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Environmental Education

Selected

Alumni

 

Thesis or Project Title

 

Current Employment

 

 

 

 

 

Evelyn Roether, 2006

 

Development of a Williams Area Trail Guide.

 

Watershed Council, Williams, OR.

 

 

 

 

 

Julie Heinz, 2006

 

Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Environmental Education Program: North Mountain Park, Ashland, OR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah Zierten, 2006

 

Biodiversity in the National Parks of the Klamath Network: The Creation of Educational Material to inform the Public about the Klamath Network Inventory and Monitoring Program.

 

Science Communication Intern, San Francisco Networks, National Park Service

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Musgrove, 2006

 

Test Option

 

Sixth Grade Teacher in Shasta, CA

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Madden, 2006

 

Test Option

 

Leading Hikes for the BLM Table Rocks Environmental Education Program.

 

 

 

 

 

Peder Nelson, 2006

 

Weeds on the Pacific Crest Trail in Southwest Oregon: Predicting Presence and Abundance Using Geographic Information System.

 

Research Assistant in the
Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in
Ecology (LARSE).

 

 

 

 

 

Karin Onkka, 2005

 

The Habitat Puzzle Exhibit for North Mountain Park Nature Center.

 

North Mountain Park, Ashland, OR.

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Karam, 2005

 

History and development of refuge management for Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) and an ecological comparison of three artificial refuges.

 

Research biologist, Native Fish Lab, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

 

 

 

 

 

Carolyn Nesbitt, 2005

 

Fire Ecology and Watersheds: A Bilingual Environmental Education Curriculum for Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

 

Director of the Elementary Environmental
Education Program, Manzano Day School, Albuquerque, NM

 

 

 

 

 

Erin Himmel, 2005

 

Creation of Cultural History Traveling Trunks for the Outreach Program, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

 

 School Programs Coordinator and Environmental Educator at Vermont Institute of Natural Science in Quechee, VT

 

 

 

 

 

Helen Yost, 2005

 

Test option

 

Outreach Coordinator, Lomakatsi Restoration Project, Ashland, OR

 

 

 

 

 

Hui-Hui Wang, 2005

 

Coral Reef Educational Resources for Elementary Students at Steinhart Aquarium, California Academy of Sciences

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jaime Stephens, 2005

 

A Comparison of Bird Abundance and Nesting in Harvest Units, Habitat Islands, and Mature Coniferous Forests in Southwestern Oregon.

 

Research Biologist, Klamath Bird Observatory, Ashland, OR

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Frank, 2005

 

Complex Mutualism in an Oregon White Oak Woodland: Hypogeous Fungi, Mycorrhizas and Small Mammal Mycophagy associated with Quercus Garryana.

 

Lab Technician, NSF Mycorrhizal Inocculum Research Grant, SOU

 

 

 

 

 

John Malloy, 2005

 

Development of the Crest to Coast Handbook: A Curriculum and Resource Guide for the Crest to Coast Course

 

Instructor Guide at San Juan Outdoor School, Ophir, CO

 

 

 

 

 

Lindsey Lyons, 2005

 

Temporal and Spatial Variation in Larval Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) Abundance and Associated Microhabitat Variables in Devils Hole, Nevada

 

Watershed Resource Coordinator, OSU Extension, Klamath County, OR

 

 

 

 

 

Melissa Pitkin, 2005

 

Two Birds in One Net: Science and Education at Mist Netting Stations

 

Education Director, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Stinson Beach, CA

 

 

 

 

 

Rob Lang, 2005

 

Ecological Sensibility: Perception, Meaning and Value in Environmental Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Sabol, 2005

 

Effects of western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) removal on avian species composition in shrub-steppe habitat in south-central Oregon.

 

Staff ecologist, Tierra Data Inc., CA

Henry Wittridge, 2004

 

Mycorrhizal fungi associated with the clustered lady’s slipper orchid (Cypripedium fasciculatu)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kristi Mergenthaler, 2003

 

A flora of three mountains and the creation of a natural history guide: Eastern Siskiyou Crest.

 

Contract botany and outdoor education

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Sweeney, 2003

 

Environmental and habitat variables affecting five rare plant taxa in serpentine fens of the Klamath Mountains

 

Carpenter, Dad!

 

 

 

 

 

Sara Trakselis

 

Creation of a Field Guide for Canyonlands Field Institute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liz Crosson, 2002

 

Promoting environmentally sustainable wood products:
enabling conscious consumerism in the Rogue Valley

 

Student: Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Gahl Cole, 2001

 

Writing in the Dirt, A Nature Writing Curriculum for Middle and High School Students

 

Science Teacher and Summer Field Studies coordinator, Jemez Valley High School, New Mexico

 

 

 

 

 

Ross Finney, 2000

 

The Ashland Green Business Program

 

Project Coordinator, Jackson County SMART Business Program

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Hopkins, 1999

 

Stacking Straw, Benefits of Strawbale Construction, A Curriculum Guide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Meisner, 1998

 

Developing a conservation of natural resources plan in Elko, Nevada

 

Winner of 2002 Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science Outstanding High School Science Teacher!

 

 

 

 

 

Christina DeCesare, 1997

 

Entomology and Children: a study of insect perceptions and development of related curriculum

 

 

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