Partner Programs
Combine the Marine Ecology Program with a camp program run by Fieldguides, The Marine Mammal Center's Ocean Ambassadors Program or LiMPETS! See below for more details on each program
Overnight Camping with Fieldguides
Fieldguides Outdoor Education offer fun, educational wilderness emersion experiences for schools and youth groups.
Do the Marine Ecology Program as part of a Fieldguides Camping program!
Fieldguides at Fort Ross Brochure
New camping program for the Marine Ecology Program
The Marine Eoclogy Program is partnering with FIELDGUIDES to provide an amazing new opportunity to camp by the Fort after a program!
After a day of fun learning about the coast with Fort Ross Conservancy's experts, enjoy a night of family-style camping with Fieldguides! Feildguides are equipped with the gear your group needs for overnight camping including tents and eventing activities
Price: $100 per student, $25 per chaperone
For more information and to book, visit https://www.fieldguides.org/fort-ross.html
Ocean Ambassadors, The Marine Mammal Center
Ocean Ambassadors is an award-winning marine science program that provides middle schoolers with the opportunity to learn about marine mammals in an immersive, interactive learning experience.
This program includes curriculum connected to Next Generation Science Standard and funded field trips to The Marine Mammal Center hospital in Sausilito and to a field site such as Fort Ross to see marine mammals in the wild!
Every year we receieve a number of schools through this incredible program and can't recommend it enough! At Fort Ross, we see grey whales, humback whales, california sea lions, steller sea lions, harbor seals, and on very special occaisions, orcas, northern fur seals and elephant seals. This is a fantastic way for students to learn about marine life, see how marine mammals are impacted by human activities, and to learn how to help them.
Photo: Nursing Steller Sea Lions at Fort Ross, Susan Zerwick
LiMPETS
LiMPETS stands for Long-term Monitoring Program and Experiential Training for Students. It is an incredible community science field program to increase awareness and stewardship of coastal ecosystems.
This program has two curricula on Rocky Intertidal Monitoring and Sandy Beach Monitoring that is geared towards middle and high schoolers. Each curricula includes teacher training, an in-class lesson and a field trip followed by data entry. At Fort Ross we are currently offering the Sandy Meach Monitoring curriculum and are being trained in the rocky intertidal monitoring program to start running programs in Spring 2025.
See activities for additional information on Sandy Beach Monitoring wheres students survey and measure mole crabs!