Fur and Feathers: Lloyd Center Offers Outreach Program
By Matthew Bernat | Mar 21, 2016 | Dartmouth Week The Lloyd Center for the Environment staff brought a wild scene to the children’s section of Barnes & Noble Saturday afternoon. Turtles, mice, salamanders, toads and a screech owl named Koko were displayed during an outreach event for the nonprofit. The…
MITS 2016 Summer Professional Development Institutes
2016 Summer Professional Development Institutes: Southeast Region Hybrid Institute for Grades 3-8 Educators To the Moon and Back: Engaging Your Students in Earth and Space Science Through Inquiry Blast off into inquiry-based learning with a journey from Earth to space in this hybrid course! Engage with online content, group discussions,…
Dartmouth Barnes & Noble hosts Bookfair to Benefit the Lloyd Center on Saturday, March 19, 12pm to 4pm
Support the Lloyd Center for the Environment at Barnes & Noble in Dartmouth, MA. In an effort to raise funds for their environmental science programs held in schools in New Bedford, Fall River, Dartmouth, and throughout Massachusetts, the Lloyd Center is working together with Barnes & Noble Booksellers by hosting…
Lloyd Center Winter Bird Roundup
Unlike last season, the current weather pattern and a snow-free landscape in late February prompts images of spring, and movements of forest birds are already occurring. More than 60 American Goldfinches and 15 Dark-eyed Juncos recently stopped by the Lloyd Center feeders, along with a handful of fresh plumage Red-winged…
Lloyd Center’s Upcoming Projects Detailed, Sustainability a Focus
By Seth Thomas | Dartmouth Week | Feb 28, 2016 This year the Lloyd Center will be embarking on the construction phase of their capital campaign. The capital campaign, which launched in 2015, aims to raise $3 million, half for educational programming and the other half for improving facilities and…
2016 Lloyd Center Internships Available
Education & Outreach Internships (May/June – August): Our Education and Outreach departments are in need of four interns for the summer of 2016. Interns will be responsible for assisting the education & outreach staff in teaching our hands-on science programs. The Lloyd Center’s educational philosophy is that hands-on experiential learning…
Peregrine Falcon Sighting
Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus On Wednesday February 17, birder Gary Reardon enjoyed a rare sighting, a Peregrine Falcon perched on a pole on Smith Neck Road in Dartmouth. Peregrines here along the coast are most often seen in fall and winter, after nesting is complete and both adults and…
Owl Night Long: Birders Listen for Hoots Beneath the Stars
By Seth Thomas | Feb 08, 2016 | Dartmouth Week Beneath a dazzling starlit sky, a small group searched for owls in the woods, but, much to the birders chagrin, the birds of prey clearly didn’t give a hoot. Over the weekend, about 10 people gathered at the Lloyd Center…
Lloyd Center Completes 29th Annual Winter Waterfowl Survey
On January 31, Lloyd Center staff and volunteers completed the 29th annual survey of waterfowl that spend the winter in estuaries and coastal ponds in our region. The survey took place from Apponagansett Bay in Dartmouth, Massachusetts to the Sakonnet River in Tiverton, Rhode Island and consisted of an early…
Three foundations donate to the Lloyd Center’s capital campaign
Three foundations have committed $25,000 each to the Lloyd Center’s $3 million “Transforming a Legacy” capital campaign to support a new green building and expanded educational programs. The Bafflin Foundation of Rhode Island donated toward site improvements in keeping with the efforts of its founder Lois Orswell to “support plants…
Lloyd Center’s New Touch Tank is Ready for Explorers!
The Lloyd Center is happy to announce the arrival of its new touch tank! After 25 years of faithful service, our old tank was taken offline for several weeks and torn down to accommodate the much needed upgrade. The new fiberglass tank is much easier to maintain, features 360 degree…
Where Have All the Sphinxes Gone?
