Opening Keynote
Tuesday, October 6—8:30 to 9:30 AM PDT
Tuesday, October 6—8:30 to 9:30 AM PDT
Carlie D. Trott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, where she directs the Just Climate Futures Lab and advises doctoral students in the Community and Organizational Research for Action (CORA) program. A social psychologist by training and community psychologist in practice, Dr. Trott’s climate justice research aims to bring visibility to, and work against the inequitable impacts of climate change, socially and geographically.
Wednesday, October 7—4:00 to 5:30 PM PDT
Engaging People in Educational Processes that Foster Environmentally Valuable Outcomes
NAAEE’s suite of eeWORKS projects analyzed a wide array of international research findings on what is important and effective in connecting people and nature, and motivating environmental action through education. Join us at this plenary session to discuss a recently published synthesis of the ‘meta findings’ of eeWORKS, and their implications for the field.
Panelists:
Nicole Ardoin is an associate professor of Environmental Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. She was Stanford's lead researcher on the eeWORKS initiative in partnership with NAAEE.
Heidi Ballard is Professor of Environmental Science Education and Founder and Faculty Director of the Center for Community and Citizen Science (CCS) in the School of Education at University of California, Davis. Her work focuses on what and how adults and youth learn through community science, citizen science and other forms of public participation in scientific research working toward environmental stewardship and action.
Alison Bowers holds a PhD in Educational Research and Evaluation from Virginia Tech. Her background and experience include working as a field-based environmental educator with the Cooperative Extension Service and at the national scale with nonprofit conservation and education organizations.
Having co-authored 12 books and manuals (including three for NAAEE); published 33 book chapters, 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 198 extension fact sheets; and served on 160 graduate student committees in her 20 years at the University of Florida, Dr. Martha Monroe is a prolific leader and contributor for catalyzing environmental education research.
Alan Reid is a Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He leads its Education, Environment and Sustainability Faculty Research Group. Until 2012, he worked at the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath, and is active in a range of environmental education research activities and networks, primarily in Europe, North America and Australasia.