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Kartikeya V. Sarabhai is one of the world’s leading environmental educators, and a dedicated community builder – and also an astute and well-regarded industrialist. Sarabhai is the founder and director of India’s Centre for Environment Education, headquartered in Ahmedabad. With 400 professional staff in 40 offices across the country, CEE reaches into every school system in India, in every Indian … Read More

Biography of Alan Latourelle, Brandwein Medal Recipient Over a 13 year period as CEO of Parks Canada , Alan Latourelle oversaw one of Parks Canada’s most significant National Parks expansion in the organization’s century of operations.  Under his leadership, land managed by Parks Canada has increased by 30 percent through the establishment of 10 National Parks or Marine Parks and … Read More

Biography of Jon Jarvis, Brandwein Medal Recipient Jonathan B. Jarvis began his career with the National Park Service in 1976 as a seasonal interpreter in Washington, D.C. Today, he manages that agency whose mission is to preserve America’s most treasured landscapes and cultural icons. Jarvis’s 37-year career has taken him from ranger to resource management specialist to park biologist to … Read More

Dr. Richard Arnold Dick Arnold worked as a student trainee doing soil survey work from 1950 to 1952, then worked full time from 1952 to 1955 before moving to Cornell University as a Soil Technician, where he worked on soil surveys and did graduate work, completing a M.S. in 1959. Dick and his wife Helen moved back to Iowa State … Read More

Nikita (Nik) Lopoukhine Nik started his professional career with the Forestry Canada in 1968 and later moved to the Lands Directorate of Environment Canada. He took a leading role in bringing broad ecological thinking to the Government of Canada in the developing field of land mapping of ecosystems. Nik was behind the creation of ecological maps for some of Canada’s … Read More

Terry Ippolito Teresa (Terry) Ippolito served as U. S. EPA’s Environmental Education Coordinator for New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Terry coordinated EPA’s programming in environmental education (EE) which includes administering the agency’s EE Grants Program in the region. She networked with and supported the efforts of formal and non-formal environmental educators, participated in government … Read More

The Brandwein Medal 2012 Brandwein Medal Recipient Wendy Goldstein Wendy Goldstein is a lecturer in the Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney (2005 to present), where she is program director for the awards in Environmental Education and Sustainable Development. Her interest is in how to engage people and work with them to bring about change for sustainable development. … Read More

2010 Brandwein Medal Recipient Jerry Schierloh Summary of Qualifications Over 40 years experience providing K-12 professional development support in the life, physical, and earth sciences Fourteen (14) years experience correlating K-12 science enrichment curricula with New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Science Standards and indicators Ten (10) years of experience as an environmental science consultant specializing in environmental science outreach and … Read More

Paul F-Brandwein Institute Awards First Brandwein Medal March 31, 2007. David Brown, Fifth-grade teacher, Baldwin Intermediate School-West, Quincy, Illinois, received the first Brandwein Medal at the NSTA Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. David Brown has taught at the elementary level for 18 years. He is the cofounder of the Baldwin Green Team and Teacher Environmental Education Team. He has … Read More