Sarah Marcus
ECO Program Director/Educator
631-852-8629
Sarah Marcus has been working at Peconic Dunes 4-H Camp since 2007, first as a cabin counselor and then as the ECO Program Director. During that time, Sarah also earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Conservation Biology from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse New York.
Sarah’s passion for the outdoors has motivated her to seek adventures all around the world. Her first wilderness survival experience, in the summer of 2004, was when she spent six weeks hiking the most rugged mountain and desert trails in Israel. Three straight days and nights in the Negev Desert, with no shelter and rationed food, was the most exhilarating and profound experience of her life. The enchantment Sarah felt for the outdoors quickly developed into an interest in biology and conservation. In 2007, just weeks before arriving at Peconic Dunes for the first time, Sarah spent three weeks at Cranberry Lake Biological station where she completed a research project on the abundance of native and non-native fish species in Cranberry Lake. Sarah continued her research on freshwater fish the following year when she spent ten days on the island of Dominica, researching community structure of freshwater fish. Her next adventure was in New Zealand, where Sarah spent a month exploring their wilderness and studying natural resource management.
Sarah is thrilled to be working full time for CCE, helping to create year-round environmental education programming at Peconic Dunes 4-H Camp.
