Every time I present at a school, I am always struck by how hungry students are for hands-on environmental education. Revently, I had the pleasure of meeting with over 200 students from Linda Vista Elementary …

We spent a great evening at Millennial Tech Middle School’s Winter Science Festival in the Chollas View neighborhood of San Diego. San Diego Coastkeeper Core volunteer Caitlin, San Diego Coastkeeper’s education coordinator Nia, and I …

An aquifer is an underground layer of rock, gravel, sand or silt through which water can easily move. This water can be extracted for human consumption through the use of a water well. Aquifers provide …

  Welcome Allison Price to our Community Advisory Council. She represents the Mission Valley area. On my very first day with San Diego Coastkeeper, Waterkeeper Jill Witkowski came to me with an idea to change …

The water cycle, also known as the hydrological cycle, is the process in which water moves and changes on Earth. All the water on Earth, whether it’s the water that we drink, the water that …

What do you remember about your elementary school science classes? I remember sitting in class, reading textbooks while the teacher droned on and on about some obscure science concept that was dense, dry and so …

When most people think of San Diego, they think sun, surf and sand. It surprises most people to learn that the county ranks as the 12th largest farming economy among the more than 3,000 counties nationwide. With …

A watershed is an area of land where all the water from rainfall, streams and rivers drain to a common outlet like reservoirs, bays or larger rivers. It is the ecosystem in which we all …

Teaching science for over 5 years, I found we have ingrained conservation into the minds of our students. From third grade to college, they can rattle off a laundry list of ways they can make …

If you don’t know, Coastkeeper’s legal clinic is a win-win-win-win. The students get to learn. We get to stretch our programmatic resources. The legal profession gets trained attorneys at graduation. We grow the capacity of …