Learn about the Bay and Sea
The Audubon Environmental Education Center is a unique natural history museum and aquarium that puts fun and excitement into experiencing nature. Interactive environmental exhibits allow you to look inside a thirty-three-foot life-size model of a Right Whale, observe marine life in a tide-pool tank, explore a cornfield at night, and view other fascinating nature exhibits. Walking trails lead from the Center across the twenty-eight-acre McIntosh Wildlife Refuge along a quarter-mile boardwalk, which crosses the East Bay Bike path to Narragansett Bay.
1401 Hope St. (Rte. 114)Bristol, Rhode Island 02809
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Phone: 401-245-7500
Email: EEC@asri.org
Web Site: http://www.asrieec.org
A state-of-the-art education center, built on a former brownfields site. The grounds include demonstrations of stormwater management, coastal buffer planting and salt marsh restoration.It features two classrooms, lab space, a large meeting room, Save The Bay’s administrative offices and an adjacent boathouse with a fixed pier and dock.
100 Save the Bay Dr.Providence, Rhode Island 02905
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Phone: 401-272-3540
Discover the fascinating world of Narrangansett Bay. Hold living sea stars, sea urchins, snails, clams, crabs and other coastal creatures in our tidepool touch tank. See them even more closely at our microscope station, where an eduator might point out a blue mussels foot, tiny brine shrimp swiming or barnacles feeding. View other residents of the Bay, including graceful moon jellies, baby lobsters, "talkative" fiddler crabs and more. Dig for fossil shark teeth and examine lobster traps. Take home an arts project.
Easton's BeachNewport, Rhode Island 02840
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Phone: 401-849-8430
Web Site: http://www.savebay.org
Provides a focal point for the university's diverse marine education, training, and outreach programs. The Coastal Institute Visitor Center features an interactive science exhibit, bookstore and educational offerings for schools, teachers, tour groups, tourists and the general public.
South Ferry Rd.Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882
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Phone: 401-874-6211
Email: omp@gso.uri.edu
Web Site: http://omp.gso.uri.edu