Environmental Education
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open space imageOpen Space Stewardship Program

The Office of Educational Programming at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), in conjunction with the “Green” institute “Growing Research Experience in the Environment,” has launched an open space stewardship program. The program fosters partnerships between schools and land stewards in their local communities and is designed to:

  • Open Space imagebenefit land stewards in the management of their property;
  • help students to learn about the scientific process through working with real-life data in the field;
  • promote scientific literacy;
  • encourage students to consider careers in science and technology; and
  • foster a sense of civic responsibility and respect for open space property in participating students.

    • Camp Sea Wolf staff will institute in the 2007 season an introductory open space stewardship program utilizing the program components under the guidance of the BNL staff for open space stewardship.

    Open space imageThe Professional Education Program - Outreach at Stony Brook University, which administers the Sea Wolf Program, will provide campers with a stewardship database provided by Southold Town to initiate a protocol that will be approved by BNL educational staffers. Aerial photographs assessing specific ecosystems discussing and identifying specific problems and needs to remediate will be identified that are specific to Southold Town.

    Campers enrolled in this initiative will be encouraged to take their training and knowledge back to their own communities in hopes of developing a similar stewardship program in their own school and town under the leadership of trained staff and the guidance of the BNL educational leaders.

    The data collected from this introductory program within Southold Town will be shared with the BNL staffers.

     

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