Date: 6/17/2025
Subject: Continuing education opportunities
From: Tuula A Westlake
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
There is still time to earn your CE credits at easy pace (197 days until December 31, 2025).
Wednesday, June 17 at 7 pm, Federal Budget Bill Update Webinar
The Sierra Club Arkansas Chapter, Arkansas Audubon Society, and the Arkansas Citizens First Congress are cosponsoring a short (less than an hour) webinar on June 18 at 7 pm. George Wise, Chair of the Sierra Club Central Arkansas Group, and Lynn Foster, President of the Audubon Arkansas Society, will outline the worst environmental aspects of the bill, detail ways it will hurt Arkansas, and give you talking points you can use to call our Senators and ask them to oppose the bill. We'll give you links to online resources to use for the talking points that will resonate most strongly with our state's officials. No registration is necessary. To join the webinar, click this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83755989678
LEARN WHEN IT IS MOST CONVENIENT
NCAMN Continuing Education Presentations https://arkansasmasternaturalists.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=250502&module_id=523380
Missouri River Observatory: https://www.youtube.com/@moriverbirdobs
Eric Fuselier has videos on a range of topics and you can watch them here: https://www.nature-talks.net/videos.html
Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-being. ournaturepodcast.simplecast.com
Riveted by Raptors: A Look at Migration. From red-tails to broad-wings, kestrels to Cooper’s Hawks, take a lightning-speed tour through the common raptors you might see during autumn raptor migration. Led by our expert teacher Dr. Kevin McGowan, this highlight is a part of our popular webinar “Riveted by Raptors.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmDyEIk0sg&t=561s
Are Monarch Butterflies Really In Trouble? Adam Haritan explains controversies provides documentation along the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQnEcGgCRt0
Ozarks by lidar: 7 neat geologic features. Explore the Ozark landscape as revealed by lidar. With these laser-measured elevation data, we can look beyond vegetation and land use to highlight sinkholes, plateaus, bedrock layering, escarpments, cut-off meanders, lost hills, and some mysterious patterns of natural mounds. Join us on this tour of geologic highlights from southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma; a great way to explore the region when you can't get outdoors!https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JJMrFu2o6Ik
FREE OPEN-SOURCE COURSES
U of A Arkansas Water Sustainability Agriculture, Home and Garden, Research
https://www.uaex.uada.edu/environment-nature/water/sustainability.aspx
U of A Research and Extension Monthly Gardening tips: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82998458572?pwd=KVdmblGKYXbaoxqSV6x71btCbimwrA.1
OpenLearn (Open University): https://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses/full-catalogue
"Introduction to Environmental Science"
"Environmental Challenges"
MIT OpenCourseWare: https://ocw.mit.edu/
"Introduction to Environmental Studies"
"Introduction to Ecology"
YouTube Channels:
"CrashCourse" (offers a series on ecology and environmental science)
"National Geographic" (features a variety of educational videos on nature and conservation)
iNaturalist: "iNaturalist Learning" (provides tutorials on using iNaturalist for species identification and fieldwork)
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "Bird Academy" (offers free online courses and webinars on bird identification and behavior)