Please join us for the UW Tacoma Environmental Seminar this week!!! Seminars are open to the public, and feel free to bring your lunch! Panel Topic: "Creating Effective Formal and Informal Environmental Education" Monday, March 12, 12:30-1:25pm UW Tacoma, Science Building, Room SCI 309 (directions http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/campus-map/campus-map) Panelists: Brianna Charbonnel, Education Program Specialist, Metro Parks Tacoma Breanna Trygg, Program Director, Pacific Education Institute Lia Wetzstein, Instructional Supervisor, UWT Brianna Charbonnel has been developing and leading programs at the Tacoma Nature Center since 2005 and joined the team full time in 2010. With a strong background in community outreach and informal education, and a love of the outdoors, Brianna provides quality interpretive and education programs for diverse populations throughout the park district. She also collaborates with many other agencies and non-profits to effectively leverage environmental education opportunities all over the county. Lia Wetzstein is a combination natural scientist and learning scientist. She has been teaching and working within the natural and environmental sciences in various capacities for 20 years. She recently completed her Ph.D. in learning sciences driven by her desire to improve environmental education opportunities and educational equity. Her dissertation work was a study of how prior experiences, cultures and lived realities affect the interaction of underrepresented populations with the natural world in environmental education experiences. Breanna Trygg has worked in the environmental education field for both government and nonprofit organizations, providing training to hundreds of professionals in Washington State and nationally. She is currently a graduate student studying systems and design thinking, group dynamics, and organizational and systems change. Breanna has presented on GreenSTEM: Engaging Students in Protecting Puget Sound, and on Social Science Inquiry through Landscape Investigation. Cheers, Jim James E. Gawel, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering Environmental Science and Studies Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St Campus Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402 Phone: 253-692-5815 E-mail: jimgawel@uw.edu

My apologies, should be MAY 12! Living in the past! Cheers, Jim James E. Gawel, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering Environmental Science and Studies Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St Campus Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402 Phone: 253-692-5815 E-mail: jimgawel@uw.edu On Wed, 7 May 2014, Jim Gawel wrote: > Please join us for the UW Tacoma Environmental Seminar this week!!! > Seminars are open to the public, and feel free to bring your lunch! > > Panel Topic: "Creating Effective Formal and Informal Environmental > Education" > > Monday, March 12, 12:30-1:25pm > UW Tacoma, Science Building, Room SCI 309 > (directions http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/campus-map/campus-map) > Panelists: > Brianna Charbonnel, Education Program Specialist, Metro Parks Tacoma > Breanna Trygg, Program Director, Pacific Education Institute > Lia Wetzstein, Instructional Supervisor, UWT > > Brianna Charbonnel has been developing and leading programs at the Tacoma > Nature Center since 2005 and joined the team full time in 2010. With a > strong background in community outreach and informal education, and a > love of the outdoors, Brianna provides quality interpretive and education > programs for diverse populations throughout the park district. She also > collaborates with many other agencies and non-profits to effectively > leverage environmental education opportunities all over the county. > > Lia Wetzstein is a combination natural scientist and learning scientist. > She has been teaching and working within the natural and environmental > sciences in various capacities for 20 years. She recently completed her > Ph.D. in learning sciences driven by her desire to improve environmental > education opportunities and educational equity. Her dissertation work was > a study of how prior experiences, cultures and lived realities affect the > interaction of underrepresented populations with the natural world in > environmental education experiences. > > Breanna Trygg has worked in the environmental education field for both > government and nonprofit organizations, providing training to hundreds of > professionals in Washington State and nationally. She is currently a > graduate student studying systems and design thinking, group dynamics, > and organizational and systems change. Breanna has presented on > GreenSTEM: Engaging Students in Protecting Puget Sound, and on Social > Science Inquiry through Landscape Investigation. > > Cheers, > Jim > > James E. Gawel, Ph.D. > Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering > Environmental Science and Studies > Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program > University of Washington Tacoma > 1900 Commerce St > Campus Box 358436 > Tacoma, WA 98402 > Phone: 253-692-5815 > E-mail: jimgawel@uw.edu >