North Coast Brewing Brewmaster's Sustainable Seafood Dinner
North Coast Brewing Brewmaster's Sustainable Seafood Dinner
The Pub at North Coast Brewing Co.
Thursday, March 13
6:30 - 9 PM
$125/ticket includes 5 beers paired with 5 sustainable seafood courses
A special brewmaster’s dinner to support Noyo Center for Marine Science. Each beer will be presented by the brewmaster and paired with a sustainable seafood course. Drink and eat merrily knowing your brew is local, your seafood is sustainable, and proceeds help keep whales safe and the ocean healthy.
Welcome Ceremony for the Whales
Welcome Ceremony for the Whales
Friday, March 14
6 – 8 PM
Crow’s Nest. Ft Bragg Headlands
(Please park in designated areas only)
Free
Community members, whale scientists, ocean enthusiasts will unite to greet and thank the whales for being our neighbors and recommit to being good neighbors to the whales and stewards of the ocean. Expect musical offerings, a meaningful sunset ceremony, and words of gratitude from a variety of community members to kick off the whale season in our region.
Guided Whale Walk
Guided Whale Walk
March 15
12 PM – 1 PM
Free (Suggested donation $10)
(map)
Join Noyo Center docents for this one-hour walk along the Coastal Trail and learn about the gray whale migration and local marine life.
South Coastal Trail. Start at the parking lot of the South Coastal Trail on the Noyo Headlands and end at the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center.
Mendocino Whale War Whale Activists Panel and Discussion
Mendocino Whale War
Whale Activists Panel and Discussion
March 15
Presented by Noyo Center
and the Kelley House
Kelley House
45007 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA 95460
4-5:30 PM
$7 Members; $10 Non-Members
Event Information and Tickets: https://www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/event/whale-war-panel/
A panel and temporary exhibition at the Kelley House featuring some of the people who were instrumental in the Mendocino Whale War of 1976. During the Q&A portion of the panel, Noyo staff will be available to help answer questions about the state of whaling today, how whale populations have rebounded off the US West Coast after marine mammal protection act came into law in 1972 and how whale recovery has helped our fisheries to recover. Also, a great opportunity to snag your vintage design Save the Whales t-shirt!
Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study
Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study
Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center, Noyo Headlands South Trail
(Please park in designated areas only)
March 16
10 am – 2 pm
Free
Join Scott and Tree Mercer, founders of Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study, for gray whale counting from the deck of the Crow’s Nest and learn more about their important research.
Guided Whale Walk
Guided Whale Walk
March 16
12 PM – 1 PM
Free (Suggested donation $10)
(map)
Join Noyo Center docents for this one-hour walk along the Coastal Trail and learn about the gray whale migration and local marine life.
South Coastal Trail. Start at the parking lot of the South Coastal Trail on the Noyo Headlands and end at the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center.
Guided Whale Walk
Guided Whale Walk
March 22
12 PM – 1 PM
Free (Suggested donation $10)
(map)
Join Noyo Center docents for this one-hour walk along the Coastal Trail and learn about the gray whale migration and local marine life.
South Coastal Trail. Start at the parking lot of the South Coastal Trail on the Noyo Headlands and end at the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center.
Guided Whale Walk
Guided Whale Walk
March 23
12 PM – 1 PM
Free (Suggested donation $10)
(map)
Join Noyo Center docents for this one-hour walk along the Coastal Trail and learn about the gray whale migration and local marine life.
South Coastal Trail. Start at the parking lot of the South Coastal Trail on the Noyo Headlands and end at the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center.
Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study at The Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center
More information HERE
Photo: NOAA
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 11AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck.
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 10AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck. On Saturday, 3/18, we have Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study naturalists Scott and Tree Mercer with us from 10A-2P. More info HERE.
Mendonoma Whale Count with Scott and Tree Mercer
Join Scott and Tree Mercer, founders of Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study, for gray whale counting from the deck of the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center, and learn more about their important research. (weather permitting).
Scott Mercer began studying marine mammals in 1974, with a lengthy investigation of the feeding ecology of the Southern sea otter in Monterey Bay. Upon returning to his native Northern New England, he founded New England Whale Watch, Inc in 1978. Using his trips as a public education and research platform, Scott was a ”Major Contributor” to the North Atlantic Humpback, North Atlantic finback, and North Atlantic Right Whale Catalogs of Identified Individuals. He is co-author of The Great Whale Book published in 1982 with colleagues at The University of New Hampshire, where Scott taught a marine mammal class for fourteen years. He also taught science classes for Southern Maine Community College and a shipboard graduate level class for Wheelock College in Boston. Recently Scott was interviewed by National Marine Fisheries for a documentary on the History of Whale Watching in New England. He is cofounder of a cetacean and seabird research station on Brier Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. He flew aerial surveys for the New England Aquarium and led trips for Seafarers Expeditions. In 2014, Scott and his wife Theresa (Tree) began the Mendonoma Whale and Seal Study, doing most of their field work from the Point Arena Lighthouse Peninsula. Since 2014, they have investigated the biodiversity of marine mammals on the Sonoma and Mendocino Coasts, including a daily census of the north and south migrations of gray whales. They present their findings at major conferences.
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 10AM - 3PM daily, March 11-19. During Whale Fest we will have added specimen exhibits in addition to the tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck.
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 11AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck.
Trip to Sea/Whale Watch on the Telstar with Noyo Center Naturalists
Trip to Sea on the Telstar with the Noyo Center for Marine Science
Join us on a 2-hour trip to sea on the Telstar. Noyo Center for Marine Science Naturalists and Telstar Captain Sean Thornton lead this excursion from the harbor out on the Pacific to learn about gray whales and other marine life off our coast. This time of year we should see gray whales and lots of other interesting things along the way, so don’t forget the binoculars.
We will depart from the dock at the Slack Tide Cafe at 10 AM. At 9:30AM one of our naturalists will give an orientation about the trip and tell you about the Happy Whale app for persons interested in learning about that. We will also learn about the WhaleSafe technology now being used to help prevent ship strikes from occurring between whales and ocean vessels.
Tickets are $50 per person. No individuals under 5 years old are allowed on this trip. You will receive a full description of how to prepare for the trip and what to bring with you upon completion of registration.
The Slack Tide Cafe is open from 8AM-3PM, Thursday-Monday, with extended hours on Friday and Saturday until 7PM. We serve an array of breakfast fare, excellent coffee and espresso drinks in the morning to nourish you for the trip. And we are open for lunch, so stick around and hang out after the journey to sea.
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 11AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck.
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 11AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck.
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 11AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck.
Crow's Nest Interpretive Center
Visit the Crow’s Nest Interpretive Center. Open 11AM - 3PM, where we have a beautiful tidepool aquarium, marine mammal exhibits, and whale watching from the deck.