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The Back Bay Science Center (BBSC) - a 13,000
square foot state-of-the-art facility built through a partnership of
the California Department of Fish and Game, the City of Newport
Beach, the Orange County Health Care Agency, and the University of
California Irvine - is uniquely situated adjacent to Upper Newport
Bay, the largest remaining natural estuary in southern California,
with waterfront access to this important Ecological Reserve.
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The
mission of the BBSC is to provide a hands-on facility where students
and the public can study and enjoy the estuarine ecology of Newport
Bay and the marine ecology of the ocean; and to promote natural
resource conservation and stewardship throughout the watershed. The
facility includes the Health Care Agency water quality lab
responsible for bacterial analysis of water samples collected at the
local beaches, and a teaching lab equipped for research-based
science education for Grades 7 through college. Here junior- and
high-school students will be able to work side-by-side with some of
the region's top scientists.
The facility, which is on Shellmaker Island, is normally only
open to registered participants in published school and other
programs and attendees at special events such as Estuary Awareness
Day. Those interested in learning more about the Bay are encouraged
to visit the OC Parks Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive
Center on the north side of the Bay.
For latest BBSC program and other information visit backbaysciencecenter.org.
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