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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 administrative and operational […]

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

Take a Deep Dive with the NOAA Diving Center 

From Training to Underwater Exploration: Take a Deep Dive with the NOAA Diving Center With Jessica Keller and Zachary Hileman, both from the NOAA Diving Center in Seattle, WA and Stephanie Gandulla, NOAA's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, MI Follow the pathway to become a NOAA diver and beyond! Scientific diving is one of the main types of diving conducted throughout NOAA, [...]

Paddling Shipwrecks: Adventures in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Join Lesslee Dort, paddleboarder in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and Stephanie Gandulla, research coordinator at Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, for a discussion about recreating in a national marine sanctuary and what it is like to explore shipwrecks both above and below the water! During this live interaction, you will hear about the various [...]

Get into Your Sanctuary

Tour of the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center/Trail

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

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary has one of the most accessible collections of historic shipwrecks in the entire world, well-preserved in the cold, fresh water of the Great Lakes. Join sanctuary staff LIVE on the shores of Lake Huron as they explore the many ways paddlers, snorkelers, divers, and even glass bottom boaters can experience [...]

Get into Your Sanctuary

Tour of the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center/Trail

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

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary has one of the most accessible collections of historic shipwrecks in the entire world, well-preserved in the cold, fresh water of the Great Lakes. Join sanctuary staff LIVE on the shores of Lake Huron as they explore the many ways paddlers, snorkelers, divers, and even glass bottom boaters can experience [...]

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