* Michelle Larkins (Presenter) Assistant Professor, Environment and Sustainability, Fort Lewis College (https://www.fortlewis.edu/academics/schools-departments/faculty-directory/faculty-details/larkins) Michelle will share perspectives on relational teaching methods and working with community partners, as part of a field course on the Navajo Nation with ESS students that examines Indigenous energy sovereignty and just energy transitions.

* Heather Skaza Acosta (Presenter) Director, Whitaker Center for STEM Education; Associate Professor of Environmental Education, Florida Gulf Coast University (https://www.fgcu.edu/directory/hskaza-acosta)  Heather will share how an interdisciplinary team of students and researchers at Florida Gulf Coast University is developing an ArcGIS Storymap to collect data, recorded stories, and photographs to paint a picture of the historical impacts of storms in the Gulf Coast region, particularly for our most vulnerable communities.

* Ross Guida (Presenter) Associate Professor Environmental Science Advisor/Coordinator, Sam Houston State University (SHSU https://www.shsu.edu/academics/environmental-and-geosciences/people/guida1.html).

Ross will highlight how he engages environmental science students at SHSU in a wide range of policy, ecology, and physical and social science issues along the Texas coast, in collaboration with the Galveston Park Board, Army Corps, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and The Nature Conservancy. Ross and his team of colleagues will be expanding upon this work as part of the National Academies’-funded Gulf Scholars Program for undergraduates.

* Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Maximillian (Presenter) Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona (https://envs.arizona.edu/person/jacqueline-jackie-maximillian). Jackie will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using virtual reality in an online water quality sampling and measurement class

* Jacob Park (Moderator/Facilitator), Jacob is Associate Professor at Vermont State University-Castleton (https://www.castleton.edu/directory/faculty-staff-directory/details/jacob-park0 and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) https://www.uj.ac.za/members/prof-jacob-park.