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2013 Spring | Education & Outreach

Narrative Methods in Community-Based Aquatic Reserves Management

Student(s):

Lillian Grosz

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Maddie Foutch

Partner(s):

  • Washington Environmental Council

Faculty advisor(s):

Megan Styles, Program on the Environment, University of Washington

I developed education and outreach materials for Citizen Stewardship Committees managed by Washington Environmental Council. Funded by a grant from Washington State’s Department of Natural Resources, the committees perform citizen science, education/outreach, and regulatory policy projects for local aquatic reserves throughout the Puget Sound. I was most interested in human-environment relationships, how committee members related to each other and to the Aquatic reserves for which they serve as stewards. In order to describe these relationships, I carried out a brief research study utilizing short-answer and essay-style surveys.