Wed-Sat 1:00 – 4:00pm
Small shark feed 1:30 pm
Reptile interactions throughout the afternoon
Tide Pool encounters every afternoon except during small shark feed time
The Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO is:
- The first inland aquarium in NC
- Member of: Oceana, American Elasmobranch Society; NC Science Network; National Marine Educators; American Meteorological Society, NMEA, Nature Foundation of St. Maarten, AMS, Reef Check
- Listed in the top 150 aquariums in the USA by Everything Fish Keeping
- Member of the Career & Technical Education Advisory Board HCPS;
- An NC Environmental Education Site; a Fish Education Site for REEF;
- Part of the NC Chapel Hill pilot program for environmental education
- Has established networks with the GA Aquarium, Riverbanks Zoo, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, and The Field Museum in Chicago
- Has provided service work and training at the Biosphere2 in AZ.
- Houses the only immersive marine science intern program for college and high school students in WNC