As 2025 comes to a close, the faces tell the story best.

Curiosity. Confidence. Joy. These expressions – captured in classrooms, around our touch tank, and on field trips focused on…

For the last several weeks in Fresno, visible water has slowed down.

The days are shorter. Mornings have been arriving quietly, regularly blanketed by our famous Tule Fog, while our rivers move a little differently – cooler, calmer, reflective. It’s a season that invites us to pause and…

Every major community project begins the same way—with an empty site and a…

A “flood pulse” is one of the most important — and least understood — natural processes that shape healthy rivers. After heavy rain or snowmelt, water spreads across a river’s floodplain, soaking into soils, replenishing groundwater, and reconnecting seasonal wetlands. These temporary expansions of the river are essential drivers of life.

This pair of new Herndon Ave railroad undercrossings will make access to the Fresno Aquarium easier.

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.

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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.

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.