No matter where you are in New England, there are businesses – small and large – that have evolved around links with the ocean. Fishing and whaling concentrated expertise in boat building, rigging, navigating, processing and marketing. Marine industries continue to evolve to meet the challenges of food and energy production, port & maritime security, and research. Join Susan Peterson, Ph.D., for a talk about the marine industries that have shaped New Bedford, our region and New England!

Susan Peterson has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii.  Susan worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for over ten years, specializing in ocean policy, and several years at Boston University in the same role. Most of her work was quantifying and qualifying commercial and recreational fishing effort so that the cultural, social and economic motivations for fishing could be incorporated into fishery management decisions.  In the mid-1980s, she left academia for industry.  She founded and was President of Ecological Engineering Associates (EEA), a company that uses natural systems for wastewater treatment, from which she retired in 1998 to do full-time consulting.

The Ocean Explorium presents "Once Upon a Tide"

Join us at the Ocean Explorium
Thursday, August 14
for a special screening of "Once Upon a Tide"

"Once Upon a Tide" is a fictional narrative that blends the moral and visual elements of a mystical fairy tale to inspire the importance of ocean conservation.  Narrated by Academy-Award winner Linda Hunt, this modern day fable is an innovative educational approach to ocean and human health.

Screening schedule:  5:30  6:30  7:30*

*Explore key issues at a post-screening panel discussion with notable scientists and filmmakers, including:

John Farrington, Ph. D., Scientist Emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Kathleen Frith, Assistant Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Jennifer Gavin, Scientist and Filmmaker at reelblue, LLC

Judy Mc Dowell, Ph.D, Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Ocean Explorium’s Executive Director

WOW Mobile on Purchase Street!  Have you touched a critter lately?

Discover marine life, up close and personal as the WOW Mobile sets up shop on Purchase Street!

Origami sharks and penguins take shape at our outdoor creative stations!

Ocean Explorium Executive Director, Mark Smith, tells all. Are sharks really dangerous? Who eats whom? Can sharks fly!?! Find out the answer to these and other sharky questions from a guy who grew up on a sheep station in outback Australia!

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Dive deep with Mark Smith to better understand these magnificent, but misunderstood creatures of the sea. Mark has designed and managed world-class zoological, educational, and research institutions, such as the L’Aquárium de Barcelona and the Oceanário de Lisboa. He has established marine research and marine education programs, and he was contributing editor on the first book about “how to care for sharks”. He likes sharks. 

See the Ocean Explorium on Opening Day!