Grayling Education

🚨About one week left to apply to YVoS!🚨 Apply by using the link in our bio - looking forward to seeing your applications! 📃 #science #sciencecommunication #scicomm

Hope everyone’s enjoying the new year so far! I’m certainly excited to share upcoming events and workshops with you all🤗 If you’ve been wanting to start a new hobby and are interested in trying out wildlife photography or fly fishing, this is your chance! Registration’s through @oregonmetro or on our website and are🥁….FREE to attend. If you’re a returned or have joined on a fly fishing workshop before, we’re introducing a part 2 - Beyond the Basics, to amp up your skills and continue your learning journey! ✨Just sign-up and please be mindful if you’re unable to attend and let us know so we can make space for others there’s typically a waitlist!✨

👀📄Applications opening soon 📄👀 🗓️Mark your calendars! January 16th

Our last group outing was reserved for students from our 6-week long Introduction to Nature and Wildlife Photography Class taught at Portland Community College - Community Education!📸 A few of us braved the early and brisk morning and met over 600 Sandhills cranes a few hundred snow geese, a bold kestrel, a vocal red-tailed hawk, and a lucky encounter with a bald eagle at Frenchman’s Bar in Vancouver, WA. Students got to put their skills to practice on thousands of subjects and beautiful landscape scenery. One of our favorite ways to connect people to wildlife and nature is through photography! We spent time talking about wildlife behavior and how to use our observation and senses to set up our cameras for “the shot,” conservation and wildlife-human coexistence through the work done by @columbialandtrust , and the importance of urban areas green spaces and inner-city recreation to propel conservation. This was by far one of our favorite outings this year and we’re so grateful to end the 2025 season with some raucous dinosaur-esque Sandhills cranes. Photos from students coming soon! A big thank you to @kylecarnesphoto for joining us on the outing and providing insight and technical help!

📸 Here is a snapshot of our Fall 2025 “From Identity to Impact: Embracing & Maintaining Authenticity in Science Communication” Workshop! In this workshop, Anna Le shares her insights on how to hold on to who you are through your science journey. Who do you think was our next expert presenter?👀 🔎 Stay tuned for clues! #science #scicomm #sciencecommunication

🍂And just like that, we wrapped up our events and workshops for the 2025 year! We’ve been quiet over here trying to balance life, taking care of ourselves and showing up as best as we could while thinking about the impact we have in this crazy and hectic world. You all know how it is! Over the last several months, the classroom looks incredibly diverse with being invited as a guest presenter for early-career professionals and students at @portlandstate campus and virtually with @youngvoicesofscience . 🛶Ever tried canoeing, kayaking, and paddling and using that as a classroom? Well, we did with @columbiaslough and was invited to talk about salmon ecology! At our class at Portland Community College, we invited @kylecarnesphoto to be a guest instructor and the students were stoked to leave with plenty of information. Alongside some incredible collaborations and partnerships, we met some enthusiastic people in our workshops with @oregonmetro that learned fly fishing basics, tree identification tips and tricks, and explored wildlife photography at some local urban parks🌲 It’s been a really fulfilling, heartfelt, and tiring last few months, but I’m so grateful to be able to co-host and host outings and provide opportunities to connect and learn AND continue learning from others myself.

We had the opportunity to be the guest speaker for @columbiaslough September’s Slough Science: Salmon the Slough event! A gorgeous day for a paddling event along the Columbia slough with over 20 engaged and curious attendees, incredible staff and volunteers from the Columbia Slough Watershed Council, and Anna Le of Grayling Education. The group was greeted with river otters somersaulting in the water, a great blue heron, a chattering kingfisher, a group of white pelicans, and plenty of unseen fishes swimming lurking below our kayaks, canoes, and paddle boards! A discussion about the history and present day solutions of urban waterways, highlighting crucial salmon habitat and the effects of restoration attempts, and talking about the adversities migrating salmon face when returning to natal spawning grounds made for a wonderful learning event. It also helps that the classroom is on the water and our desks were various water crafts😉 For future events and offerings, stay updated at graylingeducation.com/workshops and please visit and follow along the Columbia Slough Watershed Council with volunteer and educational outings!🐟

Thank you to those who came out for our Catch Fish, Not Feelings Introduction to Fly Fishing workshop at the Refuge Outdoors Festival in Carnation, WA!🐟 It’s was a hot weekend filled with beautiful smiley faces, people radiating joy at the different events at the Tolt McDonald Campground, and many vendors and unique individuals gathered celebrating, highlighting, and creating spaces of the BIPOC community in the outdoors! A big thank you to our co-instructor @theflyfishingfilmmaker for joining us for Grayling Education’s second-year at the festival! We hope you had fun and can’t wait to see you again next year! Photo credit: Mark Steudel

📑 Apply to our FREE Science Communication Program.📑 Our Young Voices of Science Fall Application closes on Friday, September 5th. Please spread the works with your networks. @youngvoicesofscience ✨What: FREE science communication training and real-world practice for science scholars! ✨Who: Graduate, undergraduate students and early-career scientists in environmental (or similar) fields are eligible to apply ✨When: Series of eight Zoom workshops held on Thursdays, September 25th through November 13th, 6:00 - 7:30 pm ET ✨Where: Wherever you are, via Zoom! Application Form: https://forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9kv9G9 🔗(Link in bio) No need to be a student to apply! #science #scicomm #sciencecommunication

If you’re wondering what we’ve been up to, your girl was busy getting the degree! While building and running Grayling Education, educating and hosting the many workshops over the last two years, I was also balancing being a full-time graduate student. I’ve officially have a M.S. in Science Education from Montana State University! From broadening my experience as an ecologist, incorporating my skill sets as an informal educator, and gaining more formal knowledge of curriculum building, instructional designs, assessments, and standards, it’s been a journey of growth that could only help me introduce more programming and workshops that are conducive to learning about conservation and science! There’s lots more to say, but for now, I’m excited, inspired, and grateful to see how Grayling Education shows up and the people I’ll meet and get to educate along the way😊 Thanks for being patient while we continue to increase capacity and offerings and for the support! Photo credit: @kylecarnesphoto

Everybody…..We’re back!🥳 After a hectic few months with lots of exciting updates, we’re excited to share events and workshops that you can join us at for Fall of 2025 and most likely, the remainder of the year! We’re bringing some our beloved Intro to Fly Fishing courses back, added more wildlife photography, partnering up for a paddle on the Columbia slough, and are now teaching community education courses at Portland Community College. Thank you to the collaboration between community partners for holding space and providing resources on making these workshops happen! You can register now at the link in bio, visiting graylingeducation.com/workshops, and signing up for our monthly newsletter🐟

Win Redington gear by showing what goes into your EDC river kit. Here, biologist, educator and Redington pal, Anna Le shares what goes into her EDC. Sign up at the link in bio. #flyfishingedc