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Event Calendar ItemFamily Fun At The Waikiki Aquarium - NOVEMBER 2024 Events And Programs
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Date: NOVEMBER 2024
Time: see notes
Location:
2777 Kalakaua Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96815
Phone: 808-923-9741
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Waikiki Aquarium Family Programs - NOVEMBER 2024
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FEATURED EXHIBIT/ - Amazing Adaptations Exhibit Opens!
Description: The Amazing Adaptations Gallery displays a diverse collection of seahorses, seadragons and pipefishes. These fishes are members of an unusual fish family, known as family Syngnathidae, and share some unusual characteristics. Perhaps most notably, the male fishes in this family carry the eggs and the females show no parental care. Some species even exhibit true male pregnancy and are the only animals known to do so. Other characteristics of these fish include elongated bodies enclosed in bony armor, tubular fused snouts, and the need to eat almost continuously due to the lack of a stomach. There are nearly 200 known pipefish species, 47 known seahorse species, and only two known seadragon species.
Extending over 60 feet of gallery wall and holding over 3,000-gallons of water, the gallery includes nine exhibits that display species ranging from local Hawaiian pipefishes and seahorses to exotic Australian seadragons. Additionally, two seahorse nursery tanks display juvenile seahorses bred at the aquarium and the live food these fish require to survive in captivity.
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ONGONG EVENTS
Native Hawaiian Plant Tour
Join volunteer Alice Roberts for a personal guided tour of the Aquarium’s native Hawaiian plant gardens, where she will be highlighting 16 of the plants. A complete plant guide book is available in the Waikīkī Aquarium’s Volunteer Office, or you can print out your own Hawaiian Plant Guide map for the tour by going to the following link:
http://www.waikikiaquarium.org/experience/plants-seaweeds/hawaiian-plant-guide/
NOVEMBER 7 2024 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
NOVEMBER 21, 2024 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Hawaiian Reef Animals
Tuesdays at 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm
Wednesdays at 2:00 pm
Sneak-a-peek behind the scenes and learn about Hawaiian reef animals. Hold a sea star, feel a sea cucumber and feed an urchin. This half-hour program is a great addition to any visit to Waikiki Aquarium. Perfect for families with children 4 and up. Or schedule a private encounter for your group of 5 to 12 people. $5 per person plus Aquarium admission.
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Behind the Scenes Tour
Wednesdays at 3:30 pm
Sneak-a-peek behind the scenes and learn about Hawaiian reef animals. Hold a sea star, feel a sea cucumber and feed an urchin. This half-hour program is a great addition to any visit to Waikiki Aquarium. Perfect for families with children 4 and up. Or schedule a private encounter for your group of 5 to 12 people. $5 per person plus Aquarium admission.
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Classes and Activities for Groups
Waikīkī Aquarium offers a variety classes for community and family groups from 6 people to 45 people. Book a Private Aquarium Tour or the interactive Hawaiian Reef Animals encounter for your clan. Or, an Aquarium After Dark or Fish School for your club or scout group.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) Table
Monday, November 11, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) is the largest Hawaii-based nonprofit marine species conservation, education, field support, rescue and stranding response organization.
Their mission is to undertake substantial actions that result in the preservation, recovery and stewardship of Hawaii’s marine protected species and the ocean ecosystem we share. Thousands of times each year, our outreach, field response, interventions, rescue and stranding support activities help us move towards our vision of Hawaii’s ocean ecosystem shared in sustainable harmony by humans and marine protected animals such as Hawaiian monk seals, sea turtles, dolphins, whales and seabirds.
Visit HMARʻs table at the Waikiki Aquarium to learn about HMAR, the work they do, and why they do it.
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Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) Table
Monday, November 25, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) is the largest Hawaii-based nonprofit marine species conservation, education, field support, rescue and stranding response organization.
Their mission is to undertake substantial actions that result in the preservation, recovery and stewardship of Hawaii’s marine protected species and the ocean ecosystem we share. Thousands of times each year, our outreach, field response, interventions, rescue and stranding support activities help us move towards our vision of Hawaii’s ocean ecosystem shared in sustainable harmony by humans and marine protected animals such as Hawaiian monk seals, sea turtles, dolphins, whales and seabirds.
Visit HMARʻs table at the Waikiki Aquarium to learn about HMAR, the work they do, and why they do it.
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VISIT WAIKIKI AQUARIUM WEBSITE
SUPPORT WAIKIKI AQUARIUM
Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium
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Become a Member
Becoming a Friends of the Waikīkī Aquarium (FOWA) member enables marine life enthusiasts of all ages
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ABOUT WAIKIKI AQUARIUM
Founded in 1904 and administered by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa since 1919, the Waikiki Aquarium is located on the shoreline of Waikiki Beach next to a living reef and across from Kapiolani Park. The Aquarium -- second oldest in the U.S. -- showcases more than 500 marine species, and maintains more than 3,500 marine specimens. Public exhibits, education programs and research focus on the unique aquatic life of Hawai'i and the tropical Pacific.
The Aquarium welcomes more than 320,000 visitors annually, and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except Honolulu Marathon Sunday and Christmas Day. Admission is $12 for visitors; $8 for local residents and active duty military with ID, $5 for senior citizens and juniors ages four to 12; and free for children three and under and Friends of Waikiki Aquarium (FOWA) members.
MISSION:
To inspire and promote understanding, appreciation
and conservation of Pacific marine life.
