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Members' Magazine It's Time to Live Blue™ It’s time to live blue™ National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry’s shark photos Explore the secret world of penguins with Penguinology Meet the Aquarium’s new Vice President of Animal Health Members’ Magazine Volume 47, Number 3 Summer 2014 On the cover: Tiger shark in the Bahamas Photo: B. Skerry blue is a quarterly magazine exclusively for members of the New England Aquarium produced and published by New England Aquarium, Central Wharf, Boston, MA, 02110. Publishing office located at 177 Milk St., Boston, MA, 02109. blue and all materials within On a New England Aquarium Whale Watch you can see humpback whales and more! Photo: Boston Harbor Cruises are property of the New England Aquarium. Reproduction of any materials is possible only through written In This Issue @neaq.org permission. © blue 2014 Cool Jobs: Mark Smith, Vice President Dive into a sea of resources online. www.neaq.org The website is full of conservation information, Editor 2 of Animal Care Ann Cortissoz animal facts and details that will help you plan Designer your next trip to the Aquarium. Cathy LeBlanc New England Aquarium Whale Watch Contributors 3 Throughout this issue of blue, look for Emily Bauernfeind this icon to point out items that you Jeff Ives ™ Deb Kulich live blue : Bud Ris can explore further on our website. Jason Roberts 4 Brian Skerry Plan Your Visit Future Ocean Protectors: Penguinology Get directions, find parking options and 6 download a Visitor Guide. General Information (617) 973-5200 Global Explorers: Sharks 8 National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry Check Out the Film Listings Marine Animal Stranding Hotline gives these amazing animals their close-ups. Come to the Simons IMAX Theatre (617) 973-5247 and see Penguins 3D, Island of Lemurs: Membership and Madagascar 3D, Great White Shark 3D Annual Fund Members’ Notes and Journey to the South Pacific 3D. (617) 973-6555 10 Visiting Tip, Aquarium Marathon Team, [email protected] Animal Sponsorship and more Explore the Oceans With Us See live photos from ocean expeditions Calendar and watch videos of our animals. 12 Fin & Tonic Members-exclusive evening, www.neaq.org/blogs Animal Encounters, IMAX movies and more View Upcoming Events Your membership gets you a discount on a variety of Aquarium offerings—don’t miss out! New England Aquarium Proudly Recognizes Our Sponsors At the Aquarium It’s time for Penguinology Explore the secret world of penguins. This summer at the Aquarium, you are invited to go on an adventure to discover amazing facts about penguins. Come uncover the power of penguins’ underwater super speed. Peek into Welcoming a the hidden burrows where they care New President and CEO for their young. See all the tricks they have up their feathers. The New England Aquarium is thrilled to welcome our new president and The fun starts as soon as you enter CEO, Dr. Nigella Hillgarth! the Aquarium. Families will receive a special Penguinology Adventure Before coming to the Aquarium, Guide with a series of informational Dr. Hillgarth served as the Executive pages that present a mysterious Director of University of California, San fact about penguins. Each mystery Diego’s Birch Aquarium at Scripps, which is solved at one of the decoder feed to the breeding room behind is part of the world-renowned Scripps stations tucked away throughout the the scenes so you can check in on the Institution of Oceanography. Aquarium. The stations have a special penguin parents and juveniles. A native of Ireland, the Oxford-educated light that makes the answer appear on There are more than 80 penguins Dr. Hillgarth has been leading the Birch the guide page before your eyes! waiting to inspire your love of the Aquarium since 2002. While at the Birch, The same penguin mysteries will be blue planet like never before. Come she spearheaded the renovation of exhibit accessible using your smartphone learn about these amazing birds, halls and brought in regular changing or tablet, along with even more and discover how we can work exhibits, including the award-winning fascinating penguin stories and videos. together to help them survive in a “Feeling the Heat: The Climate Challenge.” Plus, penguin chick season will be in changing world. Your next trip to the She also dramatically increased private full swing when you visit this summer. Aquarium will transform you into giving to an institution that receives only The Blue Planet Action Center will a penguinologist—one of penguins’ a small amount of direct operating support feature daily presentations with a live many allies. Let the adventure begin! from local or state governments, much like the New England Aquarium. Prior to that she headed up the largest bird park in the United States at the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City. Dr. Hillgarth is also a highly regarded zoologist and has conducted research on penguins and other birds. Her field work has taken her to the Arctic, Antarctica, Argentina, the Amazon, the Galapagos, Peru, India and Thailand. While at Scripps, she also served as the assistant director for outreach in oceanography, working to ensure that the institution’s mission and research are effectively communicated to the world. Board Chair Donna Hazard remarks, “We are thrilled to have found in Nigella an experienced aquarium leader and scientist who shares the Aquarium’s passion for the oceans and commitment to education, conservation and research.” Discover how penguins like this African penguin speed through the water. 