Do you feel connected to the Earth? Do you think you can affect global systems through your local actions? Nurture Nature Center is currently halfway through a two-year NASA funded grant project, entitled “6 Degrees of Influence – Understanding the Interconnectedness of Earth Systems,” intended to educate middle school students about Earth systems and inspire... Read More
2017 has been quite the year for hurricanes and it is only a little more than half over at the time of this blog post (late September). Hurricane Harvey (late August 2017) was the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2005 Hurricane Wilma. It set the record for rainfall, with... Read More
Join Nurture Nature Center in Celebrating Earth Day with a Series of Special Events April 21 – 23, 2017 Nurture Nature Center invites the community to celebrate Earth Day 2017 through art, science, and gardening events to be held Friday April 21st to Sunday April 23rd. There is something for every interest! We will kick... Read More
For the first time in 30 years 11 new cloud types were named and added to the International Cloud Atlas. Smart phones helped make it happen – citizens just like you took photos and shared what they observed. Join us this Thursday for our Sphere Spotlight on clouds! See beautiful images of clouds on our... Read More
It isn’t all weather and earth science on the Sphere, we also have human related datasets. In this Human Transportation dataset, global transportation on land, in air, and by sea shows our human footprint and all the energy we use to support our interconnectedness. Red lines represent 87,000 daily flights, blue lines represent the paths... Read More
Snow – you either love it or hate it. For many it doesn’t seem like Christmas unless it is white. Snow and ice have a very important role in regulating climate. The cryosphere (areas covered by ice, snow, glaciers, or permafrost) is extremely dynamic, changing each season and with changing climate. Snow and ice reflect... Read More
Nurture Nature Center's project, called 6 Degrees of Influence: Understanding the Interconnectedness of Earth Systems, supports NASA's education mission to advance high quality STEM education through the development of NOAA Science on a Sphere and related programming for middle school students, teachers, and minority undergraduates. Read More
For the past several years, NNC has been developing and refining a process for leading community conversations about important environmental topics. That model, “From Risk to Resiliency,” has been shared across the country with other science centers and institutions. Today, NNC hosted a dialogue forum with the Easton Hunger Coalition, and … Read More