Video Conference / Distance Learning Programs

The Marine Education Center & Aquarium has been providing interactive distance learning programs to schools across the country since 1994, and has pioneered the use of multimedia and mobile videoconference equipment in delivering our programs. Our distance learning programs are available to educational institutions that have IP based video conference systems.

Many of our programs are taught from our multimedia enhanced videoconferencing studio. We also have the capability to take your class on interactive tank-by-tank tours of our public aquaria, conduct behind the scenes programs, visit our invertebrate "touch tanks," and collect water samples and organisms right from the edge of the Skidaway River using our mobile video system (pictured at right).

Our program offerings reflect MECA's focus on ecosystems, coastal flora and fauna, water quality issues, and the physical character of the coastal and marine environments. Programs are presented by our teaching and marine advisory faculty, educators from NOAA's Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary office, and scientists from the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography.

To view our available programs, click on "Program descriptions" (above right). To Schedule a program please direct inquiries to our Scheduling Coordinator via email, or by calling (912) 598-2335. All programs are fifty-minutes long and are available at a cost of $80 per sesion.

The University of Georgia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status in its programs or activities. The Director of the UGA Equal Opportunity Office at 3 Peabody Hall, Athens, Georgia 30602 (telephone 706-542-7912) has been designated to handle inquiries regarding these non-discrimination policies.