What grade would you give the infrastructure around your home? Do you think it could withstand natural hazards such as flooding or extreme heat? When hazards occur, our infrastructure can be greatly impacted. David Wieller, President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Lehigh Valley Section and the Water & Municipal Regional Leader for... Read More
What will our future climate be like? What tools can we use to be more resilient? Those were topics discussed during a webinar hosted by Nurture Nature Center on the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit as part of its CREATE Resilience NOAA Environmental Literacy Grant project. Guest speaker LuAnn Dahlman presented on the Toolkit, showing how... Read More
Nurture Nature Center shares social science research on improving the use of probabilistic hydrologic information in decision-making at the American Meteorological Society’s 100th Annual Meeting NNC Executive Director Rachel Hogan (right) and Science Director Kathryn Semmens (left) at the 100th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting in Boston, MA in January 2020. Rachel Hogan and Kathryn... Read More
You may hear about scientific discoveries or developments regularly in the news – from new images of black holes in space to new gene-editing techniques – but these findings can seem distant, foreign, and unrelated to your everyday local life. But what about science that affects your community? Community science that helps with issues that... Read More
Seeking book suggestions for your summer reading list? Curious about a new topic you have not yet explored but don’t want to jump into a book without knowing if it is worthwhile? This post was written by guest blogger, Lauren Fosbenner, Community Fellow in the Environmental Policy Design Master’s program at Lehigh University, to provide... Read More
This post was written by guest blogger, Lauren Fosbenner, Community Fellow in the Environmental Policy Design Master’s program at Lehigh University. Summer is a great time to gather outside with friends and family seeking stars. One way to explore far-off reaches of the galaxy without much special knowledge or equipment is to stargaze. Here are... Read More
This post was written by guest blogger, Lauren Fosbenner, Community Fellow in the Environmental Policy Design Master’s program at Lehigh University. Nurture Nature Center is currently filled with dramatic images of the effects of climate change in Alaska and around the world as portrayed by the Alaskan Journey: Artists Bear Witness to Climate Change art... Read More
Lauren Fosbenner, one of our summer interns who worked on the “6 Degrees of Connection” program, funded by a grant from NASA’s Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums, started a Community Fellowship with NNC at the end of August. Read More
As part of the “6 Degrees of Connection” project funded by a grant from NASA’s Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums (CP4SMP), the interns worked on developing an education program for middle school students about the interconnectedness of earth systems. Read More
Nurture Nature Center is honored to work with the City of Easton on the significant and positive step of setting a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target. NNC has worked with the City since 2017 to complete a greenhouse gas inventory to determine the amount of emissions from electricity, natural gas, and transportation. The inventory forms... Read More
