Staff Contributors
Joe Sebastiani is the Members Program Team Leader and the administrator of this blog. Joe has worked for the Delaware Nature Society since 1998 and has a degree in Environmental Resource Management and Wildlife Science from Penn State, plus a masters in Education from West Chester University. His other professional jobs were with the Briar Bush Nature Center in Abington, PA and the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center in Grasonville, MD, and he is a native of Kennett Square, PA. He has led natural history trips to Trinidad, Nebraska, the Great Smoky Mountains, and all around the mid-Atlantic. His favorite aspects of work include leading natural history field trips for adults and the Teen Naturalist program.
Joe doing some serious birding.
A native Delawarean, Jim has worked for the Delaware Nature Society for 25 years, currently serving as the Associate Director for Land and Biodiversity Management. He has led natural history field trips to many areas of the East Coast, from Maine to Florida, and has also led extended trips to numerous tropical areas from Costa Rica to Peru. In addition to birds, insects, and nature photography, Jim’s primary interest is herpetology (amphibians and reptiles). He teaches herpetology at the University of Delaware and, along with his wife Amy, co-authored a 250-page field guide, Amphibians and Reptiles of Delmarva (2002: rev.2008).
Jim with a Common Snapping Turtle
Jason Beale has been the Manager of the Abbott’s Mill Nature Center in Milford, Delaware since 2006. He has also worked in Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Massachusetts with various nature centers and outdoor education programs and is a 1999 graduate of Penn State University. Jason enjoys exploring Abbott’s Mill Nature Center and the Milford Millponds Nature Preserve with his wife, Magritte, and daughter Sasha.
Jason and a young American Kestrel
Derek Stoner, Education Program Assistant, began working for the Delaware Nature Society as a Teacher Naturalist while completing his degree in Natural Resource Management at the University of Delaware. He plans and teaches members programs, manages the Middle Run Reforestation Project, coordinates the Young Waterfowlers and Flyfishing courses, and assists with all programs in the education department. Derek is also the current president of the Delmarva Ornithological Society. An avid writer and photographer, his work has appeared in Outdoor Delaware, Wild Delaware, the News Journal, and other regional publications. Derek’s outside interests are just that: being outdoors as much as possible, whether going birding, hunting, fishing, or hiking.
Derek identifying waterfowl for an enthusiastic group of young hunters.
John has other interests besides botany and gardening.
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