REGISTER NOW! Friday, May 10, 2024 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM @Edwin B. Forsythe NWR Galloway, NJ ------------------------- |
Questions? Contact NJMEA President, Dr. Amy Williams. | Dunes, Microplastics & Polar Bears! Oh My! Teach at the Beach is almost here! We have an exciting list of presenters (see below) who will be discussing topics ranging from microplastics to climate change to polar bears. Program Session details coming soon. If you would like to take advantage of the Early Bird discount before that, registration is now open. Early registration would be very beneficial, especially since we have a limit of 35 participants.
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Presentation List
- Sea How High - An interactive Game by Linda Gaffney, Judy Burr from Rutgers Environmental Stewards & Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Survival Challenge: Can Marine Animals Adapt to Climate Change? By Kaitlin Gannon and Kyra Fitz from The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve/ Rutgers University
- Navigating Microplastics by Mindy Voss from NJ Sea Grant Consortium
- Not Your Average Bear: Using Polar Bears to Connect Students to Climate Change by Carol McCallum from Jenkinsons Aquarium
- The 'ingredients' to build a coastal dune by Bianca Charbonneau from US Coastal Research Program
- Monitor Stream Quality with Benthic Macroinvertebrates by Melanie Thorn from AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program
- Mindfulness in Nature by Anne Price from Waterspirit
Previous Events |
The Aquarium After Dark
March 14, 2024
Thank you, Turbo (and Wally, and Jennifer, and Carol, and the rest of the Jenkinson's Aquarium staff) for opening up your home to NJMEA members and guests with a very pleasant evening of behind the scenes tours and entertainment.
| Lessons Taking Flight: Avian Field and Classroom Activities Thank you, Virginia Rettig, for providing us with a two hour introduction to E. B. Forsythe NWR. It was a morning well spent! We will all be back. |
| If you missed it, you missed a good one! Details for next year coming soon! ---------------------------------------------- Teach at the Beach 2023 Friday, May 19, 2023 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM A very exciting agenda is taking shape for the Teach at the Beach Workshop on May 19, 2023 at Island Beach State Park! It is our signature event of the year and we hope you will join us. The event includes a buffet lunch. The program will have multiple sessions that are geared towards educators teaching grades 4-12+ in both formal and informal settings. Click HERE for more details.
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