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Dr. Amanda Waite is the Director of Science Education & Advancement for ANGARI Foundation where she develops and implements education programs for K-12 students that work to break down barriers between scientists and the public while encouraging ocean literacy and active engagement in marine science.

Kanesa Duncan-Seraphin is Director of the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Center for Marine Science Education. Our work focuses on making ocean science accessible—breaking down the barriers of how and by whom research is conducted, providing career connections and engaging the community in societal issues.

As Environmental Education Coordinator for the Town Of Madison, CT, Julie Ainsworth designs and teaches field studies for local schools, and classes for the public at the town’s beaches, marshes, forests and ponds.

Debbi Stone shares how a collaboration between The Florida Aquarium, the Tampa Bay STEM Network, and Earth2Ocean, Inc. helped author and scientist Dr. Ellen Prager virtually transport audiences to the Galápagos Islands with her new book, Escape Galápagos.

Art and Science came together beautifully in Valerie Cournoyer’s Plastics in the Ocean Turtle Sculpture Project at Amity High School in Woodbridge, CT, funded by the Jamie Hulley Arts Foundation in 2019.

As the Education Coordinator for the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia, Sarah Nuss works with students, teachers, and the general public, teaching them about the Chesapeake Bay.

Emily Davenport is the Education & Outreach Lead for a grant-funded project called ECOGIG—which stands for Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf. Here, she shares couple of great distance learning options for parents and kids!