Join us Wednesday (3/27) at 7:00 pm at Three Magnets Brewing for our March Chapter Meeting to learn how the Port of Olympia is striving to become one of the nation's leading ports in sustainability. Rachael Jamison, the Planning, Public Works & Environmental Director, will discuss the Port's Environmental Programs, which tackle a diverse set of challenges through four strategic areas: Remediation, Restoration & Recreation, Regulatory Compliance, and Sustainability, going above and beyond set standards and regulations. For example, did you know that the Swantown Marina and Boatyard has recently been re-certified as a Clean Marina and a Leadership Clean Boatyard, or that the Port of Olympia’s marine terminal is part of the Green Marine environmental certification program? Join our discussion of all the ways our port addresses environmental challenges while continuing to provide economic benefits to the citizens of Thurston County.
A Florida native, Liz started her career as a marine biologist, working with sea turtles and commercial fisheries in the Florida Keys and spending her vacation time teaching at Duke University's marine science summer camp. While completing her master's degree in Sustainable Development & Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland, she taught sustainability to undergraduate students while also volunteering as a docent at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s Ocean Hall and leading overnight camps at the National Zoo. After graduating, she got hitched and moved out west, where she’s spent several years studying salmon and streams and trying to embrace this thing called elevation. She learned about Surfrider’s programs and campaigns as the Olympia Chapter’s Volunteer Coordinator before being hired on as the Washington Regional Manager. When she’s not supporting our five Washington chapters and three BC chapters in their amazing work, she likes to run on trails, bike around volcanoes, freedive, play frisbee, read in the sun with her chickens, play guitar when no one's around, and make maps. Liz has a special fondness for swamps, cypress trees, and thunderstorms, is recreationally obsessed with ocean sunfish, and will shamelessly eat any unattended leftovers.