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Planning a Field Trip?
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We welcome class/group visits to the museum and tailor the visit to meet the outcomes expressed by the teacher or coordinator. We have accommodated school groups that range from first grade to university level and others such as Elderhostel, class reunions and family reunions.
Visits include a 30-45 minute group presentation that covers the science of tsunamis, historical information about Hilo, and personal accounts of survivors. There is a worksheet available upon request for elementary and intermediate students and should be requested in advance so you may make enough copies for your group. An hour and a half is the recommended visit time, but please allow at least an hour to allow students to be able to view the exhibits and use the worksheet we have developed.
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Hawaii State
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Students (6-17)
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$2.00
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University of Hawai'i at Hilo students
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$3.00
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Hawai'i Community College Students
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$3.00
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UH or other colleges
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$6.00
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Out of State |
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Students (6-17)
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$5.00
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University/Colleges |
$7.00
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For every 10 students, one adult may come in free.
Adults accompanying the group in excess of that number pay:
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General Admission Fees
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General Admission |
$7.00 |
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Kama'aina |
$6.00 |
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Senior |
$6.00 |
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The Pacific Tsunami museum is open six days a week from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. We require a minimum of 15 students for a presentation, and our facility can easily handle up to 45 students at one time. For larger groups you may coordinate the museum visit with another activity such as the
NOAA Discovery Center - Mokupapapa, the
East Hawaii Cultural Center, the
Lyman House Memorial Museum or the
'Imiloa Astronomy Center.
Advance arrangements must be made by calling Colleen at 808-935-0926. You may also fax in a
request to 808-935-0842 or e-mail to
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Payment can be either by purchase order or by check or cash on the day of the visit.
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Tsunami Observer Program
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In June 2006, the Pacific Tsunami Museum was awarded a contract to manage the Tsunami Observer Program, which is funded by NOAA and sponsored by Hawaii State Civil Defense. This program has been set up to record all important data associated with a tsunami event including footage of the wave inundating the coastline and wave runup heights in a post tsunami field survey.
The program consists of: 44 volunteer Tsunami Observers, spread across Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Oahu and Hawaii, 2 Technical Directors, George Curtis and Daniel Walker, and a Program Manager, Genevieve Cain. When a tsunami WATCH is issued all Tsunami Observers will be alerted by phone tree system, they will then set up recording equipment at safe locations to monitor the waves as they come ashore. Following a large tsunami event, Tsunami Observers will be deployed into the field to carry out a comprehensive post-tsunami field survey which will record an array of data including runups, building damages as well as information from eyewitnesses.
The Tsunami Observers had their first real taste as a Tsunami Observer when they received calls on the evening of January 12th, 2007 following the 8.3 Mw earthquake in the Kuril Islands. The Tsunami Observers all performed extremely well and we are thrilled to be working with such wonderful volunteers on this project.
Our future outreach programs include but are not limited to: working with the downtown Hilo businesses to help them become better prepared for the next tsunami, creating and preparing exhibits for the openings of tsunami museums in Thailand and India and also a promotional DVD for the museum.
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Hawaiian Paradise Park - Emergency Notification Evacuation Team
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The
Hawaiian Paradise Park - Emergency Notification Evacuation Team is a volunteer non-profit group, organized to help ensure the safety and welfare of the residents of Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big Island of Hawaii during times of disaster or crisis. It was formed in February of 2005 to assist in educating residents in planning, preparedness and response to disasters, including tsunamis.
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Manny Mattos, founder of the HPP-ENET, is a retired Honolulu police officer. Born and raised on Oahu he remembers the 1957, 1960 and 1964 tsunamis. He has seen the need for tsunami education in the schools and has created a presentation with handouts from
NOAA. Manny has been visiting schools around the Big Island of Hawaii promoting tsunami awareness.
