Environmental Studies Center 2012 Open House

The Environmental Studies Center is a natural sciences education facility designed to provide unique learning experiences not typically available in the local school.

This Saturday, November 3rd is the Center's annual Open House!  It is a free, family-friendly event.  Click on the Studio10 video link for the interview and a sneak preview of what you can see at the Center.

The Environmental Studies Center features more than 500 acres of rich woodlands, the Center affords teachers, students and the general public an opportunity to experience firsthand the natural environment and the interrelationships governing our living world.

Natural resources include pine and bay forests, swamps, freshwater streams, carnivorous plant bogs, and a twenty-acre lake. Man-made facilities include numerous nature and hiking trails, an outdoor amphitheater, covered pavilions, a weather station and STARLAB Planetarium, live animal exhibits, native plants garden, and multipurpose instruction building.

The building contains an auditorium, library, and classroom/exhibit space containing live reptiles and amphibians, a salt-water aquarium, and numerous preserved specimens commonly encountered throughout southern Alabama.

The ESC staff includes five professionals and three support personnel, four part-time student assistants, and a cadre of volunteers.

The ESC is located at 6101 Girby Road in south Mobile, about 1/2 mile west of Infrimary West (formerly Knollwood Hospital).

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