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Faculty & Staff Profile

Laura Bell

Lab Services Coordinator
Agriculture and Natural Resources Department
210-A
Owen Hall
(218) 281-8131

Responsibilities

  • Assist department faculty and instructors with classes and labs

  • Assistant curator of Natural Resource Wildlife Museum

  • Environmental Education and Outreach coordinator

  • Maintain and coordinate Red River Valley Natural History Area

  • Maintain UMC Nature Nook

  • RiverWatch liaison

  • Supervise Natural Resource work study students

Associated Majors

Research Interests

  • Leopold Education Project

  • MN Master Naturalist

  • Monarch Larva Monitoring Program

  • Monarch Watch

  • Project Learning Tree

  • Project WET

  • Project WILD

Awards, Distinctions, and Honors

Educational Background

  • BS Wildlife Zoology

Certifications

  • American Red Cross FA/CPR Instructor

  • American Wilderness Leadership School

  • Leopold Education Project Educator

  • Licensed Chemical Applicator

  • Project Learning Tree Facilitator

  • Project Wet Facilitator

  • Project Wild Facilitator

  • S130/190 Wildland Fire Training

University Committee Memberships

  • MN Master Naturalist Instructor

In the News

MAPS Station captures, bands breeding birds
July 25, 2019
Local efforts are part of a much wider effort assisting with the conservation of birds and their habitats through demographic monitoring.