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NOAA Recognizes the Big Island as
TsunamiReady
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Hawaii County is the last county to become
TsunamiReady, which will make Hawaii the first TsunamiReady State. Through the TsunamiReady program, NOAA's National Weather Service gives communities the skills and education needed to survive a tsunami before, during and after the event. TsunamiReady helps community leaders and emergency managers strengthen their local tsunami operations.
On July 29, 2005 the Museum hosted NOAA officials along with Service Directors and Emergency Management Directors from Indian Ocean countries to honor this event. The NOAA program will aid these Indian Ocean delegates in establishing guidelines for emergency preparedness in their communities. The official TsunamiReady ceremony was held in August 2005.
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Volunteer as a docent at the Pacific Tsunami Museum
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Want an opportunity
to meet interesting people from all over the world?
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Visitors coming to the Pacific Tsunami Museum are independent, well-educated travelers who are finding in East Hawaii an environment rich in natural beauty and wonderful people. The museum is an attraction that is interesting from not only a scientific perspective but from a cultural and historic view as well. Volunteer docents in the museum greet each visitor and give them a brief background in tsunamis and how Hawaii has been affected by them. As they relate the stories of Hilo and Laupahoehoe, the visitors get an insight into how the fabric of our communities have been shaped by these waves.
We are now in the process of recruiting docents and are looking for persons who like people and are willing to visit and converse with them. We ask for three-four hours per week in shifts from 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 or 1:00 p.m. or 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m on Mondays through Saturdays.
The museum provides not only an enriching experience for tourists, but for local residents as well. Approximately 35% of our visitors are residents of Hawaii and many come to reconnect with their family and community history here in Hilo and Laupahoehoe. Many docents have been surprised with meeting old friends and family right here in the museum. If you are interested in being a docent, please call 935-0926.
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1975 Tsunami
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The museum is now collecting oral histories, photographs, and information regarding the tsunami which struck November 29th, 1975. If anyone has any photographs or stories that they would like to share, please call us at the museum at 808-935-0926.
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Tsunami Robot
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Virtual Human Demobot for tsunami information
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An independent company, Cyber Human Heuristic and Automation Wonders, has volunteered to maintain an algorithm that will keep providing answers to tsunami queries. The company primarily deals with Artificial Intelligence based Human Interactive Software products. The service that they are providing is referred to as a SchmoozeBot.
Click on the link below to see the demo version and give it a try!
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Tsunami Robot
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If you would like more information on tsunamis
check out these areas:
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Introducing the Pacific Tsunami Museum's
East Hawai'i Walking/Driving Tour
of Historical Tsunami Sites
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The Pacific Tsunami Museum in down-town Hilo, has extended its walls into the community, and is pleased to announce the first self-guided walking and driving tours of historical tsunami sites in the world. The tour takes place within our East Hawai'i tsunami corridor, which stretches from the Northern end of the Hamakua Coast down to the popular strip of beaches in Keaukaha and is open to all visitors, residents and children.
Through an eclectic mixture of descriptive stories, survivor quotes and historic photographs, visitors and residents will have the opportunity to take a virtual trip back in time to the fateful morning of April 1st, 1946, and the deadly night of May 22nd, 1960. Companioned with a descriptive brochure and a greeting at tsunami sites by an educational sign, participants will experience with their own eyes the true legacy of a tsunami.
Brochures are free and available at numerous locations such as the Laupahoehoe Train Museum, the Pacific Tsunami Museum, the Wailoa Center and the Port of Hilo. It contains information and directions which will make the tour more comfortable as well as improve educational experience. The tour is also geared towards educating children and aims to provide an interactive family experience. Family activity books accompany the guidebook in the summer season as well as the permanent activity corner on the educational sign.
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Presenting the new Interactive Historic Hilo Tsunami Walk!
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All materials © Copyright 1996-2007 Pacific Tsunami Museum Inc.
130 Kamehameha Ave Hilo, HI 96720 tel: 808-935-0926 FAX: 808-935-0842
email:
Last Revised November 2007
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