Speakers Bureau

 

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Learn more about your local culture and the great natural resources in the Barnegat Bay estuary and watershed.

 

 

The Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program is pleased to provide you with the following Speakers’ Bureau listings to provide expert lecturers for your classroom, garden club, yacht club, environmental commission, or other interested group.  Some of the listings are links to other organizations which also offer a Speakers’ Bureau in order to provide a comprehensive listing of what is available in the Barnegat Bay watershed.

 

This directory will be updated as needed, and if you or someone you know would like to be added to the directory, or you find that there is outdated material in our listings, please contact Mary Judge at (732) 255-0472, ext. 1, or e-mail mjudge@ocean.edu.

 

After reviewing the topics below, please contact the speaker directly (by clicking on the name) to make your arrangements.

Click here to download a PDF of the full alphabetized list of speaker biographies and additional information.

 

Aquaculture (the cultivation of fish or shellfish for food)

Paul Jivoff

Jim Merritt (Sedge Islands)

Cara Muscio

 

Barnegat Bay Boating

Kent Mountford (Barnegat Bay catboats)

Robert O’Brien

 

Barnegat Bay Ecology

Elizabeth Huch and Patricia Schuster

Rich King

Kent Mountford

Robert O’Brien

Jeanine Cava

John Wnek

 

Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program

Richard Kunze

Jeanine Cava

 

Birds

Christopher Claus and Staff

Elizabeth Huch and Patricia Schuster

Rich King

Georgina Lentini

 

Bulkheading Impacts on Species Diversity

Paul Jivoff

 

Clean Marina Program

Tali Engoltz

 

Clean Ocean Zone (NY/NJ Bight)

Clean Ocean Action

 

Climate Change (see also Sea Level Rise)

Pola Galie (The Effect of Climate Change on Wildlife)

Kenneth G. Miller

 

Energy Conservation and Use

New Jersey Natural Gas

Oyster Creek Generating Station

 

Environmental Education

Elizabeth Huch and Patricia Schuster

Paul Jivoff

Jim Merritt

Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County

John Wnek

 

Gardening for the Barnegat Bay

Rutgers Cooperative Extension

 

History of Barnegat Bay

Kent Mountford

Robert O’Brien

 

Horseshoe Crabs

Elizabeth Huch and Patricia Schuster

 

Kayaking

Jim Merritt

 

Local Culture and Folklore

Mary May (Pineland Basket Making)

 

Mosquito and Mosquito Control

Mike Romanowski

 

Natural Resource Education Foundation of New Jersey/

"Experience Barnegat Bay"

Pola Galie

 

Natural Science Topics

Christopher Claus and Staff

Elizabeth Huch and Patricia Schuster (also offer a children’s program)

Rich King

John Wnek (Education and integrating the bay into classroom curricula)

 

Non-point Source Pollution

Clean Ocean Action

Tali Engoltz

Willie deCamp

 

Ocean County Parks System Overview

Christopher Claus and Staff

 

Ocean County Utilities Authority

Richard Kunze (Wastewater reclamation and the hydrologic cycle)

 

Ocean Pollution

Clean Ocean Action

 

Pine Barrens

Pinelands Commission

Pinelands Preservation Alliance

 

Rider University

Paul Jivoff (Experiential Educational Opportunities)

 

Sea Level Rise

Kenneth G. Miller

 

Water Quality, Water Supply, and Recreation

Cara Muscio (Watershed Management and Monitoring)

Pinelands Preservation Alliance

 

Wildlife

Christopher Claus and Staff (Birds, Reptiles)

Pola Galie (Endangered and Nongame Species)

Rich King (Barnegat Bay food chain)

Paul Jivoff (Blue Crabs, Green Crabs)

Cara Muscio (Shellfish Restoration Program)

Pinelands Preservation Alliance 

 

 

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