Rehabilitation
Cape Cod is a stranding hotspot. Hundreds of marine animals strand alive and in need of medical care every year. The National Marine Life Center is meeting that need. Our core mission is to rehabilitate and release stranded marine mammals and sea turtles. We believe that through rehabilitation, we can help individual animals, learn more about marine animal species and wildlife disease, and share...
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Science
Living the majority of their lives in the deep ocean, marine animals are challenging for humans to see and study. The animals undergoing rehabilitation at the National Marine Life Center offer a unique opportunity to learn more about their species, about wildlife health, and ultimately about the health of our oceans. Current research includes investigations of marine animal parasites and case studies of...
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Education
Marine animals make ideal teaching tools. Dolphins, whales, seals, and sea turtles are charismatic and interesting. The ocean depths in which they live are mysterious and exciting. By using marine animals as subject material, National Marine Life Center instructors address topics from biology to physics, writing composition to art, math to technology. Marine animals also make ideal subjects for lessons on...
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Most Recent Articles
TEACHER WORKSHOP: Go Under the Sea with STEM
Join us for this One-Week Institute for Middle and High School Educators! REGISTER ON-LINE: https://www.wadeinstitutema.org/2019-cape-cod-region-summer-professional-development-institute/ Go Under the Sea with STEM...
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Patient Update: 5/13/19 Welcome back to the National Marine Life Center’s Patient Update! As this is our first update of 2019, I’d like to kick things into gear by trying out something a little different from...
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Summer Day Program: Discover Marine Life !
Back by popular demand – “Discover Marine Life,” the...
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Learning science…. You can help inspire youth!
Do you remember first learning about science? What was your experience like?...
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Thriving in the wild… You can help advance science!
Otitis media. You may know it as an ear infection from which your child...
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Cold-stunned and entangled…. you can help #73!
It was a brisk, sunny November day when Number 73 stranded on Cape Cod, barely...
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Spectacle of Trees – Win a Tree and $14.5K Worth of Gifts!
“Shining Stars and Sparkling Seas,” there’s something for...
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New Volunteer Orientation: December 1st, 2018
The National Marine Life Center functions with a great deal of support from our...
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Order your NMLC 2019 Calendars!!!!
The National Marine Life centers beautifully designed calendars are full of...
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Spooky Splash Open House
Join us for our October Open House! It’s that spoooooky time of year...
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Win Winnie!
Winnicut is a female harbor seal weanling that stranded earlier this year, on...
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