Clean Water Conversations

Episode 40 - Leadership Lancaster: Jennifer Diaz and Sarah Kemble

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2270172/fan_mail/new] This episode features Jennifer Diaz and Sarah Kemble of Leadership Lancaster.  Sarah and Jennifer are both exceptional storytellers who make us laugh, think, and become inspired to take our next steps.  It's a fun and insightful discussion on leadership, collaboration, and connection.  We also hear from Sallie Gregory, Lancaster County Conservation District's Education and Operations Coordinator, who tells us about an opportunity for K-12 students at Lancaster County Youth Conservation School. Here are links from the discussion: https://leadershiplancaster.org/ [https://leadershiplancaster.org/] https://lancasterconservation.org/youth-conservation-school/ [https://lancasterconservation.org/youth-conservation-school/]

Episode 39 - Three Colleges: Dr. Nanette Marcum-Dietrich, Dr. David Bowne, and Nicholas Auwaerter

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2270172/fan_mail/new] We continue our theme of education in the conservation world with this Conversation with Lancaster County's three formal institutes of higher learning. Franklin & Marshall College [https://www.fandm.edu/], Millersville University [https://www.millersville.edu/], and Elizabethtown College [https://www.etown.edu/] each provide robust environmental studies programs, complemented by hands-on and extracurricular experiences that deepen student learning. Beyond campus, all three are actively involved with local K–12 students through outreach efforts, partnerships, and educational programming. Together, these efforts highlight a shared priority across Lancaster County’s higher education institutions: not only educating students about environmental stewardship, but fostering a broader culture of responsibility and care that extends to future generations. Watershed Education Training Institute [https://www.millersville.edu/weti/]

Episode 38 - Diana Oviedo Vargas and Melinda Daniels

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2270172/fan_mail/new] In this episode, we talk with Diana Oviedo Vargas and Melinda Daniels, Research Scientists from Stroud Water Research Center about what brought them to water science, the impact Stroud is making in helping to positively affect our waterways, and we play a game of Hiking Trivia.

Episode 37 - Tom Ackerman

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2270172/fan_mail/new] Season 5 of Clean Water Conversations is all about environmental education and who better to talk on the subject than Tom Ackerman, the Vice President of Education at Chesapeake Bay Foundation [https://www.cbf.org/]? We talk with Tom about the challenges and rewards of getting students outside of the classroom, the current curriculum, and saving Abraham Lincoln. We also play a round of National Park trivia.

Episode 36 - Valerie Gray and Mr. Brandon Bixler

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2270172/fan_mail/new] In this episode, we are talking with Mr. Brandon Bixler, Agriculture and Environmental studies teacher and FFA staff advisor at McCaskey High School and Valerie Gray, student and president of the FFA Chapter at McCaskey High School. We discuss FFA in an urban school setting, how to explain Lancaster County farming to Floridians and how a stuffed bird can make a good booth-minder.    Learn more about McCaskey High School's FFA Chapter [https://www.facebook.com/p/McCaskey-FFA-Agricultural-and-Environmental-Science-Program-61569933571515/]