Mateus Da Costa, Campus Programs Coordinator

Pronouns: he/him/his

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mateus moved to Southwest Florida at a young age where he began exploring the gulf coastal waters with a fishing rod and a thirst for adventure. At 17, he attended Chewonki’s Maine Coast Semester School for high school juniors where he cultivated a passion for ecology, stewardship, and sustainability. While finishing his undergraduate in Environmental Science at Florida Gulf Coast University, Mateus worked as a University Campus Naturalist leading environmental field trips for university students into the sultry swamps and estuaries of Southwest Florida. His enthusiasm for environmental education and connecting with people of all ages in the outdoors has drawn him further and further west, from the rocky coast of Maine to the sagebrush steppes of Wyoming. After completing one-year of leading science-based educational programs for youth in the heart of Grand Teton National Park with Teton Science School’s, he continued his western migration and landed in the rich waters of Puget Sound.