Volunteer Trish Wheeler Brings Fun Wherever She Goes

Volunteer Trish Wheeler Brings Fun Wherever She Goes

You never know where you might find volunteer Trish Wheeler at Marine Discovery Center. She could be leading kids for summer camp activities or helping as a docent in the Welcome Center or assisting MDC’s Florida Master Naturalist Program instructors with fishing nets...
Archaeologist Presents MDC’s November Lecture

Archaeologist Presents MDC’s November Lecture

Understanding Shell Mound Science will be the focus of Marine Discovery Center’s November Discovery Lecture Series. Registered professional archaeologist Rebecca L. Harris (pictured below) will be the guest presenter on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. in MDC’s Learning...
Cheryl Faber Teams Up With MDC To Link Arts and Science

Cheryl Faber Teams Up With MDC To Link Arts and Science

Cheryl Faber regularly bounces back and forth between Artists’ Workshop of New Smyrna Beach and Marine Discovery Center — nonprofit neighbors that share the building that once housed New Smyrna Beach High School. As the volunteer president of Artists’ Workshop,...
Bats Are Featured in MDC’s October Lecture

Bats Are Featured in MDC’s October Lecture

Native Bats will be the focus of Marine Discovery Center’s October Discovery Lecture Series. Ariel Horner (pictured below), a board member of the Florida Bat Conservancy, will be the guest presenter on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 6 p.m., in MDC’s Learning Lab. If you have...
Special MDC Lecture: Experiencing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Special MDC Lecture: Experiencing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Have you ever wondered what is being done to clean up the large collection of trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? That will be the focus of a special-topic presentation in September for our Discovery Lecture Series. Tenille Maher will present “Journey to the...
From the Water to the Welcome Desk, Jackie Creedon Dives In

From the Water to the Welcome Desk, Jackie Creedon Dives In

You might meet Marine Discovery Center volunteer Jackie Creedon at the Welcome Desk, or learn about the animals in the tanks in the exhibit area when she works there as a docent, or spend time with her as a kayak-tour sweep on MDC’s kayak eco-tours. The Pennsylvania...