A team of high school students focus on environmental sciences while participating in a regional competition-style academic event held at the Fernald Preserve.
The staff at the Fernald Preserve is available to address schools, scouts, senior groups, and other organized groups on a variety of topics relating to the site’s history, mission, groundwater remedy, ecological restoration, environmental sciences, wildlife, ecology, and green building features. Nature and history programs can be customized to meet your group’s specific objectives.
To schedule a program or for more information, please email us at Fernald@lm.doe.gov or call us at 513-648-3330.
To view the Meeting Space and Program Request Policy, Fernald Preserve, Ohio, Site click here.
The Fernald Preserve, Ohio, Site offers a variety of public programs, privately scheduled programs/speakers, and meeting spaces, in addition to regular visitors center hours, trails, and wildlife viewing areas. Meeting spaces and site-related nature, environmental science, and history programs are available year round.
July Events
MAPS Bird Banding
May-August
Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship, or MAPS, is a long running study of breeding birds and their dispersal pattern across the country! Join our permitted bird bander as we track our local bird population at Fernald. Because of the weather dependent nature of this program, dates and times will be decided on a week-by-week basis — sign up to be notified when this program will be taking place! E-mail Fernald@lm.doe.gov to be placed on our notification list for dates.Moths and Mars!
Friday, July 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight
This month, we’re combining two of our nighttime experiences! Join Fernald staff and the Cincinnati Astronomical Society for a presentation on Mars. Afterwards, hang around the building with volunteers and their telescopes (so long as the skies are clear) or join Fernald staff on a ~1-2 mile hike around the Shingle Oak trail to look for moths!Butterflies of Fernald
Friday, July 17, 7-8:30 p.m.
Monarchs, Satyrs, and Swallowtails oh my! Did you know Ohio has documented over 130 species of butterflies? Attend a presentation on just some of the butterflies to be found around the preserve. Afterwards, take a short ~1-mile hike around Shingle Oak Trail with butterfly nets to see what species we can find!Fish of Fernald!
Saturday, July 18, 9 a.m.-noon
Attend a short presentation about the fish swimming in Paddys Run Creek, located on the western side of Fernald. Afterwards, take a 1-mile hike to watch our site ecologist survey the creek! This hike will cover unpaved and uneven trails, so sturdy shoes are a must for participants. (Preregistration required!)Adult Science Night: World of Water
Friday, July 24, 6-7:30 p.m.
Play with water from the comfort of our shelter and meeting room with fun experiments and activities! Try your hand at our H2O-lympics, take an incredible journey through the water cycle, and conduct a tabletop experiment illustrating groundwater sampling.Boardwalk Night Hike
Friday, July 31, 9-11p.m.
Join us on a night hike to the boardwalk and back under the stars as we listen for owls and whatever other nighttime critters we might cross paths with. This hike will cover approximately 2 miles on unpaved but relatively even trails, so sturdy shoes are a must.The Community Meeting Room, Resource Room, and outdoor Program Shelter were designed to be used by the public when they are not in use by Fernald Preserve staff. These facilities are available free of charge for noncommercial use by organized groups.
Seating capacity for the Community Meeting Room is 120 for theater seating and 80 for conference seating.
Seating capacity at standard tables in the outdoor Program Shelter is 58.
The seating capacity in the Resource Room is 8 (at a conference table).
The application review process to reserve these facilities could take up to two weeks.
To make a room reservation or for more information, please email us at Fernald@lm.doe.gov or call us at 513-648-3330.
To view the Meeting Space and Program Request Policy, Fernald Preserve, Ohio, Site click here.