Sean Nordquist making a difference in human and ecological communities

2015 Mar 9

St. Petersburg, Fla, resident Sean Nordquist, a graduate student in the Global Field Program (GFP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, has been awarded a Community Engagement badge from the university for making a difference in human and ecological communities. As part of the GFP, students like Nordquist apply the tools of conservation science and advance the tenets central to the master's degree: inquiry, community and voice.

Through his Conservation Science & Community course project entitled "An Ecological Sense of Place in the Tampa Bay Area," Nordquist measured students' relative knowledge of ecological community and commercial community in the Tampa Bay Area. Nordquist is a program and environmental outreach coordinator at Hillsborough Community College - Institute of Florida Studies.

As part of his master's program coursework, Nordquist studied approaches to environmental stewardship in the Central American country of Belize. Study sites include 13 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas.

The GFP master's degree is designed for educators and other professionals from all disciplines and settings who are interested in working collaboratively to bring about change in local and global contexts. Applicants can be from anywhere in the United States or abroad. To learn more about the GFP, visit http://gfp.miamioh.edu/.

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