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DURHAM — The N.H. Coverts Project is accepting applications from new volunteers interested in taking part in the 2022 N.H. Coverts Project volunteer training program. This year’s training will take
The taxpayers of Concord may not realize it, but they own a lot of mushrooms.There’s ghost bolete in Marjorie Swope Park. Slippery Jacks in Morono Park. Dyer’s polypore in the Emerson Tract. And earthballs – lots of earthballs.Those are some of the...
DURHAM – The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension seeks volunteers to gather nature observations on town-owned lands across New Hampshire during the month of September. Volunteers of all ages
Lab Girls lays the groundwork for female scientists Lab Girls held its first virtual meeting last Thursday with presenter Mirka Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord. Traditionally held once a week over the course of six weeks in local middle schools, the virtual Lab Girls format is held once a month through June and is open to students in grades 5 through 12. Staff photo by Tim Goodwin— Lab Girls held its first virtual meeting last Thursday with presenter Mirka Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Conco...
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 1/12/2021 12:56:21 PM When Mirka Zapletal was growing up, she knew of a few female scientists – Marie Curie and Jane Goodall to be exact. All the rest, she thought, were men. “I just thought scientists were other people than me,” Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, told the latest batch of Lab Girls participants Thursday night over the first-ever Zoom meeting of the program. But then after embarking on her career as an educator, she realized she could be. “I wasn’t a scientist until someone gave me the...