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Shorebird Park Nature Center
Hours: 9-5:00
Tuesday - Friday
9-1:00 -Classroom Programs
Strawbale Nature Center Open to the public -1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Saturdays
9-5
The City of Berkeley’s
Shorebird Park Nature Center is the first municipal strawbale building in
the United States. It has a solar hot water radiant system to provide heating
year-round in the cool marina climate, and a solar photovoltaic electrical system to
power the aquariums, computers, lighting and other equipment. With the
donation of the Skystream 3.7 wind system from Southwest Windpower, the
soon-to-be-built Green Classroom building will be powered by wind from San
Francisco Bay. This wind turbine will be the first municipally-owned wind
turbine in the nation.
The old soon to be replaced portable
building is now just the classroom where we hold workshops trainings and
teach classes. It holds a 100 gallon salt water aquarium which
displays creatures that live in the San Francisco Bay. Our new Straw Bale building is
now the Nature/Visitors Center and Office. Here you'll find a 50
gallon salt tank, displays on Marine mammals and birds and the building
itself is a display on green building. The New Center provides
information to visitors concerning all areas of recreation and marine
conservation and education. We do group tours which include
watching a video on the process of building this building.
Our phone number is 510- 981-6720,and the fax is 510 981-6725
 Mid-week,
the Classroom offers school group presentations, teacher workshops, and
Summer Marine Biology Classes. Schools and/ or teachers who would
like more information should contact the center's program coordinator Patty
Donald. We are also the office for the Adventure
Playground, and we do Special events like the Berkeley
Bay Festival in May and the Shoreline cleanups
year round. We need volunteers for our
Bay Interpretive training program to help with our education programs during the school year.
To get back into the Marina Experience web pages click
here
We are short staffed so cannot man each building full time. If you'd like
a tour, please call so we can accommodate you.
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