DESCRIPTION:
Founded in 1904, the Waikiki Aquarium is the second
oldest public aquarium in the United States. A part of the University of
Hawai`i at Manoa since 1919, it is located next to a living reef on the Waikiki
shoreline. Exhibits, programs, and research focus on the aquatic life of
Hawai`i and the tropical Pacific, with roughly 320,000 people visiting the
Aquarium each year. Over 3,500 organisms are on exhibit representing more than
500 species of aquatic animals and plants.
EXHIBITS:
Waikiki Aquarium exhibits focus on the diversity of
aquatic, shoreline and coral reef habitats and living communities of Hawai`i and
the tropical Pacific. Among the highlights:
- Corals Are Alive! interactive exhibits
showcasing corals, their biology and conservation - SeaVisions Theatre shows videos that
illustrate shoreline conservation and how you can be a responsible reef
visitor - South Pacific Marine Communities features
South Pacific habitats and species, including colorful reef corals and fishes,
giant clams, groupers and snappers and intriguing partnerships such as
anemonefishes and their host sea anemones - Hawaiian Marine Communities recreates
Hawaiian habitats from wave-swept surge zone to deep reef slopes, and from young
to ancient reefs; celebrates distinctive reef life, including the longnose
butterflyfish - Ocean Drifters Gallery features a
1,000-gallon moon jelly tank and a seasonally changing jelly wall that may
contain white-spotted jellies, blue blubbers, sea nettles, box jellies and
ctenophores - Hunters on the Reef 35,000-gallon exhibit
is home to Hawaiian sharks and jacks; shark interpretive panels introduce shark
biology, research, conservation and safety. New Spyball camera provides up close
shark encounters in real time on a television screen - Edge of the Reef naturalistic shoreline
exhibit offering opportunities for supervised observation and hands-on
interactions with selected marine life - The Coral Farm exhibit and working research
facility for propagation of reef corals - Giant Clams exhibit and working research
facility for propagation of clams - Hawaiian Monk Seal Habitat features the
endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal found only in the Hawaiian Islands - Aquaculture features moi, a popular food
fish, whose numbers have declined in the wild - Coastal Gardens with native Hawaiian plants
adapted for life close to the sea
Hawaiian monk seals; ‘öhai (endemic
Hawaiian coastal plant)
UNIQUE SPECIES:
Pacific giant clams; Hawaiian stream gobies; rare
deep-reef butterflyfish; bearded armorheads; masked angelfish; and diverse
native coastal plants
CONSERVATION & RESEARCH:
The Waikiki Aquarium is a working research facility,
conducting numerous conservation and research programs, including:
- Husbandry, nutrition and behavior of aquatic and marine
aquarium specimens - Husbandry and propagation of chambered
nautilus - Spawning behavior, larval rearing, and propagation
potential of selected reef fishes - Identification & treatment of diseases, parasite
infections and other ailments of aquarium marine life - Coral husbandry, propagation and conservation
- Hawaiian monk seal metabolic and bacteriological
research - Giant clam husbandry and propagation
- Sea jelly husbandry and propagation
- Deep reef coral research
- Coral Ark: archiving and husbandry of rare Hawaiian
corals
The Waikiki Aquarium offers numerous education programs,
including:
- Interpretive services: staff or volunteers enrich
the visitor experience with explanations of the exhibits, demonstrations, and
hands-on experiences - Self-tour opportunities for individuals and
groups: interpretive graphics & exhibits, handouts are
available. - School Program: presentations and docent-assisted
tours for school groups, grades K - 6 - Outreach and special request presentations for
schools and community groups - Community Enrichment Program: year-round natural
history fieldtrips, classes, and workshops for children, families, and
adults - Information services: staff answer questions from
visitors & community on marine and aquarium-science related
topics
The Waikiki Aquarium affords a number of opportunities
to get involved through:
- Membership: Join the Friends of the
Waikïkï Aquarium (FOWA) to enjoy the annual benefits of free
admission, 20% discount at the Natural Selections gift shop, quarterly mailings
of our beautiful and informative magazine Kilo i’a, free salt water
pick-up, and facility rental privileges at “Family” and
“Family Plus” levels. To select the membership level right for you,
please see the Visitor Services staff or contact Events and Membership Manager
Raina Fujitani at (808) 440-9008 for more information. - Volunteerism: When you donate your time and
curiosity to the Waikiki Aquarium, you are rewarded with diverse and challenging
opportunities to help make a difference!- Education
– Docents provide on-site presentations and tours to elementary school
groups and provide outreach programs for school and community groups.
Interpreters at the Edge of the Reef exhibit assist visitors and provide
up-close observations of Hawaiian marine life. - Live
Exhibits – Assist with husbandry, tank maintenance and
feeding. - Natural
Selection Shop – Assist with stocking inventory and sales. - Membership/Public
Relations/Special Events - Assist with bulk mail outs & communications
with Aquarium members, public relations surveys, record-keeping and special
events.
- Education
The Waikiki Aquarium has received several awards for its
research and conservation efforts, including:
- 2008 Keep It Hawai`i Award
- 2003 Munson Aquatic Conservation Exhibit (M.A.C.E.) Award
from the American Zoo & Aquarium Association (AZA) for South Pacific Marine
Communities exhibit - 2003 Edward H. Bean Award from AZA for Long Term Tropical
Pacific Coral Propagation Program
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EMPLOYEES: 35 full-time, 36 part-time, 33
affiliate staff
HOURS: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily (except
Honolulu Marathon Sunday and Christmas Day)
ADMISSION: $12 for visitors; $8 for local residents and active duty military with ID, $5 for senior citizens and juniors ages four to 12; and free for children three and under and Friends of Waikiki Aquarium (FOWA) members.
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