The events page and calendar for San Pedro and the Harbor Area
Relive your favorite memories and create new ones during Cabrillo Marine Aquarium's Family Sandcastle Day! This event is free and open to everyone. All you need to bring is your best sandcastle building tools, a little shovel and bucket, and your castle creativity to this fun beach event. The sand on Cabrillo Beach will be Read More ...
From March through July, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium presents special evening programs to introduce you to the unique and elusive grunion. At times the beach may look as if it is covered in a blanket of silver as the wriggling fish arrive to mate. The females burrow into the sand to lay eggs while the males Read More ...
ARCTIC CLIMATE, AS DOCUMENTED BY ALGAL ROCKS AT THE CABRILLO MARINE AQUARIUM The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium (CMA) invites you to meet Claremont McKenna College Professor Branwen Williams an Oceanographer at the Discovery Lecture Series presented by AltaSea and CMA. Professor Williams uses the skeletons of marine organisms as tools to understand recent changes in the Read More ...
Spend Saturday morning enjoying the coast while helping the environment by picking up trash. Hosted by Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in collaboration with the California Coastal Commission, this event will be the 31st annual Coastal Cleanup Day. Every U.S. state and over 90 countries are engaging in the clean-up. Participants will meet on outer Cabrillo Beach Read More ...
Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Educators to learn about the Salinas de San Pedro wetlands habitat at Cabrillo Beach by using binoculars and microscopes to observe live animals. Visitors can view the birds of the marsh, learn about native plants and observe the changes in the tides. Fee: FREE; open to all ages.
As part of this special week set aside to raise the profile of a sea otters, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium will provide visitors with the chance to get an “inside look” at this endangered species. Visit the Exploration Center where we will have a fully articulated sea otter skeleton on display all week. Come find out Read More ...
The Expo provides great opportunities to sample new seafood options and see professional chefs turn sustainable seafood into dishes that you and your family can prepare at home. Experts are on hand to explain fisheries, habitats, species management, and a host of other factors that affect each species. More than a dozen non-profit and educational Read More ...
Discovery Lecture Series presented by AltaSea and Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Ecological Consequences of Thermal Stress on Wave-Swept Shores: Insights from a Model Ecosystem By Bengt J. Allen, California State University, Long Beach Increasing temperature variability associated with rapid climate change is likely to be an important driver of biological disturbance over the next few decades, Read More ...
Join Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and visit the Beach’s own wetland habitat, Salinas de San Pedro, and discover the plants and animals that call it home! Using binoculars, magnifying glasses and other tools, CMA Educators and volunteers will help you observe and explore this habitat. Or simply sit back, watch the tide change and listen to Read More ...
Celebrate the bounty of the sea with fun-in-the-sun games and hometown spirit at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium's Autumn Sea Fair! Children of all ages will enjoy ocean-related activities throughout the day, including face-painting, origami lessons and gyotaku, the Japanese art of fish printing. Dig out your inner pirate and join in the search for buried treasure, Read More ...
