An annual conference at the intersection of science, policy, advocacy, community, and nature.

You will come back, you DID come back!

For more than 45 years the Natural History Conference, held at the Oceanic Hotel on Star Island, has given adults and families a perfect vacation, with daily presentations on topics as diverse as ornithology, animal migration, wildflowers, geology, botany, entomology, archaeology, and oceanography.

Look Back 13.2 Billion Years in this Deep Field View from the Hubble Telescope

In astronomy, a deep field is a compiled image of a portion of space using very long time exposures to look at distant faint objects. The aim of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field view (HXDF) was to study galaxy evolution and active galactic nucleus within one billion years of the Big Bang. The HXDF focused…

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Star Island is more than a place, more than my hundreds of memories, more than the friendships I have made. Star Island is, in a sense, a feeling. I feel the sun on my face during a nap on the front lawn. I feel the sense of calm that enveloped me as I looked out at the ocean and listened to the fog horn as I drifted off to sleep.

Madeline Sedovic

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Natural History Week on Star Island

An annual conference at the intersection of science, policy, advocacy, community, and nature.

You will come back, you DID come back!

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Look Back 13.2 Billion Years in this Deep Field View from the Hubble Telescope

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