Happy Retirement to Britt Slattery!

From 1986 to 2025, Britt has served as a biologist and educator across many agencies and organizations, including NPS Chesapeake Gateways.

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Britt Slattery, an honored NPS Chesapeake Gateways staff member, has retired after serving a nearly 40-year career as a leader, practitioner, and champion of stewardship, environmental education, outreach, and habitat restoration and conservation of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.

From 1986 to 2025, Britt has served as a biologist and educator across many agencies and organizations, contributing her passion and expertise across federal, regional and state levels. She has authored and illustrated a variety of instructional guides, trained thousands of educators, and promoted the use of native plants through hands-on planting projects and popular publications.

Britt Slattery has been with the National Park Service Chesapeake Gateways office since early 2021 as the Coordinator for the Fostering Chesapeake Stewardship Goal Implementation Team under the Chesapeake Bay Program. She organized, coordinated, and facilitated collaboration within and among the goal team workgroups, including the Stewardship, Environmental Literacy, Public Access and Protected Lands, and workforce development workgroups.

Prior to NPS, Britt served as the Director of Conservation Education and Stewardship with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, spending a decade advancing environmental literacy and promoting outdoor learning, discovery, and stewardship. Britt coordinated and served across many programs, workgroups, and initiatives, such as the Aquatic Resources Education program, the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve’s education program, “Explore and Restore Maryland Streams,” and the Maryland Project Green Classrooms Initiative.

Britt also served as the Associate Director for the National Audubon Society in Maryland-DC, after a few years as senior conservation biologist working on large scale habitat restoration and the Audubon At Home program focused on native plant gardening to benefit birds and butterflies. Her 15 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found her at the Chesapeake Bay Field Office as Supervisor of the Education and Outreach Program (which included the Schoolyard Habitat and BayScapes Programs) and at what is now the National Conservation Training Center, where she developed national education programs and policy, and conducted training in environmental education. Britt has also been Assistant Director of Education at the wetlands consulting firm Environmental Concern Inc.; an education specialist at the National Aquarium in Baltimore; and early on, she enjoyed getting wet and muddy, using her roots in biology as a naturalist at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History.

As a lifelong Marylander, native plant enthusiast, and proud “bio-geek,” Britt will continue to be guided by her awe of and connection with the natural wonders and beauty found throughout the Chesapeake as she embarks on this next chapter.

Please join all of us in wishing her well in her retirement!