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I am the Senior Volunteering and Communities Officer for National Trust South Down, I have 10 years experience managing community and environmental grants through my role at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful. In my spare time I enjoy foraging and making tasty jams & chutneys from the hedgerow treats!

We are very fortunate to have somehow chosen to be a part of the greater education profession. Long ago while growing up in South Dakota on the cliffs of the Missouri River my grandparents were models of my becoming. For the past 50 years I have been sharing his love of nature with others.

Lover of the outdoors, summer sun, and lettuce.

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. Professor Ardoin´s research focuses on environmental behavior as influenced by environmental learning and motivated by place-based connections. In particular, she is interested in considerations of geographic scale, which is an understudied yet crucial aspect of people-place relationships in a rapidly globalizing, urbanizing world. Professor Ardoin and members of her Social Ecology Lab work in collaboration with informal organizations, including museums, zoos/aquariums, parks, and residential environmental education programs, with an emphasis on using innovative, non-traditional metrics and adaptive management approaches. She is also interested in philanthropic support of environmental learning initiatives and emergent trends in the field of environmental education research.