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Dr. Marco Hatch: Merging Ocean Science and Community-Driven Environmental Restoration

Washington Nature

By Anya Blaney Ocean scientist and TNC in Washington trustee Marco Hatch creates opportunities for under-resourced students to pursue higher education while revitalizing ancestral clam gardens. His connection to the ocean and marine ecology began in early life.

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NOAA Grant To Chesapeake Bay Foundation Will Boost Environmental Education In Harrisburg Region Intermediate Unit

PA Environment Daily

Harrisburg area teachers and students will engage in hands-on learning around local environmental issues and solutions, and the unique nature of their communities thanks to a grant from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), acquired by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

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Carnegie Museum Of Natural History: We Get Questions - Climate Change, Hope And Action

PA Environment Daily

By Patrick McShea, Educator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History “Tell me what gives you hope?” The student’s question during a high school environmental science class in March left me scrambling to deliver a clear and honest answer. Patrick McShea is an educator at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

For example, the Department of Conservation Biology and Ecology is in the School of Life Sciences. The School will incorporate the existing departments that cover geology, environmental engineering, and energy science and engineering. Notably, other departments like Ecology remain separate.

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Stanford’s Sustainability School: A Good Model?

Legal Planet

I’ll talk about some more mundane considerations next, but the fundamental issue is really whether there’s enough commonality among people like energy economists, conservation biologists, and civil/environmental engineers to make it useful to put them and their students under one roof. Education and Planning.

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Conservation: History and Future

Environmental Science

What is Conservation? We define conservation as a broad approach to preserving what is already there and the due care and attention to protecting it for the future (1). Resource conservation is the active ways in which we seek to limit the use of resources to reduce the strain put on supply. Conservation, Ethics, Philosophy.

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Community Science to the Rescue

Academy of Natural Sciences

On a beautiful sunny day in early summer, a group of community scientists led by Ron Smith — a Drexel University BEES instructor and high school environmental science teacher — was making the most of the beachy breeze on the Delaware Bay. Horsehoe crabs haven’t always needed human intervention and assistance.