At the U.S. Pavilion, major exhibits sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the U.S. Navy and others will introduce international visitors to ocean-based health research and technology. The Hall of Discovery features nine exhibits with interactive elements designed to introduce visitors to the broad scope of U.S. ocean activities. The exhibit explains how pollutants spread around the world, even to the snow and ice in arctic regions.
People can touch the iceberg - and also live sea creatures in a tank.
Navy-sponsored exhibits feature El Nino research, with a display of ocean buoys that collect data to help predict weather and climate changes. There will be periscopes to peer through and a full-scale model of the deep sea Deep Rover. A welcoming video will show Sake the Sea Lion. Calif. Until now, most observations of whales were when they were at the surface, where they spend only 5 to 10 percent of their lives. Additional exhibits highlight leading oceanographic institutions, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scripps Institute of Oceanography.