What is your niche?

Do you enjoy mentoring young people? Do you want to see good science translated into resource management? Then you belong in non-formal education. This is a special form of informal education where learning is voluntary but organized and guided (outside the formal school system). Good examples of non-formal education include any kind of youth development work (boy/girl scouts) and training for professional clubs, societies, and organizations. This audience can be composed of students, teachers, coastal managers, etc. that engage in guided learning opportunities.

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED:

Youth Development

• Work with your local boy/girl scouts to develop a service project related to your research.

Professional Societies, Federal, State and Local Agencies and Government

• Provide a lecture, field trip or demonstration to to a professional society, Federal, State and Local Agencies and Government
  ex. JCNERR Coastal Training Program (CTP) provides coastal decision makers (those who make decisions that affect the coastal zone - including local elected officials, town planners, etc) with "scientific information" that can be applied in resource management.

Family Education

• Collaborate with an informal science museum or nature center to engage visitors in an education project related to your research.
  ex. Bay grasses for Classes – this project engages students in the restoration of eelgrass in the Chesapeake Bay. (Chesapeake Bay Foundation)
  

Pulse People:
Mike Newman

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