Community Create Night: Aquaponics
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Eden Hall Campus
Cost: Adults: $10; Students with ID: $5
Design your own low-cost system to grow fish and plants together.
During this second session, learn the basic biology, chemistry and engineering behind aquaponics systems. Experiment with “raft bed” systems by building a swirl filter and testing different system materials. Community expert Colleen Beck of Seed Aquaponics will discuss her experience with building aquaponics systems internationally and the importance of choosing materials that work for a local context. A tour of Eden Hall’s Aquaculture lab is also included in this session. Although content is different from this session to the last, attendance at both is not required. Coming to both gives you more time to work on your system and gives you more access to the experts!
Come to Chatham’s Eden Hall Campus for a night of creativity with your community. Experts from Chatham and from the community teach you both the technical aspects and the social context behind topical sustainability projects around food, ecology and energy. Then, we provide materials for you to be creative and experiment with your new knowledge. This event is intergenerational, and open for all ages. Materials will not be sent home with participants unless otherwise noted.
Meet your instructors!
Colleen Beck has thirteen years of experience in communications, education, and international development in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. As founder and CEO of Seed Aquaponics, LLC she strives to implement sustainable aquaponic systems worldwide while offering study abroad opportunities to the public and universities. As an education program associate and trainer, she coordinated and presented at hundreds of university events yearly and published educational newsletters quarterly for over 30,000 educators. She researched water innovation techniques within agriculture through the United Nation Africa Office in Kenya and continues to develop and evaluate methodologies for capacity building in development assistance. Colleen is also proficient in Mandarin from her studies at Sichuan University in China.
Dr. Weitzell is the Aquatic Laboratory Director in the Falk School of Sustainability, where he coordinates operation of the School’s recirculating aquaculture systems, culturing fish and other aquatic organisms in support of teaching and research within Chatham’s Sustainability and Food Studies programs. Weitzell joins Chatham from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he helped run the Healthy Watersheds Program, working with state and tribal stakeholders to identify and protect networks of healthy watersheds and green infrastructure across the United States. His current research focuses on physical alterations to headwater streams during watershed urbanization, and the associated impacts to aquatic biodiversity at multiple scales. Dr. Weitzell earned his Ph.D. from The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
Recommended for ages 12+
Registration
Fee : Adults: $10; Students with ID: $5Registration has closed. Please contact Kelly Henderson at khenderson@chatham.edu for additional information.