FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 18, 2008
Media Advisory
WHAT: Flip Nicklin, National Geographic contributing photographer and cofounder of Whale Trust, to speak at the Stroud Water Research Center’s annual fundraising gala, The Water’s Edge — and present a special children’s workshop at the Stroud Water Research Center on October 2, 2008
WHEN:
The Water’s Edge
“Whales, A Changing View”
Thursday, October 2, 2008
6:15 p.m. Lecture and Dinner
Children’s Education Workshop
“The Art of Communicating Science”
Thursday, October 2, 2008
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
WHERE:
The Water’s Edge
Longwood Gardens
The Pavilion
Kennett Square, PA
Children’s Education Workshop
Stroud Water Research Center
970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311
Avondale, Pa. – On Thursday, October 2, 2008, the Stroud Water Research Center will host its 6th annual fundraising gala, The Water’s Edge, at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. Featured speaker Flip Nicklin, a National Geographic contributing photographer and the foremost underwater photographer in the world will present “Whales, A Changing View.” Nicklin will also join the Stroud education staff earlier in the day to present a special children’s education program for Tatnall School’s 7th grade Life Sciences students entitled “The Art of Communicating Science”; this program will take place at the Stroud Water Research Center’s Avondale campus.
“I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to speak at The Water’s Edge and to participate in the Stroud Water Research Center’s education program as well,” said Nicklin, the co-founder of Whale Trust, a not-for-profit research and environmental education organization based in Maui. “Education provides both of our organizations with the platform to share our research findings with others — and that’s critical to the preservation and protection of all the world’s resources.”
Students from the Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware, will benefit from an unusual enhancement to their watershed education program. Nicklin will join these students on White Clay Creek and share his philosophy about photography’s role in environmental education, beginning their experience with a presentation of his work.
“Scientific work is important — and when what we learn is conveyed to society at large, it has the potential to make life better for everyone,” said Karen Barker, Life Sciences teacher at the Tatnall School in Wilmington, Delaware. “Tatnall School’s approach to the sciences has always been that we learn best by doing, so the experiential approach taken by the Stroud Water Research Center with its watershed education programs is a great fit. Our students are observing, thinking, and doing the work of scientists — and that’s really exciting.”
Media Coverage
Media are welcome to attend and photograph “The Art of Communicating Science” program at the Stroud Water Research Center from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on October 2, 2008. Nicklin will present his photography from 11 a.m. to 11:20 a.m., followed by a brief question-and-answer session. Nicklin will then join Stroud educators and Tatnall students for the remainder of the program on White Clay Creek.
Journalists are also invited to attend the lecture portion of The Water’s Edge fundraising gala at 6:15 p.m.