We are not talking about the pharoah-headed lion defending the pyramids in Egypt. Instead these sphinxes are a family of moths whose caterpillars (Figure 1), when at rest or threatened by a predator, assume a sphinx-like position. This large family of moths, with at least 43 species recorded from Massachusetts,…
Lloyd Center’s Transforming A Legacy Campaign receives foundation grants
The Lloyd Center’s Capital Campaign, Transforming A Legacy, has received three generous foundation grants to support its educational programs and facilities improvements. The Bafflin Foundation has given the Center $25,000 to assist with site improvements in keeping with the lifetime efforts of Lois Orswell to “support plants and the earth”.…
Homeowners opt for solar panels in Dartmouth
Drivers will likely see more signs popping up around town instructing the viewer to look up. These arrows point toward solar panels installations, and there have been plenty of these projects in the works recently. Data on the Town’s solar permits reveal a steady trend over the past five years…
LLoyd Center’s new Welcome Center to be among world’s greenest buildings
Plans for the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s proposed Welcome Center include a drop-off center, visitor restrooms, gathering space, elements using felled trees and reclaimed wood on site, a handicap-accessible sloping grey-water treatment garden, all modeled to rigorous sustainability standards, according to a news release. The plan, drawn out by…
Transforming a Legacy Campaign ~ Lloyd Center’s New Welcome Center
New Bedford architect Kathryn Duff, founder and director of studio2sustain, inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts, presented a set of innovative and environmentally rigorous building plans for the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s proposed Welcome Center at Architecture Boston Expo (ABX 2015) in November. The plans are the blueprint for the…
Hip, Herp, Hurray!
Here at the Lloyd Center for the Environment, our educators work with children from a wide range of age-groups. Our herpetology, the study of reptiles and amphibians, lesson ‘Hip, Herp, Hurray!’ is designed for the littlest of our students, the preschoolers. As always, we strive to make this lesson both…
Lloyd Center for the Environment Awarded $8,800 Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA – The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), a state agency, has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment (Dartmouth, MA) an $8,800 Cultural Investment Portfolio Grant for public cultural programming. Awarded through a competitive process, this organizational support grant signifies that the Lloyd Center for the Environment provides a…
Delphi the Whale Visits Our Sisters’ School
Last week in New Bedford, Our Sisters’ School’s seventh-graders were joined by Lloyd Center Educators Jasmine Smith-Gillen and Morgan Gallagher, as well as Lloyd Center representative Delphi the Whale. Delphi is a life-size wooden replica of a Pilot Whale skeleton. From head to tail, she is 12 feet long and…
Support the Lloyd Center’s 2015 Annual Appeal
Please consider making a gift or monthly commitment, if you haven’t already. Your support of our Annual Appeal will ensure that the Lloyd Center can continue to provide inspirational environmental education experiences for students and visitors of all ages. It is easy to make an initial gift or rise to…
Stephen Rath Donates Proceeds from “Qigong for Wellbeing in Dementia and Aging” Sales to the Lloyd Center for the Environment
In his book “Qigong for Wellbeing in Dementia and Aging,” Stephen Rath, with his wife, Marcia, demonstrates the benefits of Qigong practice through the intersection of contemporary western studies with centuries old Chinese medical practices. With a deep personal investment in the wellbeing of those concerned with any aspect of…
CHT Foundation Supports Lloyd Center’s Watershed Information Pilot Project with $5,000 Grant
The Lloyd Center is pleased to announce that it has received a $5,000 grant from the CHT Foundation in support of the Center’s Watershed Information Pilot Project (WIPP). The grant will help to support the first year of WIPP, which aims to introduce two interactive, web-based learning tools into curricula…
Lloyd Center’s 25th Annual New Year’s Day Beach Walk
Dartmouth / Westport, MA – Looking for fresh air, exercise, or to learn more about the natural world around you? If so, this is the perfect trip for you! Join Research Director Mark Mello for a Lloyd Center tradition of 25 years and celebrate the New Year with a peaceful…
United Way of Greater New Bedford’s $4,500 Summer Fund Grant Provides Life-long Memories to Students
This past summer, the United Way of Greater New Bedford awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment a $4,500 Summer Fund Grant. This Grant made it possible for the Lloyd Center to offer financial assistance to students that otherwise, would not have been able to participate in the Center’s summer…