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Check out this article on Michigan's underwater preserves!pressandguide.com/sports/pre…
Lake Invaders: The Fight For Lake Huron is an excellent, must-see film and will be shown as part of the Sanctuary Cinema Series next Thursday, August 22 at 7:00 p.m. in the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center Theater.
Come to the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center and learn how to construct an underwater ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) using an “ROV-In-A-Box” kit. ROV Open House dates: Aug. 3rd, Aug. 7th, and Aug 10th at 10:00 am.
Amazing research and technology happening right now in NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary!
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Dark Sky Cruise tickets are now on sale for the "7th Night of the 7th Moon Cruise," August 8th, with Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams. Tickets will sell out quickly so don't wait!
Don't miss this delightful film about the Michigan Brown Trout Festival, "Big Brownie: The O’fish’al Story."Join us tomorrow evening, July 18 at 7:00 p.m. and kick off this year's Michigan Brown Trout Festival! Free to the public at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center.
Come down to the Thunder Bay Maritime Festival to experience Genot Picor and the Depot Town Players. The group will be performing behind the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center on July 4th. Hope to see you there!
The Way Down Wanderers will be playing during the 6th Annual Battle of the Paddles on July 3rd and in the big tent at the Thunder Bay Maritime Festival from 1 PM until 2:30 PM.
Great coverage of Marc Hoeksema, one of our visiting artists from the Surf's up at the Sanctuary event! Thank you to the The Alpena News!!
Art in the Loft Thunder Bay Arts Council & Gallery Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Surf’s Up in the Sanctuary and the 2019 World Tour of the Paddling Film Festival was a blast yesterday thanks to an incredibly talented team of artists who focus in capturing the beauty and adventure of our Great Lakes. Thank you Mike, Jack, Pat and Michelle.
Named Rolling Stone Country Winter's 2019 #1 of 10 New Artists You Need to Know, this year's Thunder Bay Maritime Festival featured band is The Way Down Wanderers! "High energy percussion, mandolin, guitar, bass, banjo and fiddle weave seamlessly together to create an experience.
“Surf’s Up In the Sanctuary” will feature a variety of Great Lakes area artists who focus on surfing. The exhibit will be accompanied by films on surfing and paddling in the Great Lakes, too. It is open and free to the public, so make sure to mark June 15th on your calendar!
Join us for a lecture at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center this Thursday, May 9th at 7 pm. GLERL researcher, Steve Ruberg, will discuss how emerging technologies are leading to exciting discoveries in Lake Huron sinkholes and ecosystems.
In celebration of Earth Day, the Friends of TBNMS encourages you to join our efforts to protect our Great Lakes and ocean. The Great Lakes comprises 1/5 of the Earth's fresh surface water, 6 quadrillion gallons--the largest body of fresh water on Earth! (NASA spring satellite)
It's not to late to get some last minute Easter basket stuffers. Stop by the Sanctuary Store and check out our really cool science kits, beautifully illustrated children's books, agates and other stones, nautical toys, jewelry, spring jackets and more!
MBANK and First Federal Community Foundation Martin Thomson presents a check to Friends president Chuck Wiesen to support the 2019 Great Lakes Regional MATE ROV (underwater robotics) competition.
This Thursday, join us at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center for a part of our lecture series at 7 p.m. The "Search for the Lost Arctic Whaling Fleets" expedition conducted seabed mapping surveys of an area of the Chukchi Sea coast.
Congratulations Adam Kamyszek for winning True North Radio Network's Mindbender question posed by NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary's (TBNMS) Stephanie Gandulla. Adam won a beautiful ship print by artist Robert McGreevy.
Join us for NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary's Lecture Series at 7:00 pm this evening to learn from speaker Michael Beaulac, Michigan Office of the Great Lakes, what it means for smaller communities to be "port ready" with the growing interest in Great Lakes cruising.
