Ocean Explorers experience the thrill of scientific discovery at a working marine lab.
Children actively learn from field explorations, hands-on activities, games, and crafts.
Children make themselves glow in the dark like angler fish, get mucky and muddy at Elkhorn Slough, search for birds, turtles, and fish at Neary Lagoon, explore the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and hunt for sand crabs at Seacliff State Beach. In the morning, great low tides find us with our faces down in the tidal zones seldom seen. Field sites include the tidepools at Natural Bridges and Asilomar State Beaches and kayaking on Monterey Bay. Designed to provide students with positive female role models in marine science and education, explorers spend an adventurous week at the lab and in the field. We kayak on Monterey Bay or Elkhorn Slough, study the biology of the San Francisco Bay at the Marine Science Institute in Redwood City, and explore amazing tidepools in Pescadero.