{"id":946,"date":"2022-07-22T08:06:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.seagrant.w3.uvm.edu\/2022\/07\/22\/new-graduate-assistant-will-study-outcomes-of-watershed-alliance-educational-program\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:49:11","slug":"new-graduate-assistant-will-study-outcomes-of-watershed-alliance-educational-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/2022\/07\/22\/new-graduate-assistant-will-study-outcomes-of-watershed-alliance-educational-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New Graduate Assistant Will Study Outcomes of Watershed Alliance Educational Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMarisa Immordino has joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\">Lake Champlain Sea Grant <\/a>as a Watershed Education Graduate Assistant with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/education\/watershed-alliance\">Watershed Alliance<\/a> K-12 education program. Marisa will work with teachers, partners, and undergraduates from across the Lake Champlain basin to plan and implement place-based educational programs focused on watershed science.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI am excited to begin working with Lake Champlain Sea Grant and cannot wait to explore the basin through my position,\u201d said Marisa.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMarisa is a graduate student at the University of Vermont with Dr. Kris Stepenuck, Associate Director of Lake Champlain Sea Grant. Marisa\u2019s graduate research is tied closely to her work with Watershed Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe are thrilled to have Marisa on board as a graduate student,\u201d said Kris. \u201cHer research will help us to understand long-term outcomes from our Watershed Alliance education program.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMarisa will evaluate the program to learn more about its educational impacts on basin communities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThis research focus is a direct recommendation from the National Sea Grant Office following the Lake Champlain Sea Grant 2019 site review,\u201d said Ashley Eaton, who leads the Watershed Alliance program. \u201cMarisa\u2019s findings will help us to ensure that quality environmental literacy and workforce development efforts in the Lake Champlain basin are being shared more broadly and are contributing to the field of watershed science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOriginally from New Jersey, Marisa earned her B.S. in environmental studies from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. After graduating in 2020, she returned to the Garden State to complete two consecutive terms of service with AmeriCorps as a New Jersey Watershed Ambassador. In this role, she led educational presentations, ran community outreach opportunities, and assessed freshwater streams in the Millstone River Watershed.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI hope to gain a better understanding of environmental education efforts in Vermont,\u201d said Marisa, \u201cand am thrilled to see different perspectives in a new watershed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/education\/watershed-alliance\">Learn more about Lake Champlain Sea Grant&#8217;s Watershed Alliance program.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marisa Immordino has joined Lake Champlain Sea Grant as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}