Program name: Biodiversity Inventory Training
Field station name: Bard College Field Station
Outreach program type: Other
Years active: 5-10 years
Frequency: Annually
Course credit: No
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Outreach program characteristics
[✓ = applies to this outreach program, ✗ = does not apply to this outreach program]
Outreach Goals
- ✗ Build community
- ✓ Disseminate place-based knowledge and/or skills
- ✗ Encourage conservation or environmental stewardship
- ✗ Inspire curiosity
- ✗ Make field station resources available to the public
- ✗ Promote STEM careers
- ✗ Raise awareness of the field station's work
- ✗ Raise money
- ✓ Reach a particular audience
- ✗ Teach about the environment generally
- ✗ Teach researchers how to communicate with the public
Approaches for Learner Engagement
Strands of Informal Science Learning
Outreach Content
Not all topics are directly tied to the place where the program is situated.
- ✗ Animals
- ✗ Archeology
- ✗ Art
- ✗ Astronomy
- ✓ Biodiversity
- ✗ Biology
- ✗ Botany
- ✗ Chemistry
- ✗ Climate
- ✗ Conservation
- ✗ Ecology
- ✗ Ecosystems
- ✗ Engineering
- ✗ Environment
- ✗ Environmental Philosophy
- ✗ Evolution
- ✗ Field Science
- ✗ Fungi
- ✗ General Science
- ✗ Genetics
- ✗ Geographic Information Systems
- ✗ Land management
- ✗ Leadership
- ✗ Learning about Technology
- ✗ Limnology
- ✗ Marine Science
- ✗ Mathematics
- ✗ Microorganisms
- ✗ Natural History
- ✗ Paleontology
- ✗ Physics
- ✗ Plants
- ✗ Preservation
- ✗ Science Communication
- ✗ Social Sciences
- ✗ STEM Career Awareness
- ✓ Using Technology
- ✗ Water
- ✗ Other
Outreach program implementation and planning
People Involved
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