It’s Dollar Day!
Event Details:
Join Museum staff and bring friends on Saturday, January 11 to explore the nature of our region. If where we live shapes how we live, then the Corpus Christi Bay and Gulf of Mexico play a huge role in our lives. What’s in the bay, above the bay, and beside the bay influence our everyday lives more than we might think.
Texas Master Naturalists, TAMUCC Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, UT Marine Science Institute, Padre Island National Seashore, and others will “dive in” to the wonder of it all during this family-friendly event. Corpus Christi Museum staff will present dazzling science shows and invite you to participate in great experiments and crafts.
It’s a DOLLAR-DAY! Admission $1 per person; Free for members, children 2 and younger and SNAP recipients.
Event Highlights:
Details:
- Saturday, January 11, 2025
- 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Dollar Day! Admission $1 Per Person
- Museum Members & Children 2 Years and Under are FREE
- Museums for All: FREE Entry for SNAP & WIC Card Holders
What’s Happening:
- Discovery Carts
- Science Shows
- Museum Live!
- Special Guests
- Engaging Activities
- And More!
Special Guests:
- Texas Master Naturalists
- Padre Island National Seashore
- Harte Research Institute
- UT Marine Science Institute – Mission Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Texas State Aquarium’s Wildlife Rescue Center
- Texas Parks and Wildlife
- Brad Lomax
- Jace Tunnell
Distinguished Lectures:
Brad Lomax – Texas Surf Conservancy
Oyster Mariculture in Texas: Creating a New Sustainable Seafood Industry
Brad Lomax is a champion of our coastal community–a legendary surfer, local seafood restaurateur, cofounder of the “Sink Your Shucks” oyster shell recycling program, founder of the Texas Surf Conservancy, and a trailblazer in the Texas oyster farming industry. Brad will share a history of the farmed oyster industry in Texas and his perspectives as the State’s first permitted oyster farmer.
Lecture at 11:00 a.m.
Jace Tunnell – Nurdle Patrol
Marine Debris & Nurdle Patrol in the Coastal Bend
Jace Tunnell, Director of Community Engagement at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, founded Nurdle Patrol, a citizen science project tracking plastic pellet pollution worldwide. His work focuses on educating the public about plastic pollution, marine science, and natural resource protection.
Lecture at 1:00 p.m.
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