Rodgers Family Foundation Supports Lloyd Center’s Climate Science Learning Project with $10,000 Grant
The Lloyd Center has received yet another grant supporting our popular, ever-growing Climate Science Learning Project (CSLP)! We are happy to announce that the Rodgers Family Foundation has generously given the Center a $10,000 grant in support in support of our CSLP. Launched in 2011, this unique undertaking teaches science…
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Lloyd Center Gift Memberships A membership to the Lloyd Center for the Environment is a meaningful gift for any occasion that can be used all year round. Included in your Gift Membership price is a package mailed to the recipient. As a bonus, all memberships purchased by December 31, 2013…
Lloyd Center 2013 Annual Fund
We are asking for your support for the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s 2013 Annual Fund. Our goal is to raise a critical $100,000 to support the research, education and outreach programs the Lloyd Center provides to our community. Did you know, thanks to supporters like you: • The Lloyd…
Terrapins Hatching at Demarest Lloyd State Park; Nest Discovered at Apponagansett Park
It’s been relatively quiet at Demarest Lloyd State Park, after the site supported the most bustling shorebird community in its history including the most piping plover pairs ever for the site, and possibly the highest productivity in Massachusetts for a site of its size. A vibrant Least Tern colony added…
Towards Sustainability Foundation Supports Lloyd Center for the Environment’s Climate Science Learning Project With $5,000 Grant
Dartmouth, MA. – The Lloyd Center for the Environment has received a $5,000 grant from the Towards Sustainability Foundation in support of the Center’s Climate Science Learning Project (CSLP). Aligned with the Massachusetts curriculum frameworks in science and engineering, the CSLP focuses on the projected effects of climate change on…
Lloyd Center to hold SEANET Volunteer Workshop Saturday, November 2
Dartmouth, MA- The Lloyd Center for the Environment is seeking volunteers to join the SEANET (Seabird Ecological Assessment Network) program which involves using patterns of beached bird deposition along coastal shorelines to help detect the impact to our shores, seabird life, and the offshore marine environment. If you are a…
Preparing for Winter – Lloyd Center Pre-school Program – Tuesdays, November 5-26
Dartmouth, MA. – The Lloyd Center for the Environment is pleased to offer a Preparing for Winter Preschool Program on Tuesday mornings throughout November. Led by Outreach Specialist Jen Wimmer, the Center’s preschool outreach programs lead children and parents on an outdoor adventure, build on children’s curiosity in the outdoors…
Introducing “KokoKehom”, the Lloyd Center’s Eastern Screech Owl
During March of this year, we received an unlikely visit from a wild Eastern Screech Owl (Otis asio) (see sightings listings) in what must have been Mother Nature’s way of saying, prepare yourselves for what’s to come. Sure enough, later that month, we received our very own Screech Owl which…
Family Fun Day & Biodiversity Week Wrap-up
Thanks to grants from the Adelard and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation, The Braitmayer Foundation, CHT Foundation, Dominion Foundation, Island Foundation, Motorola Solutions Foundation, Rogers Family Foundation, Sounds Conservancy, and Towards Sustainability Foundation, the Lloyd Center held its Second Annual SouthCoast Biodiversity Week, ending with a Family Fun Day and Biodiversity Week Wrap-up…
Annual Slocum Challenge Regatta
On September 21, the eighth running of the Lloyd Center’s Annual Slocum Challenge Regatta brought a record 120 competitors out to the Slocum River Estuary. The regatta is open to racing shells, open-water shells, kayaks, canoes, surf-skis, traditional rowing boats, whaleboats, pilot gigs, and stand-up paddleboards, with separate age-categories for…
the Art drive Donates $5,300 to the Lloyd Center
Dartmouth, MA – Thirty Dartmouth and Westport artists that teamed up this summer to organize the annual open studio weekend, donated $5,300 to the Lloyd Center for the Environment in Dartmouth to be used to support the Center’s ongoing environmental science programs in the Westport and Dartmouth public schools. In…
Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards $7,000 Grant to Lloyd Center for the Environment
