News

• Screening of “Trouble the Water” for Flood Safety Awareness Week

  Fri Mar 15th, 2013

  Join us on Thursday, March 21st from 6:00pm-9:00pm for a film screening of "Trouble the Water" - a film about Hurricane Katrina. The screening will be followed by a reception catered by Café Santosha of Trexlertown, PA that incorporates local ingredients. Doors open at 6:00pm and film starts at 6:30pm. Suggested donation of $10.00. Registration is required: 610-253-4432 or gsalazar@nurturenaturecenter.org.

• “Rising Waters” Science on a Sphere Show on YouTube

  Tue Mar 12th, 2013

  Now you can watch our "Rising Waters" Science on a Sphere program on YouTube! This program covers the conditions for precipitation, current and future precipitation trends, and the impact of flooding on people. Nurture Nature Center created "Rising Waters" through an Environmental Literacy Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Visit our center at 518 Northampton Street in Easton, Pennsylvania to watch the full program on our giant animated globe.

• New! Flood Activity Booklet Now Available

  Thu Feb 14th, 2013

  At the request of the Schuylkill County Emergency Management Agency, the Focus on Floods team has developed a new booklet format for the downloadable .pdf flood coloring and activity sheets.  These booklets can be customized with your organization’s logo and message on the front and back cover, and are perfect for distributing to classrooms and schools or other large groups.  Please contact us at info@focusonfloods.org for printing information and more details.

• Gary Szatkowski Presents on Hurricane Sandy

  Thu Dec 27th, 2012

  Gary Szatkowski is the Head Meteorologist at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Mt. Holly, NJ/Philadelphia. Using satellite images of Hurricane Sandy on the Science on a Sphere exhibit, Gary gave a presentation at the Nurture Nature Center on Thursday, December 13th about how the NWS worked to explain this historic storm to the public in advance, and how it should affect how we plan for the future. If you missed this great event, you can still find his presentation here.

• Hurricane Sandy and Coastal Flooding

  Fri Nov 2nd, 2012

  By now, the images of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy are locked into the memories of everyone on the East Coast of the United States - collapsed boardwalks and houses, whole communities without power, and sadly, too much loss of life.  For much of the Delaware River Basin, the event was less about flooding than it was about tremendous wind damage, power outages and disruption of life.  But for coastal communities, the flooding is unparalleled.  A new website, www.Region2Coastal.com, provides excellent resources read more

• Nurture Nature Center’s first anniversary

  Thu Nov 1st, 2012

  November 1, 2012 marks one year since Nurture Nature Center (the organization that created this Focus on Floods project with National Weather Service) opened its doors to the public.  NNC uses science, art and dialogue programs to help communities address local issues, like flooding.  In the past year, thousands of school visitors, emergency managers, teachers and residents have come to see our Science on a Sphere exhibit that shows awe-inspiring images of earth and space science.  NNC has created a feature program for the SOS called "Rising Waters," read more

• NNC Receives New Grant from NOAA to Study Flood Forecast and Warning Tools

  Mon Sep 3rd, 2012

  (Easton, PA) - Nurture Nature Center, Inc., a non-profit organization in Easton, Pennsylvania, with a focus on flooding issues, has been awarded a two-year $160,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to fund a new social science study about weather decision-making. NNC's project will help National Weather Service (NWS) to understand how people living in the Delaware River Basin understand and use NWS flood forecast and warning tools in understanding their flood risk, and how they could be improved to better motivate flood preparedness and warning response by the public. The project, “Flood Risk and Uncertainty: Assessing the National Weather Service’s Forecast and Warning Tools,” supports NOAA’s new Weather-Ready Nation initiative, designed to help the nation become better equipped to prepare for and respond to weather events. Please click here for the full press release.

• Focus on Floods Receives Excellence in Education Award

  Tue Apr 17th, 2012

  The Water Resources Association of the Delaware River Basin has awarded Nurture Nature Center’s “Focus on Floods” initiative the 2012 Dr. Ruth Patrick Excellence in Education Award, in recognition of its flood education programs.  NNC received the most recent award from the Water Resources Association on April 18, 2012, at The Down Town Club in Philadelphia.  The WRA is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy and public information organization whose stated mission is to promote sound water resources management within the Delaware River Basin. The WRA represents water users and those dependent or interested in the Basin’s water resources. Nurture Nature Center, based in Easton, Pennsylvania, helps communities address local environmental risks through science, art and dialogue programming.  read more

• “Rising Waters” Open to the Public

  Sat Mar 17th, 2012

  Nurture Nature Center has created a new Science on a Sphere program, "Rising Waters," about global climate and flooding.  The hour-long program focuses on conditions for precipitation, current and future trends in flooding with a changing climate, and the impacts of global flooding on people.  NNC, with a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, worked with visualization experts from Lehigh University, and with data from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, created a new SOS visualization depicting major global flood events read more

• Grand Opening of the Nurture Nature Center

  Wed Nov 2nd, 2011

  On November 1, 2011, the Nurture Nature Center welcomed nearly 300 guests at its Grand Opening celebration - an evening of science, art and dialogue.  NNC has been working for the past several years to help the public better understand the science of flooding, and how to be prepared.  Now, with the opening of the Nurture Nature Center's historic facility at 518 Northampton Street in Easton, PA, visitors can enjoy a variety of science and art programming on topics of local environmental risks and community interest.   Visit www.nurturenaturecenter.org for hours and program information.