Nurture Nature Center is excited and proud to announce that Jeff Mucklin, NNC Outreach Educator, was selected to serve as a NASA Solar System Ambassador – a volunteer public engagement program. Jeff will be a volunteer representative to our local community and share exciting science and news of space exploration and discoveries. Local and regional... Read More -
NNC’s ongoing research into the public response to flood and hydrologic forecasts was highlighted in three separate presentations at the 2018 annual American Meteorological Society conference in Austin, Texas this week. Executive Director Rachel Hogan Carr presented on NNC’s work with the Weather Prediction Center of the National Weather Service (NWS), which focused on improving... Read More -
All panelists encouraged the planners to think outside the box and expand their conception of what is possible while looking toward the future with optimism. Read More -
What a turnout! Nurture Nature Center hosted almost 600 solar eclipse watchers on Monday August 21st during an Eclipse Party from 1- 4 pm. Everyone had a great time sharing the unique experience as a community. The eclipse peaked around 2:43 pm with the moon covering about 75% of the sun. Read More -
Since 2012, Nurture Nature Center has conducted a series of social science research studies on the ways that residents and emergency managers in flood-prone communities throughout the Eastern United States use various flood forecast products issued by NWS, to help make recommendations for how they can be improved to become easier to understand and more... 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 -
Nurture Nature Center is hosting a review course and certification exam in January. The review course, conducted by Cleighton Smith Engineering LLC, consists of a one and a half day class ( January 12 and 13) to present and discuss key concepts of floodplain management through FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The CFM Exam... 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 -
On June 8, 2011, more than 70 people gathered in a ceremony to light the first exhibit in the new Nurture Nature Center at 518 Northampton Street and collectively gasped in awe as a six-foot suspended globe turned on and shone a beautiful image of Earth as seen from an astronaut's point of view. Ahnert... Read More -