Kickoff to 2025 Science Saturday Season: Learn And Contribute!

Join the LBIF and hosts Rick Bushnell and Darlene Cavalier via Zoom for another great Science Saturday Season. This kick-off will provide an orientation to the series and highlight new engagement opportunities to correspond with each session. For over 15 years, we’ve showcased local experts sharing relevant information about environmental topics impacting Long Beach Island and all who inhabit it (from biodiversity to humans). The purpose of Science Saturday’s have been to try and stimulate people to find facts and information about environmental topics to instill a desire for people to be involved. Starting this year, through our collaboration with SciStarter, we will invite you to learn about and participate in citizen science projects directly related to each weekly talk. These projects not only help you learn by doing but they all advance real world scientific research in need of our help: from tracking migrating species to monitoring air and light pollution, and much more!

About the hosts:

Rick Bushnell is a past president of the LBIF, Chair of the Environmental Stewardship Committee, Chairman of the Board of ReClam The Bay And has been deeply involved in LBI environmental issues for over 20 years. Darlene Cavalier has a home in Barnegat Light and is a new member of the LBIF Environmental Stewardship Committee. In addition to being a “hands on” scientist, she is a professor of practice at Arizona State University and the founder of SciStarter, a popular citizen science portal and research platform connecting millions of people to real science that they can do right here, on LBI.