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Naturalist Alan Berman |
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Naturalist Mike Rowinsky ready to dissect a shark |
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At the
touch tank with summer interns.
The tank was purchased with the help of a grant from
Touch Tanks for Kids.
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Summer Interns |
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Greens Farms Academy
Miguel Silvestri - Angad-Raj Singh |
Staples
High School
Annie Harnick - AJ Kieffer
Erica Mayer - Matt Wormser |
Weston
High School
Emma Gunuey |
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The
new Nature Center
was open during the 2009 summer season.
This page is a glimpse of what went on there.
The Center will open again in spring 2010. |
The naturalists were
Alan Berman and Mike Rowinsky. Together with summer interns and volunteer docents
they offered morning
and afternoon activities every day: Birding walks,
nature trail walks, arts and crafts, talks about marine
biology, avian ecology, more ...
An end-of-season letter from Alan Berman
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 Live
critters |
Nature
Trail |
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aquariums, terrariums, intertidal tanks and a touch
tank, Lobsters, crabs, fish, starfish, frogs, turtles,
snakes, mussels, oysters, clams .. |
The
salt-marsh nature trail behind the Nature Center was restored. Commentary by Alan Berman is on the signs
at each station, and more documentation is available
inside the Center.
Trail map
More about the marsh
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Arts and crafts |
Dissections
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Birdhouses
- kitemaking
On July 9, about 50 people, mostly kids, made 22
birdhouses for the park.
 See slide show |
Owl pellets
Marine life: shark, squid, octopus, more ...
A chance for children to learn about marine biology and
ask questions.
Photo:
raised hands |
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2009 Thursday evening lectures
The Nature
Center hosted a series of free lectures on Thursday
evenings, 6:30 pm. |
Horseshoe-crab tagging. Dr. Jennifer Mattei, Chair of
the Department of Biology at Sacred Heart University, on
Project Limulus, a long-term horseshoe-crab tagging
project.
Tree and shrub care. Arborist Doug Williams on
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and best practices for
tree and shrub care.
The Basics of Bird Photography. A.J. Hand on the
techniques he uses to capture photos of
sometimes-elusive birds in the wild.
Plastics debris in our oceans. Nature Center naturalist
Mike Rowinsky on his work with the Algalita Marine
Research Foundation and the North Pacific Sub-tropical
Gyre (NPSG).
Sea turtles. Nature Center naturalist Alan Berman on his
coordination of a sea turtle project in Costa Rica to
help save these ancient and endangered species from
extinction.
"Taking Flight and Getting Your Wings"-How to be a
birdwatcher!
Tina Green on why, where and how she got into bird
watching. Tips on how to get started.
Aldo Leopold, Environmental Ethics and Salt
Marshes.David R. Brown Sc.D. on the ideas of Aldo
Leopold, the father of wildlife conservation, who
introduced the idea of Environmental Ethics in his 1949
landmark book “A Sand County Almanac.”
Buried Resources Under Sherwood Island: How Archaeology
Reveals History
Cece Saunders, Historical Perspectives. |
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