Feeling an elephant snail, holding a decorator crab and dancing like an anemone are just some of the fun activities that Narooma Public School students were able to experience during their recent visit from the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre. Two weeks ago I (Jillian Riethmuller, marine education officer) loaded up the car with a touch tank, dried specimens and…
Read more →Thanks to the Australian Government Caring for our Country Program, we received a Community Action Grant that has enabled us to hold two days of workshops focusing on the beautiful shorebirds in our region. Thanks to our new friends Dan Weller and Grainne Maguire from BirdLife Australia (www.birdlife.org.au) and Robyn Kesby from NSW National…
Read more →This year the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre held a colouring in competition for the Eden Whale Festival. We had a huge number of entries from all over the area and even further afield such as Mallacoota and Canberra. The students were given a killer whale to colour in and the variety of entries was astounding,…
Read more →We were very excited to learn we had received another Mumbulla Foundation Grant, which will enable us to purchase a new MicroEYE microscope and projector. We purchased our first MicroEYE through a Marine Discovery Centres Australia Grant (FRDC) and it has been so popular we decided we needed another. MicroEYE microscopes are user friendly…
Read more →Researchers from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences are currently making good use of our marine laboratory. They are growing tiny zooplankton called foraminifera under different temperature and carbon dioxide levels to see how they will adapt to a changing climate.
Read more →The centre has been bustling again this week with a number of school visits. Wednesday saw 50 students from Bombala Public School tour the Discovery Centre. The students enjoyed a talk about whales, exploring the beachcombing table, making scientific observations with the microscopes and getting up close to some rocky shore creatures in the…
Read more →A new research project is being set up in the lab by a team supervised by Dr Stephen Eggins from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences. It all looks fairly impressive with large tubs of water with overhead lights installed by close of day. The small research team will be staying in Eden…
Read more →Whales seem to be the talk of the town with Humpbacks breaching left right and centre, Orcas visiting Lennards Island and the Eden Whale Festival make a splash in town. On top of all this the local students of the Bega Valley Shire have become Whale Wise through participating in fun hands on workshops in…
Read more →Our new Associate Members gathered for their first meeting last night and their first Agenda item was to elect a Delegate to represent the Associate Member group on the Board of Directors. Two Associate Members were nominated: Libby Hepburn and John Aveyard, with John gaining the majority vote. John will now attend Board Meetings…
Read more →The Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre is now on Youtube. Check out our channel to see videos of demonstrations (including a mentos diet coke whale blow), film of our animals and other things that we get up to at the marine discovery centre. Share with all your friends and family! http://www.youtube.com/user/SCMDC77?feature=mhee
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