Newport Back Bay Science Center
The Newport Back Bay Science Center is located in Newport Beach, CA on Shellmaker Island. This center’s main focus is to supply information on estuarine and marine biology through activities and lectures in a year round program. This science center is connected to the watershed, which is home to around 175 thousand people in urban cities. The Newport Back Bay Science Center’s goal is to educate the citizens on how they can aid in keeping the Back Bay area clean, and how they affect the watershed. They strive to educate this generation and generations to come so as to keep the movement for a clean environment on an incline.
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