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Guest Speaker: Max Ross (Natural Resource Conservation Service)

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Guest Speaker: Max Ross (Natural Resource Conservation Service)

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Guest Speaker: Mateo Garcia (Slater Museum)

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Guest Speaker: Mateo Garcia (Slater Museum)

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Guest Speakers: Rochelle (Ro) Gandour-Rood, Natalie Jones, and Celina Mina (Tacoma Water)

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Guest Speakers: Rochelle (Ro) Gandour-Rood, Natalie Jones, and Celina Mina (Tacoma Water)

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Mateo is an AmeriCorps member at the Slater Museum of Natural History. Currently, he serves as an Education and Outreach coordinator, working to bring the museum's Nature in the Classroom curriculum to online classrooms. While they're currently closed to the public, he can be found at the computer teaching their Bird Diversity lesson and developing an asynchronous version for anyone, anywhere to learn from.

He recently graduated from Oregon State University's College of Forestry with a BS in Natural Resources. While in college, Mateo had a number of research experiences ranging from examining crayfish diet to tracking fledglings. He wore lots of other hats as a tour guide, affinity group mentor, and environmental education volunteer with the Finley Wildlife Refuge. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest, Mateo competed in the California Envirothon and (with his team) placed first in the state Wildlife section! Growing up in Los Angeles, one of his favorite places to go was the Natural History Museum of LA. It's his childhood dream come true to work at a museum where dead things come alive (as they say at the Slater).

When not at the museum and not teaching, Mateo enjoys cycling, reading sci-fi, getting to know the Puget Sound, and playing with his cat Spice Girl.

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Guest Speaker: Rod Pfeifle (WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife)

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Guest Speaker: Rod Pfeifle (WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife)

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Guest Speakers: Amy Pearl and Leika Hansen (Pierce Conservation District)

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Guest Speakers: Amy Pearl and Leika Hansen (Pierce Conservation District)

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Guest Speaker: Faye Peebles (Wolf Haven)

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Guest Speaker: Faye Peebles (Wolf Haven)

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Rochelle (Ro) Gandour-Rood is an outreach program specialist at Tacoma Water, focusing mostly on community engagement and conservation. If you find the Tacoma Public Utilities table at any market, fair, or festival, you’ll see Ro there. Ro also helps out folks who are trying to conserve water in their homes. After living in 8 different cities and towns growing up, Ro is excited to be (and stay) in Tacoma.  Ro has a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College and a MS in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England. Ro has been a middle school science teacher, camp counselor, streamside field trip leader, children’s environmental magazine editor, and educator professional development facilitator. Nowadays, when Ro isn’t talking about how amazing Tacoma’s tap water is, you can find her making paper crafts or growing flowers and veggies in her backyard.

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Natalie Jones is a restoration biologist at Tacoma Water. She works in the Upper Green River Watershed, and gets to do all manner of projects restoring, maintaining, and monitoring ecosystems for wildlife habitat and other ecosystem services.  Natalie grew up on a small nursery on Whidbey Island, and after getting her bachelor's degree from UW she joined the Peace Corps and lived in Senegal for two years.  Upon returning to the United States, she worked through a Ph.D. in Environmental and Forest Sciences from UW's Terrestrial Restoration Ecology lab.  During this time she also taught classes at Edmonds Community College and Monroe Correctional Complex.  When Natalie is not working in the watershed she enjoys trail running with her dog and rock climbing, both of which include frequent pauses to identify plants.

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Amy Pearl works for Pierce Conservation District as their Stream Team Outreach Specialist within the Water Quality Department. She graduated from the University of Washington Bothell (Go Dawgs!) with a Bachelors in Environmental Studies with a focus in Sustainability and Water Quality. She has been working in the environmental world for 3 years now and finds it a rewarding field to be a part of!

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Leika Hansen is an Americorps member working for Pierce Conservation District. Currently, she is working as the Conservation Education Specialist, and recently became a published author in stream ecology from her work as an undergraduate.  From washing dishes, to data management to becoming lab manager of the new ecosystem ecology lab at Brigham Young University, she has enjoyed learning about and protecting water resources in her area through research and community science. She is passionate about the environment and is working to join the field of science communication as her next career step.

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Hello, my name is Max Ross. I was born and raised in Santa Barbara, CA and am now living in Olympia, WA. For as long as I can remember I have been interested in the outdoors and learning about how our natural world functions. During my freshman year of college, I took an introductory soil science course and was immediately hooked. I graduated from Cal Poly with a BS in Earth Sciences and then moved to Moscow, Idaho where I completed an MS in Soil and Land Resources at the University of Idaho. My graduate research focused on the relationships between soil properties and forest communities among different soil types in Idaho’s Northern Rocky Mountains. As I was wrapping up my graduate work, I accepted a position as a Soil Scientist with the USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service in the Mt. Vernon, WA Soil Survey Office. After a year I transferred to the Olympia, WA Soil Survey Office, where I am currently located and serving as the project leader for the soil survey of Olympic National Park. My professional interests include forest soils, soil-plant relationships, and providing soils-related trainings and presentations to any interested audience. Outside of work I enjoy traveling, fishing, archery hunting, playing and refereeing soccer, and exploring the Olympic Peninsula with my wife and our two dogs.

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Faye Peebles has a master’s in Environmental Education from Concordia University and a bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Ecology from Washington State University. Before filling the position of Education Coordinator at Wolf Haven, she began as a volunteer and served as the first education intern. In addition to the work at Wolf Haven, Faye also spends her time volunteering for her community through Girl Scouts, having been a scout and now a leader.

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Rod is a statewide forester working for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife
(WDFW). Rod works out of Ellensburg and is responsible for managing forests on WDFW
wildlife areas across Washington State. He has been in his current position with the agency for
6 years. Prior to working for WDFW, Rod managed state timber trust lands for the Department
of Natural Resources (DNR) in both Southeast and Pacific Cascade Regions for 12 years. He
started his career as a consulting forester for Williamson Consulting, providing forest
management services to private clients and public agencies for 15 years. Rod has a bachelor’s
degree in forest management, with a wildlife option, from Washington State University. When
he is not working, Rod enjoys hunting, fishing, hiking, camping and almost anything outdoors.

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Celine Mina is a water quality engineer at Tacoma Water. She helps to process and analyze information to better understand Tacoma’s water system and how it relates to drinking water treatment, water quality monitoring, and maintenance. Celine holds a BS and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington. Prior to Tacoma Water, Celine worked as a sales engineer for a membrane bioreactor manufacturer and was responsible for the Northeast region. Celine enjoys all things art and travel and cannot wait to plan her next unplanned adventure!