Environmental Education

Fellow Story

Buysse's outdoor school uses nature to teach students to thrive

“My favorite thing to say is that you can't protect anything until you love it,” says Fellow Jen-Osha Buysse, co-founder and director of West Virginia's Mountain Stewardship & Outdoor Leadership program. “Mountain SOL is all about learning from a place of fun and adventure, and connecting new experiences and learning with coming from a place of passion.”
October 2, 2019
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Avalon Owens

2019 Fellow
Avalon C.S. Owens is passionate about lights — living lights, especially bioluminescent fireflies, and the artificial light that humans impose on the environment. Avalon is working to better our understanding of how artificial light at...
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Lourdes Vera

2019 Fellow
Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas...
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Nigel Golden

2019 Fellow
Nigel Golden is a Research Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. His interests has ranged in focus from Arctic ecology, justice-informed wildlife and environmental conservation, Decolonizing Methodologies, and STEM education...
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Frances Roberts-Gregory

2019 Fellow
Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory is a feminist political ecologist and environmental anthropologist. Her activist scholarship interrogates how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women within Louisiana's river and bayou parishes navigate...
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Brittani Orona

2019 Fellow
Brittani R. Orona is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Human Rights at UC Davis in Spring 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American...
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Ardoin named new director of Stanford's interdisciplinary program in environment and resources

Fellow Nicole Ardoin has been named director of Stanford's Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) and is also the inaugural Emmett Family Faculty Scholar. From Chris Field, director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, where she holds a join appointment with the Stanford Graduate School of Education:
December 1, 2018
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Ardoin wins Everhart Award for work on environmental learning and sustainability practices

The William C. Everhart Award was presented to Fellow Nicole M. Ardoin for recognition of sustained achievements that illuminate, provide creative insights, and that foster an appreciation of our natural and cultural heritage.
November 10, 2018
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Dylan Harris

2018 Fellow
Dylan M. Harris is an Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). His work is on the stories we tell (and don't tell) about climate change, focusing specifically on...
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Kathryn (Katey) Lesneski

2018 Fellow
Originally from Massachusetts, Katey graduated from Brown University in 2012 with a BS in Geo-Biology. She always had a passion for conducting science that produces tangible outcomes to support knowledge that communities have of the state...