two largest breeding islands for African Penguins.
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Hurricane Sandy and Aquarium’s NOAA Science on a Sphere™

Interview on KNX 1070 News Radio / CBSLA.com

KNX Reporter Ron Kilgore recently joined NOAA National Weather Service Meteorologist Mark Jackson at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
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Sharks, the most feared predator

Hunter or hunted?

"Shark!" The mere word evokes fear in many people! In recent history, shark attack upon humans has been one of the most feared (and most misunderstood) natural dangers to man. In reality, it is the shark that has become the hunted.
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Rosi Dagit

Penguins in our Watershed? Adventures in Antarctica and the Santa Monica Mountains

Rosit Dagit, who spoke at the Aquarium about the impact of climate change on sensitive species on September 1, 2011, has been a researcher with the non-profit research and education foundation Oceanites and the Antarctic Site Inventory since its inception in 1994 and a senior conservation biologist with the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains since 1988.
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The Arctic Fox

Resilient and adaptable as it is, will the arctic fox be able to survive the challenges ahead?

The IUCN lists the Arctic Fox as one of the species most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in its environment.
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Magellanic Penguin

Spheniscus Magellanicus, A Penguin for All Seasons

Throughout history, penguins have captured the hearts and imagination of people of all ages. Comical and endearing, our perception of this awkward creature belies its amazing abilities to survive in the ocean and on land.

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