Inspired by her family’s lifelong affinity for the outdoors, Betty Elings Wells H’10 has made a pair of gifts to campus that support environmental education, and the environment itself.

“The Golden Forest” is a new children’s book by Carole Blanchette and Jenny Dugan, UC Santa Barbara marine biologists for the schoolyard program of the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network.

A teaspoon of seawater holds more than 1 million microbes, here stained with fluorescent dye.