Wednesday Bird Walks Return to the Lloyd Center
Wednesday Bird Walks are returning to the Lloyd Center property, which offers a diversity of habitats that attract birds year-round. Oak-hickory forest, cedars and hollies, red maple swamp, vernal pools, estuary, salt marsh, and a bird feeding station, all host species of songbirds, raptors, waterfowl and shorebirds, depending upon the…
Massachusetts Cultural Council Awards Lloyd Center for the Environment $14,300 Grant
The Lloyd Center for the Environment, Inc. has received a grant of $14,300 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), a state agency. This grant was awarded through the MCC’s Cultural Investment Portfolio Grant Program for cultural public programing. State grants are awarded through a competitive process, thereby signifying that the…
Lloyd Center Returns to Herring River
The Lloyd Center (in particular former Research Director Mark Mello), in carving a unique niche of extensive Lepidoptera research, has a history of tracking the status and progress of a particularly storied moth species, the “Water Willow Stem Borer” (Papaipema sulfurata). The moth has very specific habitat requirements, with larvae…
A Fun Day at the Lloyd Center’s Music in the Woods!
What a beautiful day it was this past Saturday, celebrating the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s second Music in the Woods event. Both Lloyd Center members and the general public came out to enjoy another musical day on the Center’s trails and grounds. Family and friends gathered together to…
Lloyd Center Moth Sampling at Rhode Island Restoration Sites Completed
On the evening of September 14, the sun was setting both at Nicolas Farm Wildlife Management Area in Greene, RI, and on the sampling season for a project covering multiple sites under habitat restoration regimes; a slight haze visible on the horizon. This was likely the same haze caused in…
Lloyd Center Collaborates in Wade Institute for Science Education’s 2022 STEM Challenge: Extreme Zoo Makeover: A STEM Approach to Habitat Design
The Lloyd Center for the Environment is collaborating with the Wade Institute for Science and the Buttonwood Park Zoo in an inquiry-based engineering design: 2022 STEM Challenge, “Extreme Zoo Makeover: A STEM Approach to Habitat Design.” The Challenge includes an optional professional development workshop for educators, a curriculum guide, and a materials…
Lloyd Center Summer Programs Come to a Close
Another snake catching, marsh mucking, elephant toothpaste exploding, summer at the Lloyd Center! This time, in mask-free style. The Lloyd Center for the Environment completed another fantastic summer of programs. “A whirlwind of fun!” noted by the instructors. Students immersed themselves in nature, socialized, and shared their excitement with their…
Blending Theory into Practice: A Lloyd Center Student-Centered Coastal Ecology Summer Course!
The ultimate goal of environmental education is to provide students with a platform that leads them to be well-informed and motivated towards mitigating the effects of growing environmental challenges. Organizations, like Lloyd Center for the Environment, play a major role in providing students with such platforms where they can learn…
Lloyd Center’s Music in the Woods Returns! – Saturday, September 24
Join us at the Lloyd Center for the Environment on Saturday, September 24 for the second Music in the Woods event, a free benefit for Lloyd Center members. Both Lloyd Center members and the general public are invited to enjoy a very musical afternoon on the Center’s trails and grounds…
Lloyd Center Wildlife Adapts to Drought Conditions
by Jamie Bogart, Lloyd Center Research Associate As late summer rolls in, the “dog days” end, and we divert our attention away from the beach; we observe an interior landscape in flux. Birds are migrating while insects are jumping between plants or flowers. Some birds have messy plumages in mid-molt…
Lloyd Center 2nd Annual Music in the Woods
Join us at the Lloyd Center on Saturday, September 24 (rain date Sunday, September 25) for this free event for Lloyd Center Members! Member registration opens on Thursday, September 1. Tickets are available to the general public starting Thursday, September 8, at $40 per car. Enjoy live music along our…
Music in the Woods Returns!
