The Whale Museum's Summer Lecture Series

July 14, 7:00 PM - Summer Lecture Series: Our Local Gray Whales: Children’s Book & Science Chat, The Whale Museum & YouTube

Nora Nickum and Cindy Hansen present “Our Local Gray Whales: Children’s Book & Science Chat”. Join us and meet our local Sounders gray whales! Learn about our annual gray whale visitors to the Salish Sea and discover a new children's picture book highlighting their unusual detour. This event is free and open to everyone!

July 28th, 7:00 PM - Summer Lecture Series: How are Sea Stars Faring in our Salish Sea Menagerie? 

Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, jellyfish that glow in the dark, and sea stars with super strength; ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on earth. In The Ocean’s Menagerie: How Earth’s Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life, leading marine ecologist Dr. Drew Harvell passionately explores how these spineless creatures have turned 600 million years of adaptation into a stockpile of evolutionary “superpowers” to thrive in aquatic landscapes around the world.