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Foss Waterway Seaport
The Foss Waterway Seaport is Puget Sound’s maritime culture, education and event center where families and communities come to discover, explore, work and play. Located on the waterfront in a century-old wooden warehouse, built for cargo arriving by rail and departing by sail during the early years of Tacoma.
Vancouver Tour de Biennale on Global TV
Founder of Tour de Biennale interviewed by Global TV on Sunday August 19th, 2012.
Lockheed Martin Educators’ Day at the Tech Museum of Innovation
Tom Hanks’ award winning IMAX film “Magnificent Desolation”, sponsored by Lockheed Martin at the Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, California) featured hundreds of educators, astronauts and Tom Hanks.
Canadian Children’s Book Centre at Beaty
This event was held in support of The Canadian Children’s Book Centre which is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging, promoting and supporting the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers. This BC festival featured presentations by Shar Levine, President of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Society of BC together with BC science writers of books for children and youth. This event was held in the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Wes Wenhardt and Bep Schippers welcomed participants and arranged for tours of the museum.
A Whale of a Welcome
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum was recently featured by the UNA publication The Campus Resident in their Volume II, Issue 4 for April 2011. Read the full article titled “A Whale of a Welcome” by Scott Steedman here:
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MELTDOWN: Oceans react to climate change
“An in-house curated exhibit on climate change and its impact on the oceans and the Arctic. The exhibit provides a new ‘oceans’ perspective and offers a fresh look at climate change. Visitors can better understand the fundamentals of global warming, explore its impact on the oceans, the Arctic and land environments and find meaningful solutions to encourage change. This exhibit focuses on changing marine ecosystems and tackles such topics as ocean acidification, ocean warming, sea level rise and the uncertain future of Pacific salmon stocks. It also presents information and displays on the changing Arctic.”