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Sanctuary Lecture Series – Water Walkers: Native American Journey to Protect the Great Lakes

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

Join children’s author Carol Trembath to learn about her experience writing the Water Walkers Series: Water Walkers, Stepping Stones, and Ripples and Waves.  These beautifully written and illustrated books are told from the perspective of an Ojibway girl whose family members are walking around the Great Lakes to raise awareness about harm being done to our [...]

Sanctuary Cinema Series – Haunted Lighthouse

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

Come to the sanctuary’s latest in the Sanctuary Cinema Series!  Narrated by maritime author Frederick Stonehouse, this documentary film explores Great Lakes lighthouse hauntings at Whitefish Point, Big Bay Point, Old Presque Isle, and Seul Choix Point! (1999 & 2003 film by Don Hermanson, 60 minutes, no rating) Free and open to the public.

Sanctuary Cinema Series – Crossing Superior

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

Crossing Superior follows a riveting 60-mile journey three men took with their paddle boards across a lake that is often a force to be reckoned with. Eleven-time Emmy award winner Corey Adkins tagged along to document the 22-hour journey with Stand Up for Great Lakes, including humored encounters with freighters, a permit to do something [...]

Sanctuary Lecture Series – The U.S. Life-Saving Service on Superior’s Shipwreck Coast

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

The desolate Lake Superior shoreline between Whitefish Point in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula and the area of Grand Marais, MI, is littered with a multitude of shipwrecks. Some occurred as early as the 1816 wreck of the schooner Invincible, while newer, larger wrecks are deep within the shipping lanes. The 729' SS Edmund Fitzgerald is [...]

Sanctuary Lecture Series – Celebrating 150 years of Great Lakes’ Iconic Bulk Freighters

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

Great Lakes Maritime Historian Patrick Labadie describes the introduction and subsequent development of the iconic Great Lakes vessels, and their effect on the Midwest. The commerce of the American Midwest has always been closely linked with the efficiency of Great Lakes transportation. Eighteenth-century fur trade, 19th century agriculture, lumbering and mining were all dependent upon [...]

Sanctuary Cinema Series – Chicago’s Christmas Tree Ship

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

Come to the sanctuary’s latest in the Sanctuary Cinema Series! November 22, 1912: The schooner Rouse Simmons departs upper Michigan ferrying 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago.  The ship disappears, and for 60 years there’s no trace of it. In 1971 a scuba diver discovers the legendary, lost  “Christmas Tree Ship.” (2013, 50 minutes, no rating) [...]

Sanctuary Lecture Series – NOAA Corps: A Service for Science

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

Presented by LTJG Hunter Brendel Lieutenant (junior grade) Hunter Brendel will speak about the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, the nation’s smallest uniformed service comprised of 321 officers. NOAA Corps operates NOAA’s fleet of 16 ships and nine aircraft that conduct scientific operations throughout the United States and internationally. Officers also take on [...]

Inner Space to Outer Space: Great Lakes’ Contribution to Space Exploration & Research

Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center 500 West Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI, United States

Presented by State of Michigan Maritime Archaeologist Wayne Lusardi, he will highlight an assortment of objects, both human-made and natural, that have fallen from space into the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes have served as a training ground throughout the history of aviation. Nineteenth-century balloon ascensions, early military and civilian aircraft development, [...]

Exploring the Lakebed in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary with Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants

Take a virtual field trip into the depths of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary with research coordinator Stephanie Gandulla. In 2019, NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries partnered with Ocean Exploration Trust and the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory to expand our understanding of sanctuaries through deep-water exploration and research. Using an autonomous surface vehicle and the [...]

Shipwrecks & Sanctuaries

Join Ocean Today co-hosts Symone Barkley and Debi Blaney as they take you on an expedition that deploys robots and lasers to explore sunken war ships! Educators, and curious kids - of all ages, join their guests, NOAA maritime archaeologists, Joseph Hoyt and Stephanie Gandulla on an exciting virtual field trip into the depths - and our past. Register For This Event

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