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New England Aquarium's has new climate change tour

Posted by Bennie DiNardo  August 11, 2009 06:44 AM
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Here’s something fun to do in the dead days of August: Check out the New England Aquarium’s free new Blue Impact Tour before you visit.

The seriously entertaining tour can be downloaded to your cell phone and MP3 player. Then, when you arrive at the Aquarium, learn about global warming’s impact on Boston Harbor, sea turtles, jellies, lobsters and the very rare North Atlantic right whale. You can also watch it on line here.

Using animation and clever anecdotes and descriptions (lobsters in Barbie dresses and dancing water molecules) the tour focuses on work Aquarium scientists do from coral reefs to increasing numbers of jellyfish in the sea.

The Aquarium says it’s the first cultural institution in New England to use the mobile tour technology that has both video and audio. Created by Untravel Media in Boston, it’s available in Portuguese, Spanish and closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

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