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Keynote Addresses

Saturday 9:00 AM

Ken Bowald
Associate Dean of the School of Natural Resources at Hocking College
 "Cairns, Forks, and Switchbacks along the Environmental Education Trail”

For over 25 years, Ken Bowald has been involved in various forms of Outdoor Environmental Education and Interpretation, and was at the OCOEA conference when the name EECO was born!  Upon graduating from Ohio University, Ken worked at YMCA Storer Camps as an Outdoor Educator, then moved to direct OE programs in Upstate New York and Western Michigan. After completing a Master's degree from Northern Illinois University, Ken returned to Ohio in 1993.  He became the Historical Interpreter for Cleveland Metroparks, and introduced "Dr.Dumpster" to about 15,000 school children. For the past 13 years, Ken has been a Professor and Coordinator of Natural and Historical Interpretation at Hocking College, and recently assumed the position of Associate Dean of the School of Natural Resources.  Having spent most of his career introducing other people's children to the wonders of being in the woods, he now spends much of that energy motivating his own kids to overcome "nature deficit disorder", and training new environmental educators to take up this worthy cause.
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Saturday 12:30 PM

Barbara Wolfe, DVM, Ph.D.
 Director of Wildlife and Conservation Medicine at the Wilds
“Conservation Medicine: Today's Research, Tomorrow's EE"

Join Dr. Barbara Wolfe as she speaks about where EE is going in the future.  In the context of Conservation Medicine, learn about Ohio-based projects that incorporate a better understanding of relationships between the environment, wild animals and us.

Dr. Wolfe earned a Bachelors of Science in Molecular Genetics from the University of California, Davis and a D.V.M. and Ph.D. in Veterinary Physiology from Texas A & M University.   She  completed postdoctoral research and clinical residency at the Smithsonian’s  National Zoo, and served as  a clinical veterinarian for the North Carolina Zoological Park prior to her arrival at the Wilds .  In addition to her current post at the Wilds, Dr. Wolfe holds adjunct faculty positions at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Muskingum University and North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine.  Dr. Wolfe is a diplomat of the American College of Zoological Medicine, is the Chairman of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, and is  Veterinary Advisor to the AZA’s Antelope Taxon Advisory Group.  Her primary research interests are in reproductive and stress physiology and wildlife health and she has authored over 40 articles and book chapters. dw