The Seymour Marine Discovery Center launched a new podcast Tuesday to connect Santa Cruz County’s scientists, problem-solvers and community members. While the new show spotlights local environmental success stories, the studio itself offers an inclusive space for anyone in the community to record and share their message, conservation-focused or not.
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Seymour Marine Discovery Center prepares for biggest exhibition update since its opening 25 years ago: See More HQ
For the first time since opening 25 years ago, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center will debut a new permanent exhibit this spring, See More HQ, designed to position the center as a collaborative hub connecting local scientists, community groups and the public around coastal resilience.
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Seymour Center now open daily for summer visitors
To accommodate summer visitors, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center is now open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Aug. 4.
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The science of saving Ms. Blue: Seymour Center’s 87-foot whale gets an eco-friendly makeover
Scientists at UC Santa Cruz and local entrepreneurs are collaborating on a $350,000 restoration of the Seymour Center’s blue whale skeleton using innovative, eco-friendly techniques like shrimp-shell putty and 3D-printed recycled plastic.
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Seymour Center’s Ms. Blue comes to life in new augmented reality experience
Visitors to Santa Cruz’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center can experience the iconic whale skeleton known as Ms. Blue as augmented reality on their phones while the bones undergo a lengthy restoration process.
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Can the smell of fog help fight climate change? UCSC professor thinks we need art to get serious about climate change
Jennifer Parker writes research papers with algae. Yes, you read that right. The UC Santa Cruz professor of digital media (and her partners) consider algae a collaborator and teacher. But learning from nature is only one of her creative methods. Parker founded OpenLab at UCSC 10 years ago to inspire interdisciplinary collaboration, because, she believes, it will take both science and the senses to explain climate change to the public and inspire action to protect the planet. Scientists, she says, have been in charge for the past 100 years, “and it’s not working.”
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Ms. Blue is coming down — what happened to Seymour Center’s iconic whale skeleton and what’s next
After taking a beating from the elements at UC Santa Cruz’s coastal campus, the structure supporting the blue whale skeleton affectionately known as Ms. Blue has been deemed unsafe. But fear not, says Seymour Marine Discovery Center director Jonathan Hicken — the bones are staying, and the center wants input on the next chapter of the whale’s legacy.
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Imagining a new Seymour Center as climate change, and time, drive new realities
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center at UC Santa Cruz’s coastal campus is gearing up to revamp its visitor exhibits and experience. New executive director Jonathan Hicken hopes the center will become a hub for local leaders and community members to contribute to climate change resilience.
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Talking climate change in Santa Cruz wouldn’t be complete without some focus on how it will affect waves
Borja Reguero, a UCSC associate researcher who has studied the impact of the warming climate on wave energy, will be one of several speakers at the Confronting Climate Change Conference hosted by UC Santa Cruz starting Thursday. It will focus on climate change impacts on the central coast and highlight the work of local activists, artists and researchers like Reguero.