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In the News
April 2008
Workshop will focus on hybrid, electric driving
The "Driving Green" workshop on Saturday is third in the trio of "Shrink Your Footprint" workshops...[read more]
February 2008
 Lloyd Center Owl Prowl
Long before the sun had risen on the cold, calm morning of February 17, a crew of die-hard birders headed...[read more]
Winter Waterfowl Count
On Sunday February 3, 2008, Lloyd Center staff, scientists and volunteer surveyors completed the second count for this season’s annual winter waterfowl survey...[read more]
January 2008
 Cuttyhunk Seal Watch
On a beautiful winter day, dozens of curious area residents headed out into Buzzards Bay to see...[read more]
Lloyd Center’s Feathery Focus Program Brings Science to Quin n School classes
Once a month, Lloyd Center Educators arrive in Quinn Elementary School’s third-grade classrooms...[read more]
Piping Plover Volunteer "Protectors" Needed
Spend warm, sunny days on the beach of your choice, helping protect the endangered piping plover, a shorebird...[read more]
December 2007
Lloyd Center awarded grants to support science programs
The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust, and the Rodgers Family Foundation have awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment grants to support its Science Curriculum Reform and Development Initiative. [read more]
 Winter Waterfowl
On Sunday December 2, 2007, the Lloyd Center completed the first phase of its 20th annual winter waterfowl survey... [read more]
November 2007
 Students come face to face with environment
Fifth-grade students from Quinn Elementary School visited the Lloyd Center for the Environment recently as part of the Turn-the-Tide Education Program. Donning hip boots and nets...[read more]
The Home Gallery's "Hike of the Month"
by Karen Holmes
"When I got out of my car in the parking lit, a large bird cast a shadow over me..." [read more]
Lloyd Center for the Environment seeks some volunteers to conduct South Coast beach surveys
Attention beach walkers: The Lloyd Center for the Environment is seeking volunteers to adopt a beach of their choice...[read more]
October 2007
 Terrapin hatchlings recently released at Dartmouth marsh
Nine baby diamondback terrapin turtles recently received a head start on their wild lives when Lloyd Center research associate Jamie Bogart released them...[read more]
September 2007
 Slocum River Regatta Races On Despite Early Rainy Weather
Saturday morning was raw and rainy, one of those ideal mornings to sleep in, tucked quietly under down comforters and soft sheets, but not for all the boaters involved... [read more]
 Supporters enjoy the benefits of membership
Celebrating the coming of the fall season, hundreds of enthusiastic Lloyd Center members gathered at the Center’s Hardscrabble Farm nature preserve...[read more]
Grocery Store Receipt Programs Add Up!
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August 2007
 Lloyd Center's Newest Employee
The young red-shouldered hawk now in residence at the Lloyd Center for the Environment has a new lease on life, thanks to its rescue by a pair of Dartmouth residents. [read more]
July 2007
 Clambake XXII
Friday the 13th may be an unlucky day for many, but for those seeking to raise the level of environmental protection here on the South Coast, that very date just marked a particularly auspicious beginning to the 2007 summer season. Casting away all superstition, supporters of the Lloyd Center for the Environment filled all 750 seats at the Center’s...[read more]
June 2007
Bridge-to-Discovery Update
The topography of land forming the banks of the Slocum River, the fragility of its bordering salt-marshes and the absence of any significantly graded shoreline, has over the years made the “discovery” of much of what the river has to offer tantalizingly just beyond the reach of our teachers, our scientists, our members and the parts of the public we strive to serve. [read more]
May 2007
Westport third-graders enjoying innovative science program
With a $2,000 grant to work with, all third-grade classes in Westport are taking part in a new science curriculum through the Lloyd Center. [read more]
Rothschild to keynote Lloyd Center Annual Meeting
The Lloyd Center for the Environment will host its annual meeting on Wednesday, featuring presentations by a prominent local scientist and a longtime environmental advocate. [read more]
Another successful year for the Lloyd Center
The Lloyd Center for the Environment held its annual meeting on May 2nd from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. in the beautiful New Bedford Public Library. The Wednesday meeting was held in the main lecture hall on the third floor...[read more]
April 2007
Attendees at the “Going Green” forum at the Quinn Elementary learned the basic principals for a “sustainable approach to residential design and construction...[read more]
February 2007
INSIDE SCIENCE: Citizen scientists keep track of birds
For 20 years, volunteers from the Lloyd Center for the Environment in South Dartmouth have braved frigid weather to count waterfowl wintering in local estuaries and points south. Mark Mello, research director of the non-profit Lloyd Center...[read more]
