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Jocelyn Hubbell is Executive Director of Cornerstones of Science.
She holds a B.S. in Environmental Interpretation from Colorado State
University, 1983. While working as an interpretive naturalist and
law enforcement ranger for the City of Boulder Open Space Department
she helped to research the bats, bears, and wildcats of Colorado
and developed the Mountain Lion on the Mall lion awareness
program. She served as the Education and Outreach
Specialist and brought science to the citizens through hands-on
educational programming that highlighted on-going research projects
on Open Space lands. Jocelyn also served on the Board of Directors
of the Boulder County Audubon Society and as Executive Director
of the Colorado Bat Society.
In 1996 Jocelyn left Colorado for NYC where she became the Wildlife
Conservation Society's Senior Educator at Prospect Park Wildlife
Center. Here she assisted in the development of the Brooklyn Cultural
Adventures Program for youth, a cooperative effort of the Wildlife
Center, the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn Library, and Brooklyn
Parks & Recreation Department. She developed and taught the
Young Naturalists program, designed and presented the curriculum
for NYC's 1998 Envirothon, developed and presented teacher trainings,
school and public programs, managed the education staff and care
of thirty-one education animals. Jocelyn also contracted with the
American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity, helping
to produce an environmental education manual for educators in the
tropics: Biodiversity Education at Interpretive Centers,
and taught environmental programs for Brooklyn College and the Brooklyn
Center for Cultural Exchange.
In the autumn of 1998 Jocelyn moved to Maine to return to her New
England roots and spend more time with her parents. From 1998 to
2002 she was Maine Audubon's Camps and Outreach Program Manager.
She also wrote her first children's book Know-It-Alls Frogs!
Jocelyn continues her wildlife work as a volunteer for The Lobster
Conservancy by monitoring juvenile lobsters in Harpswell. She also
is a volunteer for the Cumberland County Extension Service.
Jocelyn joined Curtis Memorial Library and Cornerstones of
Science in November of 2002.
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