Press Releases

Join the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTSMC) on a cruise to Protection Island on New Year’s Eve day, Wednesday, December 31st. The three-hour trip leaves from Port Townsend’s Point Hudson Marina at 1 p.m. and is in collaboration with PS Express.
 First Federal recently contributed $3,500 to the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) to help pay for elementary school students in Jefferson, Clallam and Kitsap Counties to participate in a program to learn about Puget Sound orca whales and underwater sound in early 2009.
Get your holiday shopping out of the way early while supporting local educational programs for scholarships for Jefferson County students. The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) will host its annual end-of-season gift shop sale Friday, October 31 through Sunday, November 2 at the Natural History Exhibit from noon to 4 p.m. on all three days.
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) is hosting two opportunities to learn more about the wild world of fungi—or better known simply as mushrooms. A one hour slide presentation and talk will be offered on Friday, October 24, from 7-8 p.m. and on Saturday, October 25, an all-day workshop will be given from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Friday evening event will be held at the Natural History Exhibit in Fort Worden State Park and the Saturday workshop will begin there.

 

The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) invites you to come and view the fall bird migration aboard Puget Sound Express’ Glacier Spirit, a comfortably enclosed motor yacht, beginning Saturday, October 4th. The three-hour trips are scheduled from 1 – 4 p.m. on October 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, November 29th and December 31st departing from Point Hudson Marina in downtown Port Townsend.
 A new geology course will be offered by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) this fall beginning Tuesday, September 16th at 5:15 p.m. in the Natural History Exhibit classroom. This is a set of video lectures, projected on screen, from a course put out by The Teaching Company, entitled “How The Earth Works” featuring Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., professor of Geophysics at Washington University, St. Louis. 
If you see a stranded, injured or dead marine mammal, like a seal pup or adult, whale, dolphin or porpoise, do not touch, harass or try to help the animal. Information regarding stranded marine mammals is critical for proper management of wild populations and can aid in important research.
 As part of the ongoing education the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) is providing on plastics in the marine environment, Jen Kingfisher was recently hired as the new Marine Program Educator, specializing in the plastics program.
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center is hosting a lecture by Drs. Jim Hayward and Shandelle Henson at the Natural History Exhibit in Fort Worden State Park on Thursday, July 17 at 7 p.m. entitled Feathered Oscillators: Reproductive Synchrony in Seabirds.
Inspired by field trips to the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) as a young student, Hans Daubenberger went on to become a biologist and recently joined the PTMSC board of directors.
Kids have an exciting opportunity of fun learning this summer for a week of day camp at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC). Bones, Bugs & Bluffs Camp is for ages 8-12, July 7-11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. And for teens, grades 9-12, there’s a week-long overnight camp called Adventures in Marine Research, July 27-August 2. Scholarships are available for the first ten kids that sign up for Bones, Bugs & Bluffs Camp and for the first two teens that sign up for Adventures in Marine Research.
A training workshop sponsored by the Puget Sound Marine Invasive Species Volunteer Monitoring Program (MISM) will be held Saturday, June 14th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC).
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center is hosting a lecture by Dr. Richard Gammon at the Natural History Exhibit in Fort Worden State Park on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m. entitled Facing the Climate Change Challenge: Locally and Globally.
On Thursday, May 22nd, from 5-7 p.m., the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) will present a seminar entitled, “Do Well By Doing Good—Estate Planning for You, Your Family and Your Community.” It will be located in the Natural History Exhibit at Fort Worden State park.
On Saturday, April 26th at 4 p.m. in the Fort Worden Commons, the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTSMC) will offer “Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem,” by Dr. Richard A. Feely.
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) invites you to come and view the spring bird migration aboard Puget Sound Express’ Glacier Spirit, a comfortably enclosed motor yacht, beginning Saturday, April 12th and running consecutively for the following three Saturdays. The three-hour trips are scheduled from 1 – 4 p.m. on April 12th, 19th, 26th and May 3rd, departing from Hudson Point Marina in downtown Port Townsend.
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center is hosting two presentations by Varn Brooks in April at the Natural History Exhibit in Fort Worden State Park. The first lecture will be Tuesday, April 8 at 5:15 p.m. on Geology of Northwestern Canada and the second will be Tuesday, April 15 at 6 p.m. on the Natural History of Northwestern Canada.
Join the Marine Mammal Stranding Network training on Saturday, March 29th, from 9:30-11 a.m. in the Marine Exhibit, sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC).
Swirling out in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean is a giant, circular, surface current comprised of hundreds of tons of plastic. “Fresh from NE Pacific Gyre” will be the topic discussed by Dr. Marcus Eriksen, from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in Long Beach CA, in a lecture hosted by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center on Saturday, March 29th at 4:15 p.m. in the Natural History Exhibit.
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTSMC) received a $54,700 grant from Washington State’s Department of Ecology (DOE) for an 18-month project on Plastic Pollution Awareness for Puget Sound Schools and Communities.
On February 9, 2008, the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) will be hosting its annual meeting at 4 p.m. in Fort Worden’s Building 204, located next to the Commons. Director Anne Murphy will briefly present an organizational perspective and then turn the floor over to lifelong Alaskan and author Charles Wohlforth. His presentation is called, On the Northern Front of Climate Change—What’s Next.
New and experienced docents are welcome to attend two training sessions, Tuesday, January 29th and Tuesday, February 5th, in the NHE from 5:45 to 8 p.m.
Three locally-based businesses have provided over $5,000 sponsoring tuition for hundreds of local and regional students to attend the Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s (PTMSC) free winter exhibit on Plastics in the Marine Environment. From February 4th through March 27th, 30 classes of fourth through sixth grade students from public and private schools will come to the PTMSC to learn about plastics in the marine environment and how to create active solutions to address the plastic dilemma.
Usually when someone thinks of a dock, they think of a place where you tie up a boat or fish. But the 8th graders in Larry McKeehan’s science classes at Quilcene Middle School view docks differently, thanks to a new pilot science program launched by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTMSC) this fall called the Northern Hood Canal Dock Monitoring Project, fondly known as the “Docks Project.”
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center is creating a new winter exhibit on plastics in the marine environment which will open in February 2008. Roughly 500 students from across the North Olympic Peninsula will be provided with free programming thanks in part to US Bancorp contributing $2500 toward scholarships for students.