A picture is worth a thousand words. Sandra Biziaux Scherson lives, breathes, eats, and sleeps photography. Nature and wildlife are her favorite subjects, and the world around her is her inspiration. Henri Carier-Bresson, the master of candid photography, once said, “To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting…
Archives for 2016
Children’s Drought Art will raise awareness
California officials have opened the spill gates at Folsom Lake, located in Northern California and let precious water spill into the American River as a precaution against–flooding! A series of El Niño-influenced storms in the month of March have made a significant dent on California’s severe drought. But don’t get too overly excited about watering…
ENC presenting “Drought” Youth Art Exhibit!
California is currently facing one of the most severe droughts on record. According to research California is probably headed into a deeper drought this summer, making it harder to escape in the future. One of the Environmental Nature Center’s core values is to maintain our commitment to the environment and the work necessary to convey…
Campers let their Imaginations Run Wild this Spring
Spring is in the air and the Environmental Nature Center is excited to present Spring Break Camp! As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth, to see the land as an animal does, and to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a…
The Dark Abyss of the Deep Blue Sea
Move aside space exploration, there’s a new frontier for humans to explore and that’s the dark abyss of the deep blue sea. But there is a reason why the deep sea has been largely unexplored. Dive down 650 feet and you will notice that light starts fading rapidly. Dive deeper and the temperature drops…
Teaching with a Butterfly Garden
Butterflies are some of the most beautiful creatures on the planet and can be extremely useful when teaching about nature and science! Join ENC Horticulture manager Hilary Mills and ENC Butterfly Wrangler Leslie Helliwell to learn all about planting a butterfly garden and how to use it to teach science concepts to your students! Creating…
From the Deepest Ocean Depths to the Starry Sky at the ENC!
Spring is nature’s way of saying “lets party!” With March approaching and Spring right around the corner the Environmental Nature Center is excited to kick off the new month and season with some exciting upcoming events. To dive into the month of March, the ENC will be presenting our Adult Speaker Series featuring local resident and Newport…
A Superior Senior Project
A foreign exchange student from the Netherlands recently completed her Senior Project at the Environmental Nature Center where she shadowed our Naturalists as they taught environmental education programs. At the completion of her project, she interviewed our Education and Community Relations Director, Lori Whalen. The student asked Whalen a plethora of questions regarding the ENC…
Full Moon Walk at the ENC
Formed by a fiery planetary explosion roughly 400 billion years ago, the moon has been a beacon of light and comfort since the dawn of humankind. It has been everything from a God to a compass, and it is the only cosmic body human beings have visited. So come on out to the Environmental Nature…
Women in Newport Networking Forum
Everyone has personal goals and ambitions. Whether it be materialistic goals like owning a bigger house or physical goals like losing those stubborn extra pounds of weight that you put on during the holidays, everyone has a particular set of goals that they live by and feel will make their lives better. While personal ambitions…
What do Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have in common?
What do successful tech engineers like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have in common? You might think they are incredibly smart, innovative, creative or even filthy rich, but you might be forgetting one key characteristic. They are all MEN! The STEM fields—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—have always had a woman problem. Men tend…
The ENC has you covered this Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Are you scurrying around, surfing the web endlessly, trying to find that perfect gift for your significant other? Take a deep breath and try to relax because the Environmental Nature Center in Newport Beach has you covered. There is a Native Plant Sale taking place on Saturday, February…