New England Science Center Collaborative (NESCC)

NESCC Mission, Goals and History

The New England Science Center was founded in New Hampshire in 1999, with the goal of linking climate science researchers and institutions to the environmental education community, in order to drive awareness and action around the problem of climate change. The NESCC created professional development opportunities (including the popular "Meet the Scientists" program), teaching tools (its flagship: the Climate Change Backpack®) and networking capacity for science educators. It also began working with science centers to help them become models and learning laboratories for greenhouse gas reductions, through the development of the "Greening the Science Centers" program.

Since 1999, the New England Science Center Collaborative has grown from its original fourteen NH members to over 30 member organizations throughout New England. The NESCC was also the model upon which its Connecticut counterpart, the Connecticut Science Center Collaborative, was based. In 2006 NESCC joined with Clean Air-Cool Planet, a founding member of it and the CT Collaborative, to reside under the umbrella of the Northeast Science Center Collaborative.

NESCC Steering Committee

John Anderson - Education Director, New England Aquarium
Will Abbott - Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Peter Arnold - Renewable Energy Coordinator, Chewonki Foundation
Debbie Avalone-King - Environmental Specialist, Maine DEP Bureau of Air Quality
David Bartlett, Ph.D. - Associate Director, University of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
Jeanne Gerulskis - Director, Christa MacAuliffe Planetarium
Steve Hamburg, Ph.D. - Brown University
Pat Harcout - Community Educator, Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Mary Lou Krambeer -
Iain MacLeod - Executive Director, Squam Lake Natural Science Center
Adam Markham - Executive Director, Clean Air-Cool Planet
Brian Rogan – Program Manager, Earth-Space Education, Museum of Science
Richard Polonsky - Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University

NESCC Members

Science Centers     * indicates members on Advisory Committee
Audubon Society of New Hampshire Concord, NH *	Boston Children's Museum Boston, MA
Christa McAuliffe Planetarium Concord, NH *	EcoTarium Worcester, MA
ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont<	Museum of Science Boston, MA *
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium St. Johnsbury, VT	Seacoast Science Center Rye, NH
New England Aquarium Boston, MA *(and the Newport Exploration Center, Newport, RI)	Vermont Institute of Natural Science Quechee, VT
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center Holderness, NH *	Margret and H.A. Rey Center Waterville Valley, NH
Environmental Education Organizations
Appalachian Mountain Club Pinkham Notch, NH	Chewonki Foundation Wiscasset, ME *
Clean Air - Cool Planet Portsmouth, NH	Environmental Defense Boston, MA
Harris Center for Conservation Harrisville, NH	ME Department of Environmental Protection Augusta, ME
NH Department of Environmental Services Concord, NH	RI Department of Environmental Management Providence, RI
Save the Bay Providence, RI	Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests Concord, NH
Tin Mountain Conservation Center Conway, NH	Weir Farm Natural Historic Site (National Park Service) Wilton, CT
White Mountain National Forest Laconia, NH	Wright Center for Innovative Science Education Tufts University, Medford, MA
Research Institutions
Brown University, Center for Environmental Studies Providence, RI *	Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory Hanover, NH
Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	Earthwatch Institute Maynard, MA
Hubbard Brook Foundation Hanover, NH	Mount Washington Observatory North Conway, NH
Plymouth State University Center for the Environment Plymouth, NH	Tufts Climate Initiative Tufts University, Medford, MA
University of New Hampshire, Earth, Ocean, & Space Institute Durham, NH *	Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Waquoit, MA*
Woods Hole Research Center Falmouth, MA

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