December 2006
The Lloyd Center's Feathery Focus Program brings science to third-graders in Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Fall River and Westport
Created five years ago, Feathery Focus is an integrated approach to learning using different teaching techniques to capture students’ attention. The primary goal of this program is to introduce third graders to the dynamic and complex...[read more]
November 2006
SEANET Volunteer Opportunity
SEANET (Seabird Ecological Assessment Network), of which the Lloyd Center is a key partner with Tufts Veterinary School of Conservation Medicine, brings together interdisciplinary researchers and volunteers in a long-term...[read more]
October 2006
Lloyd Center Awarded $2,500 Grant from the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts
The Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment a grant of $2500. This grant, given through the Community Foundation’s Rainy Day Fund, has been given to the...[read more]
 Bumper Year for Lloyd Center Monarch Butterfly Tagging
According to Senior Educator/Naturalist Liz Moniz, this has been a “bumper year” for tagging Monarch butterflies. As leader of the Lloyd Center’s famous Monarch-Tagging Program, she reports that children attending this highly...[read more]
 Lloyd Center Fun-Fest Draws Huge Crowd
Hundreds of enthusiastic visitors, some of them experiencing the wonders of Dartmouth’s Lloyd Center for the very first time, shook off last Sunday afternoon’s rainstorm and dove headlong into an afternoon filled...[read more]
September 2006
 Van Vleck Appointed Director of Institutional Advancement at Lloyd Center
Former Manager of International Administration at The Boston Company and Senior Research Analyst at the Memphis-based Catalog Media Corporation, Sarah Van Vleck has been appointed to the full-time position of...[read more]
Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards $15,700 Grant to the Lloyd Center
The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), a state agency, has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment (Dartmouth, MA) a grant of $15,700 to support its Science Curriculum Reform and Development initiative. Financial support from the MCC’s Organizational Support Program enables the Lloyd Center to provide science programs to schools that might not otherwise be able to afford them...[read more]
1st Annual “Slocum River Regatta” a Rowing Success
With Les De Groot, Committee Chairman at the helm, the first annual Slocum River Regatta proved to be nothing short of an outstanding success. The Regatta, formed in an effort to introduce new faces to the beauty of the Slocum River...[read more]
July 2006
 Lloyd Center Environmental Fundraiser Breaks Records for Coastal Protection
Dancing the night away under the big tent by the side of the sea and bidding-high on a glamorous array of items and services donated for auction, south-coast residents, corporations, and citizens from all over New England joined...[read more]
Lloyd Center Awarded $35,000 Braitmayer Grant
Dartmouth, MA – The Braitmayer Foundation has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment a grant of $35,000 to support its Science Curriculum Reform and Development initiative. This award will directly fund the expansion...[read more]
June 2006
Lloyd Center Awarded $4000 Grant from Norcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY - The Norcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc. has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment (Dartmouth, Massachusetts) a grant of $4,000. This grant has been given to the Lloyd Center to support the acquisition of a...[read more]
Hottest Ticket in Town – All Sold Out
 What’s the hottest ticket in town? Thought is was Pedro going up against his former teammates in Fenway Park? Not according to the knowledgeable citizens of the south-coast, who gobbled up every one of the 750 tickets to the area’s...[read more]
1st Annual Slocum River Regatta
 To celebrate the completion of it’s new waterfront pier and launching float, the Lloyd Center for the Environment is establishing an annual regional regatta, the “Slocum River Regatta ”...[read more]
May 2006
New Nature-View Tower Completed
With the financial backing of the Henry H. Crapo Foundation, construction of the new “Stairway-to-the-Stars” nature-view tower, with “view-scape” platforms and secondary egress from all three floors of the visitor center, has been completed. The tower is the only bird-watching facility of its kind in the Greater New Bedford area...[read more]
 Charity Navigator
America’s largest independent evaluator of charities, salutes the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s charitable efforts with a four star rating. Receiving four out of a possible four stars indicates that an organization excels, as compared to other charities in America...[read more]
April 2006
Lloyd Center Welcomes New Board Members
