City Nature Challenge: Guided Hike
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesAs part of City Nature Challenge 2019 for the Pittsburgh region, join us at Powdermill Nature Reserve for a hike up Porcupine Ridge Trail! ! Mandi Lyon, Education Program Development […]
R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar: The Rise of Mammals after the End—Cretaceous Mass Extinction
“The Rise of Mammals after the End—Cretaceous Mass Extinction.” Sarah Shelley Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Nature 360: May Nature Lab
School’s (almost) out for summer—but we’re not there yet! Swing into the Nature Lab and get ready for the summer break. We’ll talk nets and notebooks, field guides and forests, […]
Storytime & More
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesNot for me please! I choose to act green Luke loves nature and the outdoors. When he sees plastic stuck in a tree, he knows he needs to do more. […]
Lion King After Dark
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World Migratory Bird Day
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesWorld Migratory Bird Day is Saturday, May 11, and we could not think of a better way to celebrate than by inviting you to Powdermill Avian Research Center! Stop by […]
Super Science Saturday: Reptiles: LIVE!
Discover fascinating facts from reptile experts, examine cool museum specimens, and even meet real reptiles from our living collection as we bid farewell to Reptiles: LIVE! during its final weekend […]
Science and Nature Program and Nature Explorers
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesA Plastic Handbasket Plastics have revolutionized our way of life but also have a devastating effect on our planet. In honor of World Migratory Bird Day’s 2019 theme, “Protect Birds: […]
Nature at Night
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesDocumentary & Discussion: Plastics What happens to plastic that gets tossed out a window? Does it break down? Is it harmful? Many plastic items make their way to the ocean, […]
Anthropocene Artist Talk
CMOA TheaterStill from the short film Leafcutters Artist and photographer Catherine Chalmers will join Curator of Photography Dan Leers and Anthropocene Curator Dr. Nicole Heller to discuss Chalmers’ art practice and […]
Storytime & More
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesCecily Cicada Cecily Cicada has been waiting. She has spent 17 lonely years in the ground beneath a sassafras tree, waiting for her chance to come up and explore the […]
Science and Nature Program
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesCicadapalooza! After 17 years underground, periodical cicada Brood VIII is resurfacing at Powdermill! Come celebrate this spectacular natural phenomenon at Cicadapalooza! Learn all about cicada biology, morphology, songs, behavior, distribution, […]
Nature at Night
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesSalamander Meander From spotted salamanders to red salamanders, and many species in between, Westmoreland County boasts an impressive diversity of salamanders! Come learn about some of the salamanders (and newts) […]
11,000 Baby Turtles and 4 Pallets of Jars: An Update on the Alcohol House
Speaker: Kaylin Martin, Curatorial Assistant of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, our historic and beloved Alcohol House is […]
Super Science Saturday: Jurassic Day 2019
Wander through our world-class Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibition hall, dig for fossils in Bone Hunters' Quarry, and take part in hands-on, dinosaur-themed activities. Meet dinosaur relatives from the museum’s […]
Potterfest All Ages
Storytime & More
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesSam and the Firefly The moon is up and Sam the Owl is ready to play, but when he pops out of his tree everyone else is asleep! What’s an […]
Science and Nature Program
Powdermill Nature Reserve 1795 Route 381, Rector, PA, United StatesMoths, Mayflies, and Molecules: Using DNA to understand the insect-based diets of birds and fish Brandon Hoenig is a biology PhD student at Duquesne University where he uses modern techniques […]
Developing Science and Community through Isotopic Inquiry
Presented by Ryan Mathur Beyond the scientific functions of defining Earth processes and fingerprinting sources of materials, the value of stable and radiogenic isotope analyses extends to the cultivation of […]