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The Think Tank: Dory’s Weekly Blog for NMLC
I realized on my last blog that I did not really talk too much about the daily duties of an intern. Therefore, this blog will just be a broad recap on some of the recent goings-on at NMLC. Because some very significant donors came this past Thursday to take a look at the animal hospital, [...]
1,000 Bulbs on Main Street
Last fall, as the hospital exterior was nearing completion, volunteers were busily working to create a beautiful spring. Spearheaded by Trustee Lauren Freed, volunteers landscaped the flower bed in front of NMLC’s hospital and planted 1,000 flower bulbs along Main Street. Planting bulbs is an act of faith. You select the bulbs, prepare the ground, [...]
Thank You, Volunteers! – Our Founders
In honor of National Volunteer Week, we’d like to take a moment to thank, honor, and remember our original volunteers – our founders. The National Marine Life Center was founded in 1995 by a group of Cape Codders concerned about the significant number of stranded animals in and around Cape Cod, and the absence of [...]
Sealing up the Hospital
The final panels in the west wall of our Marine Animal Hospital were placed yesterday April 7, 2010. Workers from H & S Construction put the last few bolts in around 1:30pm yesterday. The crew still needs to come back and finish up a couple of things in side the hospital. Please enjoy the photos [...]
The Last Wall
If you’ve driven by our new marine animal hospital in the last several months, you may have noticed the exterior isn’t quite finished. We’d left an opening in the side so that heavy equipment could get in and out. Now that we’ve installed the sprinklers and placed the last turtle tank, we no longer need [...]
Filming at the National Marine Life Center!
The National Marine Life Center was a film set today as DGA Productions from Watertown, MA filmed a promotional video for us. Interesting lighting transformed ordinary spaces into brilliant backdrops for interviews of NMLC volunteers and staff. Thank you to Jan Maliszewski, Michael Andrus, and Aaron Frutman for your expert videography and for making the [...]
Chemistry, Art, & Two Guys from Wisconsin
In researching various floor coatings, we considered a variety of products. We looked at the “do it yourself” versions of garage floor coatings, as well as several products applied by contractors. One of our biggest challenges was the need to coat the floor in February in Massachusetts. Cape Cod isn’t the coldest place on earth [...]
Sealing the floor
One of the critical aspects of a marine animal hospital is providing an easily cleaned, sanitary environment. To that end, as we proceed with finishing the sea turtle ward, it was necessary to seal the concrete floor. Although concrete seems to be a durable, easily washed surface, without a protectant it will quickly chip and [...]
Turtles and now dolphins highlight the need for the National Marine Life Center
Over the past several weeks, Cape Cod has been inundated by stranded, cold-stunned sea turtles in what is being described as one of the largest years to date. Now, the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Marine Mammal Rescue and Research group reports that dolphin strandings are also on the rise. In the past week they’ve [...]
Record Number of Sea Turtle Strandings
According to the Cape Cod Times, a record number of sea turtles stranded yesterday. The National Marine Life Center would like to be able to help the MassAudubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (authorized beach respondants) and the New England Aquarium (authorized intensive care unit) by opening our new sea turtle ward to these severely debilitated [...]
Join us for Holiday Splash!
Join us next Saturday, December 12, 12-2 pm, for our Holiday Splash open house! Make a marine animal ornament to decorate your tree. Enjoy arts and crafts and and games and refreshments. Tour our new marine animal hospital! Suggested donation: $5/person, members FREE. Become a member on Holiday Splash and get a free gift with [...]
We need YOU to help Open Our Doors!
Exactly two years ago, the National Marine Life Center had a crisis situation. The roof over our rehabilitation facility began to collapse and we had to move out of the building. We put in a massive effort to raise the $3.1 million needed to remove the original building and replace it with a new hospital [...]
Giving Thanks
On this Thanksgiving we would like to thank and recognize everyone who has supported the National Marine Life Center over the past year. Through gifts of money, goods, services, and time, YOU make is possible to save marine wildlife, advance science, and inspire conservation through education. YOU make it possible to build our new marine [...]
Vote for NMLC on Facebook and help win $$ to save sea animals!
Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities and is calling on Facebook users to pick which ones. YOU can help save marine animals, advance scientific discovery, and inspire conservation through environmental education – just vote for the National Marine Life Center! Then, ask all your friends to do the same! Here’s the link: [...]
Roll-up Door
The “working door” of our new hospital was installed today – a roll-up door at the rear of the building through which dolphins, porpoises, and pilot whales will eventually be admitted. Installed by Overhead Door Garage Headquarters, the roll-up steel door is 12 feet tall by 12 feet wide. Eventually, a bridge crane will be [...]
Turtle Ward Walls
This week the crew from Target Construction has been busy erecting walls around NMLC’s new sea turtle ward. The walls are made of a moisture and mold resistant drywall affixed to metal studs. A layer of “FRP” (fiberglass reinforced panels) is then glued to the drywall in order to provide a durable, washable surface. Washable [...]
It Takes a Village
No sooner had we offloaded the 10,000-pound generator when another flatbed truck came rumbling into our lot. This one had three brand new fiberglass tanks atop it! Trucked in from Waterlife Design Group in Florida, who gave the tanks to us at a heavily discounted rate, the 10-foot diameter, 4-foot deep tanks will serve as [...]
Lessons from the Ancients
Today, we received another wonderful donation from the Marine Biological Laboratory – a 390 KVA standby generator! A bright red-orange in color and complete with transfer switch and necessary hardware, the generator will produce more than enough electricity to power the pumps and life support systems in NMLC’s new hospital. We only had one minor [...]
Extech Doors
The final components of our Extech facade were the doors. Specially designed for NMLC, each door is twelve feet high, six feet wide, and 600 pounds in weight. Also made of translucent Extech material, the doors are secured in a heavy metal frame and swing outward in “carriage door” style. Heavy bolts secure the doors [...]
Extech Installation – Day 5
The last nine Extech panels were installed today, and the front facade is nearly complete! Work continued with adding a frame around the edges to help hold the panels in place. All that’s left are the doors, which were delivered at the end of the day. Inside, you can see how much light the panels [...]
