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Episode 49 – Monkeys, and bunnies, and seals, oh my!

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In 2022, we published three resiliency fables written by students participating in a Duke Engage summer program at Duke University Marine Lab.  The fables —  Ollie the Orca. Gilbert the Grouper, Terry the Tree and The Live Oak and The Wind — were an experiment, developed as part of a resiliency curriculum being co-developed by the Community Science Initiative and Carteret County middle school teachers. Little did the students know, the fables would go on to become the centerpiece of the Ready, Set, Resilience curriculum, and participating middle school students would even write their own fables. Under the guidance of middle school teachers Robert Condie and Kayla Ipock, 8th grade students at Broad Creek Middle School wrote a total of 60 fables!  This episode features 6 of our favorites.

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Rory McCollum (BA, MEM) completed her Masters at Duke in 2022, focued on community-based and coastal environmental management. She then served as a Community Engagement Fellow at DUML. She loves connecting with community members of all ages, and her passion is running youth programs and learning about how our team can better support the young people here.

 

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Dr. Liz DeMattia is a Research Scientist at the Duke University Marine Lab and the founding director of DUML’s Community Science Initiative. Liz has more than 25 years of experience conducting ecological research and developing environmental outreach for community-based conservation programs. When not working on education and conservation programs, Liz can be found swimming in the ocean, hiking in the forest, or hanging out with her family.

 

 

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In this first of a three episode series, Amy Buckalew, reads her story of Ollie the Orca. The story draws explores concepts of resilience and was written as part of a Duke Engage summer program at Duke University Marine Lab. The program was run by Dr. Liz DeMattia, director of the Community Science Initiative, with the assistance of PhD student Laura Givens, who was the site coordinator for Duke Engage, in 2022. Following the ‘reading’, Laura interviews Amy on her experiences in the program and the logic of the story.

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Episode 33 – Terry the Tree and The Live Oak and The Wind

In this third installment of a three episode series, Spencer Moyle reads his story of Terry the Tree and Rory McCollum follows with The Live Oak and the Wind. Both stories were written as part of a Duke Engage program exploring concepts of social and ecological resilience.  The program was run by Dr. Liz DeMattia, director of the Community Science Initiative, with the assistance of PhD student Laura Givens, who was the site coordinator for Duke Engage, in 2022.  Following the ‘reading’, Laura interviews the authors on their experiences in the program and how they crafted their stories.

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Episode 32 – Gilbert the Grouper

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In this second of a three episode series, Andres Hernandez reads his story of Gilbert the Grouper. The story explores concepts of resilience and was written as part of a Duke Engage summer program at Duke University Marine Lab. The program was run by Dr. Liz DeMattia, director of the Community Science Initiative, with the assistance of PhD student Laura Givens, who was the site coordinator for Duke Engage, in 2022. Following the ‘reading’, Laura interviews Andres on his experiences in the program and the logic of the story.