January 21, 2017
Everybody love sweets so do oysters, clams and mussels. Join us as we meet with Dr. Emmanuelle Pales Espinosa from Stony Brook University and learn how these fantastic organisms feed but also how they select their food from a complex plankton mix with no eyes, no hands, no nose and no taste buds.
Enjoy hands on activities and video.
100 minutes to clean up water. Video by E. Pales Espinosa.
Due to the weather, Saturday 17th of December event was postponed to January……stay tuned
Credit: http://www.allatsea.net/product/snowman-nautical-christmas-card/
Dr. Brad Peterson and Ph.D. student Stephen Heck presenting their research to curious and excited visitors on Saturday 19th of November. Children and their family had the opportunity to observe and touch oysters, scallops, clams and oyster toadfish, amazing seagrass creatures.
November 19th 2016
Pr. Brad Peterson from Stony Brook University is our next guest. Brad research is focused on understanding the role of organisms in changing nutrient availability within their communities and how these interactions might affect community development and stability.
Enjoy a hands-on presentation and Q&A session with Brad and his team.
Picture and more information on Brad activities available @ http://you.stonybrook.edu/theawesomepeterson/
Isn’t it wonderful to observe penguins with specialists that respond all your questions? What a great adventure!
October 15 2016
As fall arrives on Long Island, spring is warming up in the Southern Hemisphere and penguins from Africa to Antarctica are getting into high gear for the breeding season. Learn all about penguins, their behavior and diet and life cycle, and meet local scientists working in Antarctica to better understand and protect these amazing creatures.
Do not miss Dr. Heather Lynch on October 15th, the Penguin expert from Stony brook University.
Picture and more information available @ https://lynchlab.com/ and
http://you.stonybrook.edu/somasmcp/faculty/lynch/
Pr. Dianna Padilla and her team informed enthusiastic visitors about invasive species and how we can all limit the spread of these unwelcome guests. Dianna nicely distributed the children’s book Fish Invaders at Gypsy Point: Katie and George Learn About Alternatives to Aquarium Dumping by Grace V. Nimnualrat, Anne Marie Wotkyns, George H. Zaleski, Linda Walters, University of Central Floridaand Susan Zaleski.
What a great success!
Dr. Janet Nye and graduate students Emily Markowitz, Haikun Xu, Hanlu Huang and Teresa Schwemmer (Stony Brook University) at Long Island Aquarium on Saturday 20th August. They braved the storm and spent wonderful time with Girls Scouts and many excited visitors.
August 20, 2016 @ 1:00pm – How climate change will affect fish and fisheries
Janet Nye, Stony Brook University: Climate change may seem like something that will happen in the distant future. However, the ocean is already warming and fish are already responding in a variety of ways. Many fish species, including many that we find in Long Island, are changing their migration patterns and/or have become more or less abundant. These changes are not temporary and will continue along this trajectory, meaning that the people that rely on fish (fishermen, anglers, fish-consumers and fish-lovers) must adapt too. In this talk, I will show you some of the changes in fishes that we have seen in the last 50 years and what we might expect to happen in the future.
Credit: Janet Nye Lab: https://you.stonybrook.edu/jnye/pictures/
Nils Volkenborn and Ph.D student Ian Dwyer (Stony Brook University) at Long Island Aquarium this week end, unraveling the secret life of buried marine animals (7/16/16).