Dustin Angell, B.A.
Director of Education
Dustin Angell is an environmental educator and conservation photographer living and working in the headwaters of Florida's Everglades. As the Program Director of Education at Archbold Biological Station in Venus, FL, he builds community relationships and interprets ecological research for audiences of all ages. Dustin holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Alfred University. Dustin’s photography, which highlights science and environmental stewardship, has been published nationally locally, regionally, and nationally; a recent collaboration with The Wild Center, in New York State, resulted in a permanent Climate Change Solutions exhibit. Dustin is the two-time former President of the League of Environmental Educators in Florida (LEEF), winner of LEEF's Golden LEEF Award for contributions to EE across the state, and a recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award from the Florida Chapter of the Wildlife Society.
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Dustin is available as a speaker on request. Below are some presentations you can request.
- Archbold Biological Station: Ecology and Conservation in Florida: Program Director of Education, Dustin Angell will give an overview of Archbold Biological Station, an independent field station dedicated to ecological research, conservation, and education in the Headwaters of the Florida Everglades. Dustin will give a broad overview of Archbold's work, focus on the Florida Wildlife Corridor, and the conservation value of ranches and military lands.
- Florida Scrub Life: Archbold Biological Station and the Lake Wales: Director of Education, Dustin Angell will present a slide show on Archbold Biological Station's research and management of the rare Florida scrub habitat found on the Lake Wales Ridge. Dustin will give an overview of the ridge geology and scrub ecology, and then focus on plants, highlighting both rare plants fighting to survive and common plants with extraordinary stories.
- Wild Visions: A picture is worth a thousand words, but do different art styles tell different kinds of stories? Is there more than one-way of envisioning wildlife? Are some more accurate than others? Can art represent objective truth? Photographer and environmental educator, Dustin Angell will investigate these questions by looking at three kinds of art depicting wildlife. These include scientific species illustrations, like in animal identification books; photographs of wildlife, like Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark; and traditional abstract art, like in Native American and Celtic art.
- Plants & People: Ethnobotany in the Headwaters of the Florida Everglades: Plants help humans survive and thrive in Florida, and have done so for millennia. In this talk, participants will learn the stories of a dozen culturally important Florida plants. We will focus on plants in forestry and agriculture; in medicine, food, and poison; and in legends and history.
- Florida Stewards: Photographer and environmental educator, Dustin Angell will present photos from his Florida Stewards photo project. For 10 years, Dustin's environmental portraits have documented and celebrated field biologists and others working in conservation within the Headwaters of the Florida Everglades. He will discuss his inspirations and motivations, and how the project evolved to include portraits of children dressed as scientists.
- Artists at Field Stations: Headwaters of the Everglades and Beyond: Field stations are sites of long-term site-based ecological research. But they are also increasingly sites of art-science collaborations. In this talk, Program Director of Education, Dustin Angell presents examples of artwork made by artists at Archbold Biological Station. This art includes sculpture, photography, mixed-media, and more. Learn about how field station art can communicate science in new ways, promote conservation, and engage youth in science careers.