{"id":62844,"date":"2021-05-06T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=62844"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:14:08","slug":"museum-staff-connects-with-students-on-climate-change-and-forests","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/museum-staff-connects-with-students-on-climate-change-and-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Staff Connects With Students on Climate Change and Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62853\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Erin-3_640.jpg\" alt=\"Museum educator Erin Apple preparing for her Zoom program. \" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Erin-3_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Erin-3_640-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Erin-3_640-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Erin Apple, Coordinator of Youth Programs at the NCMNS and a member of the YES-Resilience Project Team, connects with program participants over Zoom in preparation for demonstrating a prescribed burn at Prairie Ridge Ecostation in Raleigh, NC. Photo: Dana Haine\/UNC IE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the UNC Institute for the Environment\u2019s Center for Public Engagement\u00a0With\u00a0Science, in collaboration with the Museum, conducted a half-day virtual academy on the topic of climate change and forests for students. Erin Apple, the Museum&#8217;s Coordinator of Youth Programs, demonstrated a prescribed burn at Prairie Ridge, described as &#8220;a highlight of the event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ie.unc.edu\/2021\/04\/29\/youth-learn-about-resilience-to-wildfires-prescribed-burns-and-air-quality-impacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more about this collaboration<\/a>\u00a0between UNC and the Museum.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>For more information about our upcoming activities, seasonal news and ground-breaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/naturalsciences\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naturalsciences\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturalsciences\/\">Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0Join the conversation with #visitNCMNS. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62854,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/62844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/62844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}