Boston, MA – The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), a state agency, has awarded the Lloyd Center for the Environment (Dartmouth, MA) a $7,000 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…
Piping Plovers – Closing Thoughts for 2013
On August 6, Lloyd Center plover staff attended the shorebird cooperators end-of-season meeting at Cape Cod Community College in Barnstable, MA. The meeting involved networking with other shorebird stewards and learning about plover events and news beyond our region, and how the birds are doing both far and wide. Here’s…
Community Foundation of Southeastern MA Awards $2,500 Grant to Lloyd Center
Grant received for the New Bedford Education Foundation “Boys and Girls Club Summer Programs” at the Lloyd Center Dartmouth, MA – The Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts (CFSEMA) – New Bedford Education Foundation Fund is pleased to announce the awarding of a grant to the Lloyd Center for the Environment for…
Eastern Screech Owl sighting at the Lloyd Center
On March 22, 2013, an unlikely visitor was seen on the Lloyd Center property. An Eastern Screech Owl (Otus asio) which was likely displaced by a significant late season snowfall that blanketed the region the night before, was roosting in the warm sun behind the old “goat shed” at the…
Lloyd Center Summer Interns
Every summer, the Lloyd Center offers internships to students pursuing careers in either environmental education and / or research. Our education interns assists the education staff in teaching hands-on science programs and maintaining the Center’s many live exhibits, while our research interns conduct Lepidoptera Inventories, and assist with Piping Plover…
Fox Pups Sighting
In May of this year, Ric Rheaume sighted some fox pups and got some great photos. He saw them at dusk near Pettey Lane in Westport. In his email to us he stated “The Lloyd Center was a huge part of my youth and where much of my love of…
Lloyd Center Participates in North American Butterfly Association’s (NABA) 39th Annual Butterfly Count
Lloyd Center Participates in North American Butterfly Association’s (NABA) 39th Annual Butterfly Count by Mark J. Mello, Research Director This year is the 26th consecutive year that the Lloyd Center has conducted a butterfly count as part of the nationwide survey organized by NABA, formerly the Xerces Society, so named…
Piping Plovers on Bristol County State Beaches – Mid-Season Update by Jamie Bogart
The 2013 plover season in Bristol County has arguably been the most intriguing and eventful one in the history of the initiative. Increased nesting habitat from Hurricane Sandy, first ever meetings with the Town of Fairhaven in response to increasing pair abundance and larger fenced refuges, oil spill restoration funding…
Art Drive to Preview eBay Auction Cod in Two Events
This year, two events will preview the 37 “Classic Cod” artworks created by local artists prior to the Art Drive’s annual eBay auction, which will start at 7 PM on Saturday, August 3 and end the evening of Monday, August 12 This is the fourth year that Art Drive artists…
Lloyd Center Clambake XXVIII – Simply the best! – A Must-Attend Event!
Mark your calendar and secure your reservation to one of the summer’s most popular events, the Lloyd Center’s CLAMBAKE XXVIII, known locally as ‘Simply, the best!’. Festivities will begin at 6 o’clock on the evening of Friday, July 12, by the side of the sea at Demarest Lloyd State Park…
George R. Nelson, M.D. Elected as Lloyd Center’s Chairman of the Board
Dartmouth, MA. – The Lloyd Center is pleased to announce that, at the first meeting of its Board of Directors following the Center’s annual meeting, George R. Nelson, M.D. was elected to a three-year term as chairman of the Board of Directors. A long-time supporter of the Lloyd Center, Dr.…
Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!
Butterfly Garden Transformation Thanks to a $300 grant from the Garden Club of Buzzards Bay (visit their website!) and Lloyd Center volunteers Elsa Yeung, Polly Sylvia, Sara Lederman, Chad Gonsalves and Shai Gonsalves, the Center’s butterfly garden has been spruced up for our colorful friends. Volunteers expanded the Center’s butterfly garden and…
Lloyd Center for the Environment is Looking to a Bright Future
By CHRISTINA STYANSpecial WriterMay 01, 2013 11:45 am DARTMOUTH — The Lloyd Center for the Environment held its 2013 annual meeting on April 22 at the Dartmouth Grange, with the agenda highlighted by the introduction of new Executive Director Rachel Stronach, whose “association” with the educational environmental organization dates back…