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• 12/3/2010

  A Week of Online Holiday Deals Returns!

  Tis the season to be giving, and the National Aquarium is onboard! In celebration of its 30th anniversary year the Aquarium is giving fans and followers an opportunity to swim into a sea of savings with a week of online holiday deals and discounts.

• 11/2/2010

  National Aquarium Searches for Florida Manatee

  The National Aquarium continues to monitor Baltimore area waterways for a wayward manatee after receiving another report late last week of a manatee sighting in the upper Patapsco River area.

  

• 9/2/2010

  National Aquarium Launches Conservation Center

  The National Aquarium was joined today by honored guests, esteemed partners, elected officials and supporters from the community to officially unveil the National Aquarium Conservation Center and kick off its celebration of the Baltimore venue’s 30th anniversary year.

• 8/11/2010

  Hope Floats in Baltimore’s Harbor

  After several years of planning, the National Aquarium and the City of Baltimore have installed a floating wetland in the Harbor! This pilot project attempts to investigate the potential of a new harbor restoration approach for habitat and water quality improvement using floating wetlands.

  

• 8/2/2010

  Sherman’s Lagoon opens at the National Aquarium, Washington

  This past weekend, the National Aquarium, Washington, DC hosted its annual Shark weekend celebration and introduced its newest exhibit, Sherman’s Lagoon. The permanent exhibit is home to Sherman the Shark, a popular character created by nationally syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, and is dedicated to the Aquarium’s important work on shark education and conservation.

  

• 7/19/2010

  National Aquarium Celebrates YouthWorks Program

  Baltimore City’s Congressional Delegation was thanked by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today for their unrelenting support of the YouthWorks summer jobs program during a press conference held at the National Aquarium.

  

• 7/13/2010

  National Aquarium Initiates Natural Resource Damage Assessment for Sarasota Bay Ecosystem

  The National Aquarium, in collaboration with Mote Marine Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University, is conducting a comprehensive study designed to ensure that pre- and post- Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact status of Sarasota Bay is documented as rigorously as possible.

• 6/22/2010

  Chevrolet signs as Aquarium’s Official Conservation Vehicle, helps return turtles to sea

  Three endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were escorted from Baltimore to the southern tip of Maryland in a new 2010 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid – the Official Conservation Vehicle of the National Aquarium – and released into the Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout State Park in Scotland, Maryland. The successful transfer and release marks the first of many animal rescue efforts that will take place as part of an ongoing partnership between the National Aquarium and Chevrolet.

  

• 6/17/2010

  National Aquarium’s Commitment to Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico

  You can’t go far without hearing about the oil spill disaster still unfolding in the Gulf, and it has been deeply disturbing to watch as gallons and gallons of oil are being pushed into that irreplaceable ecosystem each second. As an active member of the Northeast Region Stranding Network we are closely connected to the Federal, State, and local agencies and non-governmental entities responding to this disaster.

• 5/14/2010

  Hastings the Seal Returns to Sea

  National Aquarium staff and volunteers were joined by community members on the beach in Ocean City, Maryland to help “Hastings” the harbor seal with his oceanic return!