Zusammenfassung der Ressource
NPP- COnceptual design
- visitor feeling
- curious
- dioriented
- excited
- memories of previous visits
- environment
- pavement parking lot
- other visitores
- view of nature beyond pavement
- gardens
- trails
- abbe museum
- picnic lawn
- Nautre Center transition zone
from civilizaiton to nature and
park
- Motto
- Natural Transformation
- land of history and change
- Acadia: Our ever changing home
- Diverse from sea to summit
- Discovery and Integrigty
of Acadia National Park
- Entrance: Enter into Acadia
National Park
- orient
- prepare/reveal possible experience
- make aware of science
and nature currently
occuring in park when
visit place displayed first
hand
- MOuntains
- glacial valley- glacial
display- historic
shaping and what to looks for
- bubbles
and
jordan
pond
- story of falcon
- volcanic
history- rock
id and story
- erosion to beachs
- important plant life to be
careful of- avoid the
shrub game
- yellow warbler
- ocean drive
- Acadia Achipeligp
- seabird
research
migration
and
breeding
patterns
- story of
researchers-
students and
researchers
- change in vegetation and
coastlines
- sea gull calls
- coastline distubance
- storm surges
- photographic record of geological impact of major coastal storms
- thunderhole
- beaches
- shaped by
wave action
and disturbance
- different beaches and related rocks
- ocean acidity
- interactive shells
- saecave
- walk in sea cave
- water table tidal pool
- sea level rise simulation
- sounds
- change in
Gulf of
Maine
currents
and
chemistry
- bird calls
- old fields agriculture developed areas
- relate visitor to
home and
changes occuring
- story of a developed area
in park
- local warming and
sea effects
- microcosom of
urban heat
island effect
- walk through forest
- tree id
- change in leaf out time simulation
- birds
- deer/coyote research
- match plant with pollinator
- pine forests
- estuary
- biog
- freshwater
- freeze time
- tree id
- change in water chemistry b/c boreal to decisuous
- salt water intrusion
- cranberry picking
- amphibian vernal pool
- transition zone between
b/w fresh water and
ocean: subject to tides
and rivers
- bird sights
- critter match
- Exit: Explore the Park
- use knowledege learned to
observe areas first hand
- scavenger hunts
- drawings or pictures
- bird sighting
- provide some way for visitor to
experience park and then come
back to compare results with
current studies
- ACADIA NOW
- walk toward direction
posts
- draw people into nature center
- sign
- path
- light inside
- walk directly toward gardens or trails
- Walk directly to Nature Center