Online Faculty and Student Forum
By Elizabeth Terp,
Volunteer
Earthwatch, a program that connects volunteers to researchers, had 11 individuals living at the Kelly Campus and volunteering with the Conservation Research Center this past week. Embere Hall, Conservation Research Center Research Director, explained that the volunteers help the Conservation Research Center with bird identification, bird banding, and nest searching. Read the rest of this entry »
The Kelly Campus Observatory has two new additions: A large, state-of-the-art telescope and the “Astronomy Guy”. This time things just fell into place. Less than two weeks after former Teton Science Schools graduate student, Sam Singer, returned to work on the Kelly Campus Graduate Faculty, a pristine, Meade 14-inch RCX400 telescope was donated by a resident of Jackson Hole. Read the rest of this entry »
By Elizabeth Terp,
Volunteer
Fourteen Elderhostelers from several states were here for a week exploring the heritage of Jackson Hole and Grand Teton National Park. Below, they were learning about the natural history of the National Elk Refuge at the Miller Homestead. Later in the day they hiked to a viewpoint of the Gros Ventre Slide, a geological event in 1925 that caused Jackson, rather than Kelly, to become the county seat and center of developed land. Read the rest of this entry »
By Elizabeth Terp,
Volunteer
Thirty students from Cascadia Montessori Middle School are here for a residential week exploring Patterns in Nature and Knowing Your World as a Researcher. Their principal, David Drakos, explained that the school plans a week of residential education for every student each year to explore communities unlike the Pacific Northwest. Read the rest of this entry »
By Robin Brooks,
Graduate Faculty
The past two weeks the spring outreach team has been teaching on the Wind River Reservation. The five graduate students spent the first week teaching at the Arapaho Elementary School near Riverton, Wyoming. Read the rest of this entry »
