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Calumet Nature Exchange


Megan Sharp and Brekke Bounds discuss a proposed partnership between the Illinois and Indiana affiliates of the North American Association for Environmental Education and how that would better serve educators in the Calumet Region.

Laura Barghusen, Blueways Director at Openlands, provides an update on her work with partners along the Little Calumet River in Beaubien Woods and the neighborhoods west of Beaubien Woods. They seek to protect and restore open space, and raise awareness of the significant history of the area

Calumet Nature Exchange featuring Marwah Saleh and Amy Romo, education program specialists of the Chicago Academy of Sciences at Peggy Notebaert Museum, on their work in the Calumet region.

It is a discussion on  Wolf Lake Abides: People & Nature in the Anthropocene led by filmmaker Dave McGowan, Dr. Phil Willink, fish biologist, and historian Dr. Ted Karamanski of Loyola University.


​Dan Spencer, southeast regional ecologist for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, talks about his areas of concerns, especially the Powderhorn Lake Nature Preserve.


​Cameron Nealy, a graduate student with the Paleoclimate and Sedimentology Laboratory at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, talks about the process of coring and what information it can reveal about past Hydroclimate (rain, snow, drought, floods, etc.) for the Midwest.

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