"the mountain and the sea are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." -john lubbock
Meet Our Team
The Salish Sea School is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, and connectedness. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team. We welcome the unique contributions that one can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
We are stronger together with the collective sum of individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent which ultimately brings about a healthier planet.
Click on the pictures below to learn more.
Adventure
Each day includes fun boat-based and local island-based educational adventures throughout the San Juan Islands.
Student participants experience a vast amount of environmental richness as they look at all levels of ecosystem health, from water quality to whales!
Research
Each day includes a different research project requiring active student participation for data collection to help monitor ecosystem health.
This is great exposure to marine scientific inquiry, marine research equipment, survey methodologies, long term data sets, quantitative analysis, field research, and more.
Action
We are so proud to also include discussions and suggestions for personal action steps each student can take to continue improving ecosystem health every day. This includes simple at-home steps or learning about the importance of letter writing to elected officials.