October First Saturday Seminar

Name: October First Saturday Seminar
Start: 2024-10-05T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-05T10:00:00-04:00
Location: 617 Surry St , Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28401

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 08:00 am to 10:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

617 Surry St , Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28401 | Wilmington, NC

Join us on October 5th at 9 am at 617 Surry St for our October first Saturday seminar, details are below!
Description:
The King Tide season is here! Join Wetlands Watch, the North Carolina Coastal Federation (NCCF), and Plastic Ocean Project (POP) to learn all about the multidisciplinary partnership of the tidal flood monitoring program Catch the King and opportunities to participate in mapping, data collection, and Trees4Trash™ beach cleanup events. Wetlands Watch will share outcomes and aspirations of their NOAA-funded expansion pilot of Catch the King (originally a Virginia-based program) in North Carolina. Coordinators and volunteers of NCCF and POP will share how Catch the King aligns with their coastal research and volunteer programming.
About the Speakers:
Gabi Kinney (left photo) is a UNCW Marine Biology alum with deep passion for facilitating climate adaptation through community perspectives and values. In 2023, Gabi received a master's degree in Natural Resources, specializing in Global Sustainability, and has since become a Certified Floodplain Manager and Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional through her work at Wetlands Watch, an environmental nonprofit based in Norfolk, Virginia. As the Community Engagement Project Manager, Gabi runs several multidisciplinary programs centered around place-based education and amplifying local responses to sea level rise adaptation and the impacts of climate-driven flooding, which includes her coordination of the community science flood mapping program Catch the King.
Jess Elliot (middle photo) is a UNCW alum passionate about marine biology and environmental science. She grew up in Iowa along the Mississippi River, where she saw firsthand the impact of plastic pollution on local environments. At UNCW, she completed a thesis on terrapin physiology, and began spending time in the Plastic Ocean Project lab studying microplastics found in locally stranded dolphins. After graduation she continued in the microplastics lab for a year before working as a biological assistant studying sea turtles and shorebirds at Cape Lookout National Seashore, and has now returned to Wilmington to continue her work with the Plastic Ocean Project.
Warren Darrell (right photo) is an environmental science instructor with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and an active volunteer with the North Carolina Coastal Federation, The Coastal Estuarine Research Reserve, and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. He has master's degrees in environmental engineering and environmental science.