People

I am the founder, president, and executive director of the International Raptor and Falconry Center. I am a raptor ecologist with a research emphasis on eagles, particularly Golden Eagles. I am a master falconer, environmental educator, and raptor rehabilitator. I hold a Ph.D. with my dissertation research focusing on Arizona’s Golden Eagle nesting ecology and productivity. I hold an MS in Environmental Policy and Management and an MS in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies. With all that, my real passion and vision are to have a place that people can learn and experience the birds that I hold dear. I founded IRFC in March 2017. To my knowledge, I am one of the very few individuals that is a master falconer, researcher holding a Ph.D., rehabilitator, and educator. Although you can be one without the other, I set out to be an interdisciplinary expert that intertwines all expertise to provide me with unique insight.

I enjoy to spend time outside and painting. I like to look for interesting flowers and see how bees pollinate with them. Beaches are a place I love to relax at.

Justin's work as K-12 Science Coordinator in the town of Suffield CT focuses on deeping connections to community and nature for all students in the district though a platform called 'K-5 Outside.'  Using a place based lens, Justin is guiding a district with transition to place based education and actively working to enable teachers to take the learning outdoors.  Justin also serves as NAAE Affilate organization the Connecticut Outdoor and Environmental Educators Association (COEEA) president.   

Hello! My name is Sofie and I work as an environmental educator for the NOVA region.

I am a teacher working outside the conventional classroom striving to reimagine the spaces we learn in.
I believe that connection is what our world needs most: with the physical world, with each other, and with ourselves.
I build and co-create learning communities and design experiences, unconstrained with the walls of classrooms and boardrooms, to help people explore these connections, uncover passions, and explore what it means to be human.

I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Education in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University. I work collaboratively with educators and youth on design-based research to understand and develop pathways for people to learn about and care for the natural world we are all a part of. I focus on urban communities and explore questions of environmental identity, environmental literacy about complex ecological issues, and the structure and function of learning ecosystems.

Fossil Rim invests in the future by providing formalized training to foster talented young people into the professions of wildlife conservation and education, veterinary medicine and the care of husbandry and wildlife. Many of our dedicated, intelligent and hardworking Fossil Rim interns go on to work in zoological, wildlife and conservation fields. Providing quality hands-on conservation training is one of the efforts of which Fossil Rim is most proud.