Orange Coast College         Public Aquarium

O.C.C. Public Aquarium as of beginning                   of Spring Semester 2009

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Located in the Building D - Room 104 and west hall      Building on the campus of 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:  Temporary facilities in Building D      now are the home of the O.C.C. Public Aquarium.  Currently are perm-     nanent building (the Lewis Center) is undergoing a long-awaited     rennovatgion.  This is due to be completed by July 2008.  At that time     Marine Science and the Public Aquarium will move back.  The 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 undergraduate     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.

Spring Semester 2008 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

Intertidal Ecology Class: click here

Power point presentations from previous lectures?  Click here

Link to Island Ecology Class: Click here

Link to Professor Dennis Kelly homepage

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

Below - our powder blue tang

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

Site created 5/20/01.Site last     updated: 03/10/08

Link to Rabbit Island Website

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