We are seeking volunteers for Nature Escape: Mini-Camp the week of August 21-25, 2023, 9 am-12 pm. Nature Escape strives to engage children in a week full of morning activities, games, and crafts designed to disconnect children from their screens and connect them to nature. Nature Escape: Mini-Camp serves to both bridge the child-aged summer…
We are seeking volunteers for Anne Arundel County’s Nature Escape: Mini-Camp the week of August 22-26, 2022, 9 am-12 pm. Nature Escape strives to engage children in a week full of morning activities, games, and crafts designed to disconnect children from their screens and connect them to nature. Nature Escape: Mini-Camp serves to both bridge…
Join our volunteer team to survey our ten vernal pools throughout the 2022 season, beginning Feb 1 and ending May 30. Volunteers will receive an introduction to vernal pools, water quality monitoring, and our methods for sampling for animal life. Volunteers are expected to commit to visiting our pools once per month for 4-6 hours…
See the attached flyer for information and application details. All applications are due by March 18th, 2022.
Anne Arundel County’s popular child-directed, screen-free nature program is back with a summer twist! Join our amazing group of volunteers to help deliver an affordable nature-immersive camp-like experience that will occur for one week simultaneously across five county parks! Details in the flyer below and also available by contacting Naturalist Liana Vitali at rpvita23@aacounty.org today!
It’s back! We are thrilled to launch the spring edition of our popular new Nature Escape program in our county parks in a few short weeks. We have expanded the program and are seeking volunteers who can commit to helping for the entire eight (8) week program at a park of your choosing. Check out…
Getting spring fever? We have plenty of upcoming opportunities to get you outside in meaningful ways! Join us in the field this spring to support our stewardship and citizen science projects. Learn more at www.jugbay.org today!
Applications Now Open: Four (4) Paid Summer Undergraduate Research Internships at Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary Deadline: March 26th, 2021 Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary is one of ten parks operated by the Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks. It is also one of three sites that comprise the Maryland Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. It…
Park Rangers from across Anne Arundel County have worked together to create Nature Escape, a weekly screen-free outdoor learning and free play experience that aims to provide a safe, creative, and energetic outlet. Each week children will explore a different theme in nature from Animal Homes and Water Worlds, to Geology and Mindfulness in Nature…
*Volunteers now needed for Fort Smallwood Park & Beverly Triton Park* We have received incredible support for our other parks – thank you! ______________________________ Hello! The children of Anne Arundel County (and almost everywhere!) are experiencing extraordinary adaptations to their curriculum platforms for the Fall 2020 school year. Thousands of elementary-aged students will log onto…