VRUEC Members

Officers

• Chair: Beth Beran
• Vice-chair: Sarah McGuire Nuss
• Secretary: Stephanie DeNicola-Turner
• Co-Treasurer: Ann Regn
• Co-Treasurer: Suzie Gilley
• Membership: Dr. Denny Casey

Agencies and Contacts

• Chesapeake Bay Foundation (non-profit): Bill Portlock, Cindy Duncan
• Claytor Nature Study Center, Lynchburg College: Dr. Greg Eaton, Danielle Racke
• Clean Waterways of Virginia (non-profit): Katie Register
• Dan River Basin Association (non-profit): Krista Hodges, Amy Farinelli
• Longwood University: Sherry Swinson
• Mary Baldwin College: Dr. Tamra Willis
• National Park Service/Shenandoah National Park: Tim Taglauer
• NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office: Andrew Larkin
• Science Museum of Virginia: Dr. R. Eugene Maurakis
• State Arboretum of Virginia and Blandy Experimental Farm: Dr. Candace Lutzow-Felling
• Virginia Academy of Science (non-profit): Richard Groover
• Virginia Association of Science Teachers: Susan Booth
• Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts: Beth Beran, Stephanie DeNicola-Turner
• Virginia Commonwealth University: Dr. Anne Wright
• Virginia Cooperative Extension: Beth Hawse, Sam Fisher
• Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation: Christen Miller (nominated)
• Virginia Department of Education: Dr. Anne Petersen
• Virginia Department of Environmental Quality: Ann Regn, Virginia Witmer
• Virginia Department of Forestry: Ellen Powell; Page Hutchinson
• Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries: Suzie Gilley, Carol Heiser
• Virginia Department of Historic Resources: Dee DeRoche
• Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Sarah McGuire Nuss, Dr. Carol Hopper Brill
• Virginia Master Naturalist Program, Virginia Tech: Michelle Prysby

Virginia Interagency Education Workgroup (VIEW)

VIEW is a subcommittee of the VRUEC. VIEW members are tasked with coordinating Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Education Implementation Plan, including Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE). In addition to VRUEC members, VIEW includes representatives from:

• Virginia Science Educational Leadership Association
• Virginia Association of Science Teachers
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation
• Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom
• Representative teachers

Meeting Minutes and Agency Reports

• February 2016 (PDF)
• October 2015 (PDF)
• May 2015 (PDF)
• May 2014 (PDF)
• January 2014 (PDF)
• June 2013 (PDF)
• January 2013 (PDF)
• May 2012 (PDF)
• December 2011 (PDF)
• January 2011 (PDF)

Past Council projects

To support the Virginia Naturally education initiative, the council in 2000 adopted the following resolution:

Resolution

Whereas:

The Virginia Resource-Use Education Council (VRUEC) was established in 1952 to promote a better understanding of conservation education throughout the Commonwealth; and

Whereas:

The VRUEC has a long standing record of coordinating the educational efforts of Virginia's resource agencies and educational institutions on behalf of the Commonwealth citizens; and

Whereas:

The VRUEC since 1955 has produced educational resources to inform Virginians of the importance of our Natural Resources; and

Whereas:

The VRUEC subscribes to the following principles:

• That the natural resources of the state and nation should be used wisely and with due consideration for the future;
• That the wise use of these resources should be the concern of government at the local, state, and national levels;
• That all people benefit from the natural resources of the state and nation: hence, they have citizenship responsibility in the safeguarding and judicious utilization of these resources; and,
• That all citizens, public or private groups, charged with the management of natural resources or education or both, have added responsibilities in promoting understanding of conservation needs problems and ways to resolve them.

Whereas:

The Honorable Governor James S. Gilmore asked the VRUEC to:

• Coordinate the development and consistent delivery of environmental education programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia by linking current environmental education efforts to creative, innovative approaches;
• Nurture and promote alternative methods of reaching and educating our citizens from all sectors of the public; and,
• Promote sustained life-long learning and professional development based on Virginia's academic standards.

Let it be resolved that: The VRUEC fully supports and will spearhead Governor Gilmore's Virginia Naturally 2000 Initiative on this date, January 31, 2000.

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