Educator Awarded Aquatic Biology Grant

Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund of the Douglas County Community Foundation has announced an award of $1,810 for Dawn Kirchner, museum educator at the KU Natural History Museum. The grant will help expand a museum summer camp in aquatic biology. The grant is one of few offered by the fund. Camp participants will learn about healthy aquatic ecosystems, the life they sustain and how to monitor water quality using new museum equipment at the Baker Wetlands and Deer Creek.