Happy Campers Wanted: Sponsor A Child This Summer!
Explore Ecology needs your help to make this summer the best ever for local kids!
We are partnering with Santa Barbara PAL (Police Activities League) and United Way’s Fun in the Sun to provide a fun summer camp experience to local youth grades K-6.
Scholarships to our Explore Ecology Summer Camps are available through PAL’s “Campership Alliance” Program. Established in 2000, this program offers low income families a one stop shop for summer camp scholarships for children.
We are also partnering with United Way of Santa Barbara’s Fun in the Sun Program (FITS) to bring youth on field trips to the Watershed Resource Center and Art From Scrap.
The cost to attend our summer camp is $225 per session. For $300 fifty students in the FITS program can attend one of our field trips.
So far we have secured funding for 4 summer camp scholarships and 170 FITS youth. We need your help to reach even more kids!
Please Donate Now by clicking here so more kids in Santa Barbara County can become Happy Campers and Ecology Explorers!!-
For more information contact Mariana at 805-884-0459 x18.
Joey is grateful to have grown up with an abundance of nature around him and is happiest in the water or in the sun. From a young age, Joey felt a responsibility to take care of the Earth in return for all the ways she has taken care of him. This led Joey to pursue a degree in
I love coming to work and getting pets from everyone. In my spare time, I like to sleep, eat, hike, and explore nature. Did I say eat and sleep?
Emma Serr is an artist and a student studying Studio Art at SBCC. Emma has a background in art and customer service, having worked as a camp counselor at sewing camp and assistant for sewing events and classes, and display manager and cashier in previous positions, and was recently a nanny to several young children. Emma first found us as a customer who loved what Art From Scrap represents!
Veronica grew up in San Diego and spent her last four years in San Luis Obispo studying Animal Science at Cal Poly. As an undergrad she learned lots about livestock, agriculture, and wildlife. Veronica is very passionate about conservation and sustainable agricultural practices. Veronica has spent many summers working in environmental education at various zoos and museums and loves introducing kids to the plants and animals that coexist with us. In her free time, she likes to sit at the beach and read, take dance classes, roller skate, and walk around fancy neighborhoods to look at the houses.
Lu’s love of all things Earth began at James Madison University in Virginia, where they got their Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Lu has a Master’s degree in Spatial Ecology- the study of how creatures interact across landscapes- from East Carolina University, where they studied rock pools along a river and the critters that dwell in them. Lu is thrilled to be teaching budding scientists about the Earth and why it’s important for us to protect and preserve the environment. 
Lydia
Jenny joined Explore Ecology first as an Environmental Educator, then as a Program Coordinator, and most recently moved into the newly created Programs, People & Culture position. Prior to Explore Ecology Jenny worked in science research and consulting, however her passion has always been science education and outreach. Jenny loves all things related to the ocean, especially free diving, and enjoying the beauty and wonder that is the underwater world. Her greatest life passion is traveling, which she hopes to do more of again soon.
Ian Docktor
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Lindsay Johnson