Associated People Suzanne Kahn Eder
WELLS, Maine, May 2, 2013 — Suzanne Kahn Eder, education director at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, will spend part of her summer in the Arctic aboard the Lindblad expedition ship National Geographic Explorer after having been selected as a 2013 Lindblad Expeditions National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow.
Eder was in Washington, D.C., last week for a pre-voyage workshop, where she met the other 13 Grosvenor Teacher Fellows, three of the expedition’s on-board naturalists, and the program’s coordinators. “It is a talented, well traveled, and passionate group of people and I feel so fortunate to have been selected for this program,” Eder said. “I keep expecting to wake from a dream.”
Associated People Paige Rutherford
Project Summary
Teachers on the Estuary (TOTE) is a 4-day field and research-based summer workshop designed for middle and high school science teachers. The workshop aims to improve teacher and student understanding of the environment using local examples, and to provide resources and experience to support the incorporation of climate change, ecosystem services, systems thinking, service learning, estuary and watershed topics into classroom teaching. The course is also designed to promote stewardship of watersheds and estuaries. Following the summer workshop, teachers implement a stewardship project with students throughout the school year, using a $200 mini-grant through TOTE. Teachers also commit to attending a half-day fall follow up session to report on their stewardship project progress.
Associated People Susan Bickford
Cold and windy May weather does not deter our participants from learning how to use GPS to create trail maps in Google Earth.
Hello, future volunteer! Would you like to make a difference in your community and inspire future generations to protect nature? Then become a trained volunteer for the Wells Reserve at Laudholm. We need your help to lead school and public programs during the spring, summer, and fall. Volunteers generally lead 3 to 4 programs a season. We will teach you what you need to know! Learn about local wildlife and where the river meets the sea at a national treasure in your “backyard”.
Spring Training Dates
- Tuesday, March 8, 10:00 am
- Wednesday, March 9, 9:00 am
- Tuesday, March 15, 10:00 am
- Monday, March 21, 10:30 am
- Tuesday, March 22, 10:00 am
- Thursday, April 7, 9:00 am
- Tuesday, April 19, 9:30 am
- Thursday, April 21, 11:00 am
Please visit our website calendar for full descriptions of the various trainings. Contact Paige Rutherford at 646-1555 x110 or jpaiger@wellsnerr.org for more information on volunteering.
Associated People Suzanne Kahn Eder Paige Rutherford
The thirteen educators who are participating in the Teachers on the Estuary program arrived this afternoon. In between introductions and their first workshops, they came to the farmhouse porch for a brief social.
The Marine Invader Monitoring and Information Collaborative (MIMIC) is a network of trained volunteers, scientists, and state and federal workers who monitor marine invasive species along the Gulf of Maine. The collaborative provides an opportunity for the general public to actively participate in an invasive species early detection network, identify new invaders before they spread out of control, and help improve our understanding of the behavior of established invaders. More than 100 volunteers are monitoring 38 sites in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.
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