A survey conducted by the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, in collaboration with national and regional zoo and aquarium associations, showed that annually more than 700 million people visit zoos and aquariums worldwide and are thus potentially exposed to environmental education. Furthermore, the world zoo and aquarium community reportedly spends about US$ 350 million on wildlife conserv...

Figure 1: The virtual aquarium system. Figure 2: Example scene from the virtual aquarium. 1. Introduction Modern day science museums have embraced the idea of using highly interactive exhibits to attract, involve and engage their visitors. Zoos and aquaria however suffer from the problem that direct interaction with animals and plants is not always desirable. While the interest of visitors in i...

Hydroquinone when added to the aquarium water was found to be about a hundred times more toxic than phenol, to goldfish (and to Daphnia magna), but is only about twice as toxic when injected into fish or mammals. Tertiarybutyl catechol shows a similar high toxicity in the aquarium, while the toxicity of catechol, resorcinol, and pyrogallol approaches more closely that of phenol. As the substanc...

A network of nine Fish Replenishment Areas (FRA) reserves was demarcated in West Hawai’i in 2000 in response to declines of reef fishes taken by aquarium collectors. In 1999, we established 23 study sites in FRAs, areas open to collectors and reference areas (existing protected areas) to collect data both prior to and after the closure of the reserve network in 2000. To date we have conducted 3...

This is a preliminary report of our study on automatic generation of web directories. We now concentrate on generation of web directories for speci c categories such as aquarium, zoo, and museum. From only a category word (e.g., aquarium), our system generates the directory of the category's instances, in which instances are classi ed by geographical region, without any human interaction.