Orange Coast College         Public Aquarium

O.C.C. Public Aquarium as of beginning of the Spring Semester 2009 - (left) Outside view with shade structure.  (Right) Inside view! To see more photos of the Aquarium - Click here!

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Located in the Lewis Center - Room 102 on the west side      of the campus off Merrimac Street - Parking Lot E - Orange   Coast College, 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa,   California.  For more information call: 714-432-5564  Map?   Click here!  Hours: Sunrise to sunset, 7 days a week.    Admission: Free

Description of the Pubic Aquarium:  Currently the Lewis Center was       completely rennovated.  This was August 25 2008.   The public aquarium       has has existed at O.C.C. for 40 years. Since its inception the Public       Aquarium has  been a training and educational facility for under-        graduate marine science students.  A one unit class, Marine Science      120 offers students the opportunity to earn college credit as they      study the science of marine aquariumology.

Fall Semester 2009 Syllabus - Marine Aquarium Class - click here

Professor Dennis Kelly, Aquarium Director,  Marine Science  Department,        Orange Coast College, 2701 Fairview Rd, Costa Mesa, CA 92628 , 714-432-5564  email: dkelly@occ.cccd.edu

Below - our new Plankton Kriesal - Jellyfish tank 05/01/09. Page 3 Close up of Moon jelly

Intertidal Ecology Class: click here

Link to Island Ecology Class: Click here

Link to O.C.C. College Website: Click here.

Link to the  Coastal Dolphin Survey Project

Link to the Oceanography Class

Link to the O.C.C. Marine Mammal Class

Link to Coastal Oceanography Class

Link to Marine Biology Class

Link to Ecology of the Gray Whale Class

Professor Dennis Kelly homepage

Power point presentations from previous class lectures?  Click here

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