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Do you love science, nature, and working with students of all ages? Our centers at Glastonbury, Fairfield, and Milford are seeking part-time teacher-naturalists for our award-winning Science in Nature education program, on weekdays and weekends, for school and family education programs. Experience is a must! If you have experience working with students in an outdoor […]
Read more...November 9, 2016 – Eighteen hundred elementary school students from Hartford and Windham counties will participate in Connecticut Audubon Society’s award-winning Science in Nature outdoor education program in spring 2017 thanks to a generous $38,000 grant from the SBM Charitable Foundation of Manchester. The students will travel to Connecticut Audubon’s centers in Glastonbury and Pomfret […]
Read more...January 11, 2016 — Our most recent EcoTravel trip to Cuba resulted not just in another terrific visit for our travelers but also something for local birders — a rolling suitcase stocked with binoculars and field guides to be used at one of Cuba’s national parks. Andy Griswold, director of EcoTravel, has been working for […]
Read more...November 9, 2016 – The Connecticut Audubon Society has called on state officials to reject a proposal for a new power plant in Killingly, near the organization’s Center at Pomfret and 700-acre Bafflin Sanctuary. In a letter to the Connecticut Siting Council, the organization said it is concerned that noise from the plant would affect […]
Read more...December 8, 2015 — The Connecticut Audubon Society today released its Connecticut State of the Birds 2015 report, “Protecting and Connecting Large Landscapes,” and called for an increased emphasis on habitat connectivity and land preservation to improve the chances of survival for many of the state’s fish, bird, reptile, and mammal species. At a news […]
Read more...Based on our Connecticut State of the Birds 2015 report, the Hartford Courant – the biggest and most influential paper in the state – published an editorial today calling for more state funding for land preservation, to fight climate change in general and to protect birds in particular.
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Read more...Paris Climate Talks: The Local Angle December 1, 2015 – With negotiators gathering in Paris to work on agreements to lower carbon emissions, the Connecticut Audubon Society warns that climate change is already here and having a dramatic effect on the state’s wildlife, and predicts significant drops in vulnerable nesting birds as well as the […]
Read more...November 24, 2015 – The Connecticut Audubon Society along with with Massachusetts Audubon and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island have been awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to collaborate on an education initiative, called Building Climate Action Communities, designed to make climate change science a routine part of outdoor nature programs. Climate change […]
Read more...October 2015 – One of the region’s more elusive mammals, the New England cottontail is alive and apparently well at our Roy and Margot Larsen Wildlife Sanctuary in Fairfield, we learned recently. That’s good news because more than 80 percent of the region’s New England cottontails have vanished in recent decades and the remaining population […]
Read more...The Connecticut Audubon Society is pleased to welcome Cathy Hagadorn as the new director of the Coastal Center at Milford Point. A longtime education manager at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk and an expert in the ecology of Long Island Sound, Cathy will oversee all of the programs, events and activities at the Coastal Center, […]
Read more...August 24, 2015 – Michelle Eckman, Connecticut Audubon Society’s director of education, was among 150 U.S. educators and students at the White House last week to participate in a Back-to-School Climate Education summit organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The event was live-streamed and viewed by over 800 people […]
Read more...July 13, 2015 — Osprey Nation, the Connecticut Audubon Society’s citizen science program, has grown significantly in its second year, with more volunteer stewards documenting, mapping and monitoring considerably more nests than last year. Statewide, 134 Connecticut residents are volunteering this nesting season to collect bi-weekly and monthly data on the state’s rapidly increasing Osprey […]
Read more...June 24, 2015 – The Connecticut Audubon Society has a new logo and a new look, and we are pleased and proud to be able to share it today with our members and supporters. We unveiled the new logo this morning at a lively event with our summer camp kids in Fairfield (read the news […]
Read more...May 5, 2015 – The Connecticut Audubon Society is pleased to announce the formation of a new regional board focused on the lower Connecticut River valley. The new regional board will work in conjunction with Connecticut Audubon Society staff and state Board of Directors to provide direction and support to the organization’s conservation and education […]
Read more...March 10, 2015 In 2014 Connecticut Audubon Society launched Osprey Nation[i], a statewide program aimed to monitor and help enhance the osprey population in the state. In a two pronged approach, the Connecticut Audubon Society has sought to support and facilitate scientific research on the ospreys, particularly the large colony at the mouth […]
Read more...January 26, 2015 – Before last winter, the common wisdom was that the Snowy Owls that occasionally left their Arctic breeding grounds to winter further south did so because they were desperate for food and arrived in our area exhausted and starving. But according to Don Crockett, who develops the interactive Snowy Owl maps for […]
Read more...From 1959 until his death in 1980, Edwin Way Teale, who won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1966, observed the natural world from his home in Hampton, writing down what he saw and heard and turning his observations into two books, including A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm. Teale’s land and former home is […]
Read more...Connecticut Audubon Society has been awarded an $34,440 3M Eco Grant to identify natural habitats near Meriden elementary schools where students can participate in Connecticut Audubon’s award-winning Science in Nature education program. The grant is the second 3M Eco Grant that Connecticut Audubon Society has been awarded in three years. The first was used to […]
Read more...The Summer Camp Director oversees the summer camp programs for ages 3-12. The director will train, supervise and evaluate teaching staff, volunteers, and teach occasionally. This position includes administrative duties related to summer camp, including maintaining camp license, staff professionalism, high quality of teaching and fostering a fun learning environment. Full time seasonal position; the […]
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