Corona del Mar High School seniors Ariana & Kelsey restored habitat at the ENC for their Senior Projects…Kelsey is monitoring the habitat to see what is there so hopefully after the restoration she will find that the habitat has improved.Planting riparian species in her project location. Ariana is doing a line transect – determining what…

Watch the video of this experiment HERE.Watch another Mad Science experiment HERE!

Playing dress up. Using our imaginations. Mark Hay teaching the Native Skills Campers how to sharpen and harden their arrows. Fire hardening the arrows. Sharpening the arrows. The front page image from the Daily Pilot’s article about Tom Sawyer Adventure Camp, on 12-28-09. “Carving” toys out of clay. Making and painting a “fence” – just…

Holidays Gone Raw, taught by Raw Food Chef Alysha Maiorelli, focused on making simple and amazingly delicious recipes using vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and sprouted grains. Everyone enjoyed the yummy food! § Tagliatelle, an Italian pasta, with a light sage and basil “cream” sauce over wilted spinach and topped with marinated mushrooms, “sausage”, and pine…

Take a look at the expression on the little blonde girl with her hand raised – she just won the children’s auction!

Our new oak tree – delivery donated by Rogers Gardens.The hole.Lowering her in!Student volunteers re-fill the hole.

The ENC had a visit from a Great Horned Owl today! Look at those TALONS! A sycamore tree is a good place to sit. WHOOOO is there?

Nick & Sama leaving their handprints on the ENC’s new tapestry.Kathy, Valerie & Lauren serving up mud, water, plants, worms and plankton for their “Edible Wetlands” on Naturama Day.having an orca painted on his face.Bob telling the campers about deep sea fishes. Making Jellies!Completed Jellies!Decorating our bags donated by Mother’s Market!Eating our Edible Wetlands! YUM.Sea…

Campers flocked to the field to cheer on their Junior Naturalists in an Ultimate Frisbee competition!Every time I take a picture of Will he’s 2 feet in the air! Boys won, but both teams did great. Stay tuned for next Summer for the re-match. I will be sure to recruit more Frisbee players as JNs…

Green & Blue learned about the rain forest and created rain sticks. Red & Purple played a game to learn about biomagnification. Some of the students were worms, and they ate “plankton.” Some of the students were fish and ate worms, and one of the students was an osprey and ate the fish. Once the…

Our Ocean Institute Naturalist helps us measure the juvenile Gray Whale’s length.Baleen.Using combs to simulate baleen.Anther Ocean Institute Naturalist shows us some marine mammal bones. Here she is holding a dolphin skull.Searching for intertidal animals in the harbor rocks.Listening to a story about the sea.This Naturalist showed us the length of a squid using the…