Environmental Education
Environmental education is a critical way we accomplish our mission to protect and sustain the unique lands, waters, and biodiversity of West Marin. Our goal is to facilitate lasting and meaningful relationships with the environments of West Marin by providing access to and awareness of the natural world through:
Nature-based field trips and bioblitzes in Marin County Parks for elementary and middle school students
Internships for high school and college students to gain real-world job training in the environmental field
Free programming for youth and families at our our annual Point Reyes Birding & Nature Festival
We believe that providing these opportunities create lasting and meaningful impressions that help to foster the environmental stewards of the future. There is a growing base of research being done around the value of environmental education for improving academic achievement, breaking the indoor habit, improving health and wellbeing, cultivating leadership qualities, and improving focus and cognition.
FIELD TRIPS TO DUXBURY REEF
FREE Intertidal Field Trips with the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC) and the Duxbury Docent Program for 3rd - 6th graders and Youth Groups!
We are excited to offer field trips to Agate Beach/ Duxbury Reef State Marine Conservation Area in partnership with Marin County Parks and our new Duxbury Docent Program!
Students will work in small groups led by naturalists while exploring the living laboratory at Duxbury Reef. Our programming is designed to support team building, observation skills, and movement through hiking and the exploration of habitats. Students document their discoveries using the iNaturalist app on iPads. Observations contribute to biodiversity science, and user findings are shared with scientific data repositories like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to help scientists locate and use citizen science data. Check out past Youth Field Trip iNaturalist Findings.
Field trips are free and we have transportation funding available!
HOW TO SIGN UP
Email education [at] eacmarin.org including your name.
Call EAC’s office at 415-663-9312 and ask for Ashley or Leslie.
INTERNSHIPS
An important part of our advocacy and community engagement work is providing high school, college, and graduate internship opportunities for young people to gain real world job training in the environmental field. Every year, we welcome legal, policy, and coastal advocates into our internship program to gain experience in environmental policy, law, advocacy, community science, and education.
These mentoring opportunities not only provide a meaningful and applicable experience that can be applied to future education and career goals, but they help to foster the environmental stewards of the future who will help protect the resilience and health of the natural world.