Brian J. Rothschild, Ph.D. and Tina I. Nauman have been elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors. Dr. Rothschild, retiring Dean of the Intercampus Graduate School of Marine Sciences and Technology at the University of Massachusetts, is Director of the School for Marine Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Fisheries Recovery Commission...[read more]
Scallop Expert to Address Lloyd Center Annual Meeting
Professor Kevin D. E. Stokesbury, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Fisheries and Oceanography at UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science and Technology, has accepted an invitation to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Lloyd Center for the Environment (Dartmouth)...[read more]
March 2006
Educator / Naturalist Joins Education Department
Tricia Sheppard, Lloyd Center Education Director, is pleased to announce that Bruce Hutchings, a Franklin Pierce College environmental science graduate, has accepted appointment to the position of Associate Educator-Naturalist. A former AmeriCorps staffer at Rhode Island’s Norman Bird Sanctuary...[read more]
February 2006
Mello Selected by National Park Service to Conduct Cape Cod Survey
Mark Mello, Director of Research at the Lloyd Center and nationally renowned lepidopterist has been selected by the National Park Service to conduct a survey, mapping the distribution of a state-listed moth, the water-willow stem borer (Papaipema sulphurata), within the diked systems of Truro’s East Harbor and Wellfleet’s Herring River...[read more]
Lloyd Center’s Seal-Watch a Huge Success
Despite repeated warnings of an impending storm, the twenty-three nature enthusiasts who bravely signed onto the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s mid-winter Penikese Island Seal-Watch were rewarded with a surprisingly balmy day, calm seas and a record number of active wintering seals...[read more]
December 2005
The Lloyd Center for the Environment conducted its nineteenth annual Waterfowl Census on Sunday, December 4th...[read more]
August 2005
The New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site Teacher Workshop, aimed at helping New Bedford teachers to incorporate ‘Fish Smart’ and other environmental messages into their class curricula, took place July 26th and 27th at various sites in New Bedford and Dartmouth...[read more]
April 2005
 The Lloyd Center staff are not the only Slocums river residents exploring their upgrading facilities these days. The ice from the past winter uprooted and took away an artificial nesting platform used for years by our very own breeding pair of Ospreys...[read more]
Terrapin Gets a New Name - Squirt
In the wild, Squirt would be dodging seagulls, fish, raccoons and all the other threats that make survival dicey for little Diamondback Terrapins. But for this lively turtle, life is good among the seventh graders in Betsy Dickinson's Westport Middle School science classroom...[read more]
Environment Secretary attends Lloyd Center program in Dartmouth Middle School. The Secretary of Environmental Affairs, Ellen Herzfelder, attended a Lloyd Center program at the Quinn Elementary School.
The program teaches students about environmental stewardship of the Buzzards Bay watershed and is a part of the Turn the Tide project. This is a Windows Media (WMV format) clip aired on Comcast Cable channel 9... [download and play clip - 3.6 MB]
March 2005
 Environmental, educational communities mourn Alan Hankin.
Alan Lee Hankin, the founding executive director of the Katharine Nordell Lloyd Center in Dartmouth and the principal architect of the Massachusetts Environmental Education Plan, died unexpectedly on Tuesday...[read more]
February 2005
 Terrapins Find Temporary Sanctuary at Lloyd Center
Two baby Diamondback Terrapins will get a head start on life in the wild at the Lloyd Center in Dartmouth. Once they've matured a little in the center's protective sanctuary, the terrapins will be released to the wild...[read more]
December 2004
 Monarch Recovery
The Lloyd Center for the Environment just received notification from Monarch Watch that one of the Monarch butterflies tagged by students from Westport Elementary School was recovered in the El Rosario reserve in Mexico. The butterfly had traveled 2,290 from Westport to the over-wintering grounds in the mountains of central Mexico!...[read more]
October 2004
 Striving to Make a Difference
While working for an environmental group might seem light years away from a career in the city, the transition has been a natural one for D'Arcy MacMahon, executive director of the Lloyd Center for the Environment...[read more]
Students put science lessons to work
Fifth-grade students at Cushman Elementary School took the lessons they learned in the classroom out to the environment at the Lloyd Center in Dartmouth last week...[read more]
September 2004
 Saving plovers is priority for Lloyd Center
Fledgling piping plovers blending into the pebbles on Horseneck Beach are part of a success story. Working with the federally endangered species, Lloyd Center Jamie Bogart has spent his summer making sure beachgoers stay away from the baby plovers before they fly south...[read more]
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