Join us at the Lloyd Center for the second Music in the Woods event, a free benefit for Lloyd Center Members. Both members and the general public are invited to enjoy a very musical afternoon on the Center’s trails and grounds. Date and details to be announced! Watch our website…
New Bedford’s Piping Plover Pair Fledges One Chick
by Jamie Bogart, Lloyd Center Research Associate As the Lloyd Center wraps up its 36th annual Piping Plover season and the 5th consecutive season working a series of small contracts at local sites, we can report victories and defeats as with every nesting season, and new inroads. A major story…
Clambake XXXVII – Thank you for your support!
Lloyd Center Clambake XXXVII, “37 Years of Celebrating Science and Education!” We thank our Volunteers, Patrons, Sponsors, and Auction Donors! As a result of your hard work and support, scientists, educators and naturalists of the Lloyd Center will continue to move ahead, in innovative and effective ways to challenge our…
Online Auction Sneak Peak – View at the Dartmouth Cultural Center
WE HAVE ART! Artwork will be on display at the Dartmouth Cultural Center located at 404 Elm St in Dartmouth from 11 am – 3 pm on June 30, July 1, July 2, July 7, and July 8. Stop by and take a look!
Lloyd Center Silent Auction Details! July 1 – 8!
The Lloyd Center’s Silent Auction will be online this year commencing on Friday, July 1st, and concluding on Friday, July 8th, at 9pm. Starting July 1st, view our auction at BiddingForGood.com, featuring exciting items from local artists, artisans, businesses, and individuals. Click here to view auction and to bid! Or…
Clambake XXXVII – Meals to Go & Silent Auction – It’s Here!
Order your meal today! The Lloyd Center for the Environment’s Clambake XXXVII – “37 Years of Celebrating Science and Education!” will take place on Friday, July 8, 2022. This Tuesday, July 5th, is the last day to purchase your meal(s). A tradition upon which so much depends, the Clambake helps…
Lloyd Center Welcomes New Board Members
On Thursday, April 28th, the Lloyd Center for the Environment hosted their Annual Meeting at the North Dartmouth Library where three new members were welcomed to the Board of Directors. In addition, the following board members were unanimously voted in as Officers at the Board Meeting that immediately followed the…
Few Pairs, Big Hurdles – Lloyd Center Shorebird Nesting Mid-Season Update
by Jamie Bogart, Lloyd Center Research Associate Recent Lloyd Center plover seasons have featured lower numbers of birds, with only West Island carrying any notable abundance of pairs over the last five seasons. These plover seasons occurring on local municipal or private beaches have been less about numbers, and more…
Dharma Voyage Returns to the Lloyd Center
by Ben Booth of Dharma Voyage Dharma Voyage is looking forward to running another Coastal Rowing program in collaboration with the Lloyd Center this summer. We were very excited about our inaugural season running from the Lloyd Center dock last year, and celebrated many accomplishments. We had a group of…
Clambake XXXVII – Meals to Go & Silent Auction – In Just One Month!
It’s time to mark your calendar and secure your ticket to one of the summer’s most popular events, the Lloyd Center for the Environment’s Clambake XXXVII – “37 Years of Celebrating Science and Education!” – Friday, July 8, 2022. Known as the unofficial “kick-off” of the South Coast’s summer season,…
Summer is Just Around the Corner, Have You Signed Your Children Up for an Exciting Summer Outdoors!
Our Coastal Studies Summer Programs are filling up quickly. Reserve your spot before it’s too late! Animal collection, habitat investigations, and creature observation, are just a few of the activities offered through the 2022 Summer Programs. In its 41st season, the Lloyd Center’s Summer Programs are designed to give motivated…
Lloyd Center’s 36th Annual Shorebird Nesting Season Underway
by Jamie Bogart, Lloyd Center Research Associate The weather pattern this spring has been one of extremes. Many consecutive days of cold north winds made the beach an afterthought, and had some piping plovers waiting out their egg laying. In any season, there are often early nests, then a later…
Timberdoodle Walk Caps March Bird Outings
by Jamie Bogart, Lloyd Center Research Associate Each year on the last Tuesday of March, a time of transition when the woods are still quiet of songbirds but other species may be active and visible, we venture out to open landscape used by the American Woodcock, a shorebird that evolved…