1 cool jobs —Ann Cortissoz Mark Smith, vice president of animal care When Mark Smith started scuba diving led him to help build at 16, he used to draw moray eels out entire aquariums from Working in the aquarium of their holes using their reflection in his the ground up. world gave Mark a good idea of the New England diving mask as a lure. Once they were He oversaw the Aquarium’s contributions. out, Mark says, he would let them dive biological, technical “I am an admirer of the people who into his buoyancy compensation vest as if and operational aspects of the represent the Aquarium, the team, the it was a cave, and when they poked their construction and start-up of L’Aquarium dedication of that team to its mission, heads out, he would feed them smashed de Barcelona. As the institution’s which is clearly conservation and sea urchins. They have poor eyesight, director, his responsibilities included education, in an uncompromising way,” Mark explains, so it was important not to exhibit design, water treatment, He says. “They have done marvelous make sudden moves and make sure the animal husbandry protocols and things, and there’s the promise to urchin was near their mouth, because the education and research programs. scent makes them very motivated to feed. do a whole lot more. So when they A few years later, Mark reprised his tapped me on the shoulder, the Asked why in the world he did this, role as director at the Oceanario de choice to come to the New England Mark’s reply was, “Curiosity...I was Lisboa. Coincidentally, the architect Aquarium was very, very easy.” fascinated with marine life and who designed the Lisbon aquarium, There were some aspects of the exhilarated to be in their realm.” (Though Peter Chermayeff, also designed institution that Mark didn’t expect, today, as the Aquarium’s new Vice the New England Aquarium building though. “I was surprised by the quality President of Animal Health, he hastens almost 30 years earlier with the and quantity of the research and to say that luring moray eels out of caves then fledgling architecture firm conservation programs conducted by the and feeding them is not advisable.) Cambridge Seven Associates. Aquarium. I knew the team did great work, Mark, a tall, affable Australian, has been Mark is no stranger to New England. He but the scale is impressive. The Aquarium fascinated by the ocean since he first saw co-founded a Rochester, Mass. design should be shouting from the rooftops it at age 5, and his career path shows it. firm called Cosestudi that specializes the successes it has had,” Mark laughs. Mark took an aquarium job in Australia in conceptualizing, designing and “Maybe that’s not the New England way. immediately after college, where he implementing science-related exhibits. It’s certainly not the country Australian built an education program and a He also took on the role of executive way, but we should do it nontheless.” research and rescue foundation from director at the Ocean Explorium in New Mark also admires the decision made the ground up. From there he took on a Bedford, an educational center for the not too long ago to focus rescue and series of aquarium jobs that eventually study of science and ocean stewardship. rehabilitation efforts on animals that are actually endangered: animals on which the Aquarium can have a conservation implact. “That’s the way the aquarium and zoo community should be moving,” Marks says. “And once again the New England Aquarium is in the vanguard.” Photo: K. Ellenbogen Rock beauty angelfish (Holacanthus tricolor) 2 Photo: S. Cheng S. Photo: African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) New England Aquarium Whale Watch Wonder Is Just a Boat Ride Away The New England Aquarium partners with Boston Harbor Cruises (BHC) to give visitors front-row seats to view the oceans’ most fascinating and magnificent animals on the New England Aquarium Whale Watch. The BHC boat takes passengers to Rescued green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, a rich feeding ground for whales, dolphins, sea birds and other marine life. This area is home to several kinds of large whales, Brown booby (Sula leucogaster) including humpback whales, finback whales, minke Photos: Boston Harbor Cruises whales, pilot whales and the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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