New Herndon Ave Railroad Undercrossing Starts Construction
This pair of new Herndon Ave railroad undercrossings will make access to the Fresno Aquarium easier.
Fresno Aquarium
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is being built on our 10 acres along Hwy 99
overlooking the San Joaquin River
Your tax-deductible support is urgently needed to build our very first building!
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2025 Teaching Tidepools School Program
Your support of the Fresno Aquarium project helps expand our current educational programs like this one! Our exciting outreach is establishing quality, science-based educational opportunities today and for our Valley’s future.
2024 Charter Member Dinner
On October 6. 2024, we celebrated our annual Charter Member Dinner at the beautiful Sunnyside Country Club with entertainment by Fresno-favorite Ed Burke.
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You have the power to make a significant impact!
Generous Donations from People Like You to our From the Ground Up capital campaign are building the nonprofit Fresno Aquarium along the San Joaquin River DEBT-FREE into the future!
We’d love for you to join us!!
Every gift, no matter the size, brings us that much closer to opening our very first building.
This is why the nonprofit 501(c)(3) Aquarius Aquarium Institute urgently needs your tax-deductible support right away to continue the progress donors just like you have already made toward building this exciting project.
2023 Charter Member Dinner
Charter Members enjoyed a delicious dinner at the Sunnyside Country Club this year. Members and guests watched and listened to an update on our current programs and the Fresno Aquarium project and also had plenty of time to socialize while listening…
Friant Dam Water Goes Over Spillway
Photo by Charter Member Carol Maul
July 2023 – Snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountain range just to the east of Fresno sent water cascading into the San Joaquin River this summer, causing Millerton Lake to rise to the top of Friant Dam and over its spillway.
Atmospheric Rivers
San Joaquin River at high flow at the Fresno Aquarium property, January 2023
As a series of Atmospheric Rivers once again bring large amounts of rain and snow to California this winter, the San Joaquin River along the Fresno Aquarium property is currently flowing high and fast.
Tom Lang onThe Ray Appleton Show10-26-22
Our executive Director, Tom Lang, appeared on KMJ radio’s The Ray Appleton Show today to give an update on the Fresno Aquarium project and address the Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s plan to add an Aquarium building within the Zoo inside Roeding Park in about 10 years.
2022 Charter Member Dinner
Every year, we thank our generous Charter Members with a FREE dinner! Click here for more photos.
It’s Charter Members and Donors just like you who make our current nonprofit educational programs in our schools possible and keep the Fresno Aquarium project moving forward! Many of our Charter Members are also Donors to the Fresno Aquarium and know how important it is to support both current and future programs.
Betty Jane Jura
Betty Jane Jura, age 94, of Fresno, California passed away on Monday, August 22, 2022. Betty was born June 13, 1928 in Fort Madison, Iowa.
She and her husband Roy first donated 5, then 10 acres of their land to the Fresno Aquarium in 2006.
Betty Jane Wood married Roy Jura in 1950 and were farmers as they raised their children, Scott, Teri and Keith.
Aquarius Aquarium Institute Charter Members will always remember the fun Charter Member dinners on the front lawn of the Jura residence, just downstream from the Fresno Aquarium property and the enthusiastic support that Betty and Roy had for the Aquarium project from its very beginnings.