This is the second offering in Middletown Meeting’s Learning to Live in a Changing Climate series.
This on-going series is directed to individuals, students, households, clubs, and organizations that will benefit from specialists in their field offering hands-on, helpful suggestions that can be implemented by all. Despite increasing coverage of climate change in the news, the level of useful every-day knowledge is very uneven. Globally and nationally, we learn of fires, floods, rising temperature, and destruction of our natural environment. In comparison, the need for methods individuals can utilize are not readily available.
This month, Faith Zerbe, Director of Monitoring, Delaware Riverkeeper Network will be speaking about the Delaware River Watershed.
Faith Zerbe is a biologist who resides in the Darby Creek Watershed in Delaware County, PA. She has worked in various sectors of the environmental field including environmental consulting, the U.S. Forest Service, and the private non-profit sector. Faith joined Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) in 1999 and is responsible for developing and maintaining DRN’s monitoring program built around community science to help support DRN advocacy, legal, and stewardship efforts. She has provided testimony and scientific reports on issues and actions affecting the Delaware River Watershed with data to strengthen DRN’s position to challenge polluter threats and regulatory changes when they arise, and engaged citizens and local watershed groups to be vigilant watchdogs of their local streams and habitats.
Faith has a B.S. in Biology from Ursinus College and studied abroad in Queensland, Australia through the School for Field Studies where she helps document amphibian declines in the rainforest. She participated in the Student Conservation Corps program which took her to the western Sierra Nevada’s of California to follow and classify streams to their headwaters and document harm of cattle ranching in remote wetlands and stream habitats.
She spends her free time enjoying and communing with the outdoors and encouraging others to do the same. She is an avid gardener of native plants and in her free time, she loves to hike, kayak, camp, and backpack.