Sc3 Coordinators & Contacts
The Sc3 Senior Coordinating Team
Steve Chase
Sc3 Program Coordinator
Chief, Division of Education Outrech
NCTC, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Steve Chase began work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1990, and the National Conservation Training Center in 1993 where he presently serves as the Chief, Division of Education Outreach. Through 2010 was the former Chief Financial Officer and Special Assistant the Director. He oversees budget, financial integrity, FWS history and museum work, and special projects for the NCTC. He has previously worked in educational media, municipal government, as a backcountry guide and caretaker, as a buyer for a ski and mountaineering store, and as a coach and dorm faculty member at the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT. A native of New England, Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication with an Earth Science Minor from the University of Hartford, and a Master of Public Administration from the Barney School of Business and Public Administration. He was selected as a Connecticut Legislative Fellow and a Presidential Management Intern in 1990. He is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming and was the founding Chair of the American Conservation Film Festival in Shepherdstown, WV. Hobbies include paddling, skiing, planning grand backcountry adventures, music, writing, and spending time with his family in the Virginia Piedmont.
Tod Cossairt
Sc3 Program Co-Director - Western Region
Besant Hill School
Ojai, CA
Thelma Flynn
Sc3 Logistical Coordinator & Planning; and The Heart of Sc3
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Eric Estroff
Sc3 Student Program Coordinator
GSA National Student Coordinator
Washington, DC; Atlanta, Georgia
Eric will graduate in 2012 from Pace Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been National Student Coordinator of the Green Schools Alliance since 2009 when he was nominated to the inaugural class of Sc3 Fellows. Eric was a 2010 Joseph A. Piehuta Prize Award winer which he received for outstanding contribution to the Sc3 program and to his school and community. Eric coordinated the Green Cup Challenge in Georgia in 2010 and worked closely as an intern and National Student Coordinator for the green Schools Alliance. He has been featured in Georgia press for his proactive efforts to bring environmental awareness to the forefront in his state. Environmentalist, activist, athlete, scholar and gentleman, we are thrilled to have Eric working on the Sc3 Coordinating Committee as student coordinator. Among other honors, Eric received the Captain Planet Foundation Award in 2011, established by Ted Turner, for his outstanding work with the GSA and contribution to the environment.
Margaret (Peg) Howard Watson
GSA Founder and President; Sc3 Coordinaor
Green Schools Alliance
Green Schools Alliance HQ, NYC
Margaret (Peg) Watson launched the GSA in 2007, in partnership with GSA Charter Members, in order to bring schools together to share their sustainability experience, expertise and best practices as 21st century learning labs for the next generation. An architect, and one of the country's original green building materials experts, Peg was one of 60 national experts invited to participate in the 1993 Greening of the White House Initiative. In 1994, she created GEO: Global Environmental Options through which she developed and implemented Greening initiatives for the National Parks (Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Denali) and the U.S.- Japan NGO Charrette for post-earthquake Kobe. Through GSA, her recent efforts have focused on programs that are building a secure and sustainable future, including the Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3) in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and an Sc3 Global Conservation Corps. Architect, environmentalist, writer, speaker and mother, Margaret has a BA from Smith College, an MArch from Columbia University, and studied at the Institute For Architecture & Urban Studies (IAUS).
Lois Johnson-Mead
RGSA Director of Youth Programs; Sc3 Program Director
The Hill School; GSA
Virginia
Lois is the Director of GSA’s Student Climate & Conservation Congress (Sc3) and Sc3 Corps programs. She combines her love of nature and wild places with a strong commitment to enhancing the scientific and environmental literacy of her students. Whether inside and outside of the classroom, Lois wants her students to gain the skills necessary to help them tackle the challenges of the future. In 2006, Lois, along with several of her colleagues, was invited to the first Children and Nature Conference in Shepherdstown, WV at the National Conservation Training Center. This was a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of an essential movement in our nation and to listen to renowned experts in the field. It is from this initiative that she became involved with the Student Climate and Conservation Congress (Sc3) in June 2009. Prior to working at the Hill School, Lois spent eight years as a lower school science teacher and administrator at the National Cathedral School for Girls in Washington, D.C. She worked hard to sprinkle nature projects into her elementary school program, encouraging walks through Olmstead Woods and bottle rocket launches on campus! From her earliest days in Philadelphia, PA, Lois was exposed a world mixed with outdoor play, reflection, and hours of making mud pies on the lawn! It is because of this rich background, that she has remained committed to sharing her passion and commitment to the natural world with the next generation of eco-stewards. More about Lois >>
Mark Madison
Sc3 Planning, Eduation and Speaker Coordinator
Historian, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
David E. Patnaude, CPE, CPS
Buildings and grounds Expert; Sc3 Planning and Cohort Leader
Diector of Plant and Sustainability, Riverdale Country Day School
Riverdale, New York
David Patnaude is a Certified Plant Engineer and Supervisor with over 25 years of experience in design, construction, strategic & capital planning, campus master planning, facilities engineering & management, building & zoning code administration, real estate management, energy management & efficiency, sustainability and engineering economics. As a graduate architectural-engineer, David has always had a focus on energy efficiency and alternative & renewable energy. With 20 years of experience in educational facilities management and 7 more years in international complex corporate commercial construction for the financial services industry David has seen many of the challenges common to every type of real estate organization and campus. In his current role as the Director of Plant & Sustainability for the Riverdale Country School in the Bronx, NY, David works with his staff, students and faculty on multiple energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainability initiatives that cover topics such as gardening, composting, energy efficiency measures, wind & solar energy, geothermal, lighting efficiency, landscaping and erosion control, and many other issues relating to the physical plant and the Riverdale Country School campus at large.
Jim Siegel
Resident Naturalist; Sc3 Coordinator; Cohort Leader
Biologist, Div of Education Outreach, U.S. FWS, NCTC
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Jim has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in education outreach, wildlife technical training and refuge conservation for 10 years. He is originally from Roslyn, NY about 25 miles east of New York City. He has a bachelor’s in wildlife science from Cornell University, a master’s in wildlife and fisheries sciences from the University of Arizona and a doctorate in ecological anthropology from the University of Georgia. In the Division of Education Outreach, Jim works on training related to recruiting high school and college students into conservation careers, including employment with the Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal agencies. Jim has conducted biological studies of forest and aquatic birds in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington and the Peruvian Amazon. His social science fieldwork includes studies of subsistence hunting in Barrow, Alaska and the management of wetlands and Pacific salmon on the Yakama Reservation in Central Washington. Nearly 20 years ago, Jim served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana supervising the development of a trans-frontier park along the South African border. Jim is currently studying the cultural dimensions of wildlife conservation, including the various ways people in the USA and other nations understand, value and utilize their natural environment and its living resources.
Additional Contact Information:
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
National Conservation Training Center
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, WV 25443-4024
Front Desk (to reach an onsite guest):
304/876-7403 or 304/876-1600
| 
