Dr. Michaela Zint
Associate Professor of
Environmental Education and Communication
School of Natural Resources & Environment
University of Michigan

Consistent with the ultimate goal of environmental education, Professor Zint's research and teaching addresses the question of how environmental educators and communicators can foster environmentally responsible behaviors. Her efforts therefore focus on relevant human behavior models. Professor Zint also has a special interest in (Great Lakes) fisheries/aquatic education, enviromental risk education, and evaluation.

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."

-Thomas Jefferson in a letter to W.C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820