Education Forum
24-28 Jul 99 UCSB/NCEAS, Santa Barbara
Organizations:
Palmer LTER
LTER
NCEAS
Goleta Junior High
SB Natural History Museum
SB Sea Center
SD Stephen Birch Aquarium
NSF TEA Program
SB Outdoors
SB Rain Community Network
Karen S. Baker (MS Physics) has worked in bio-optical oceanographic research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego for more than 20 years. Her work includes the study of light, physics & biology, remote sensing and data management in marine environments. She began work in 1991 with the Palmer LTER located off the West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. As the Palmer LTER data manager, the relationship between information management and education has been highlighted in conjunction with the Network LTER in-reach/out-reach concepts. She participated in the LTER Education Workshop at the Biosphere in 1998.
Scott Bell (Ph.D. candidate in Geography with advisor Reg Golledge) has a research focus on Behavioral Geography. His dissertation title is "Children's Comprehension of Spatial Location in Different Size Spaces". He is a National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis fellow and oversees the "Kids do Ecology" program.
Candyce Brown (Ph.D. candidate with advisor Gregory Kelly) has worked on a study with two classrooms conducting year-long weather projects.
Bruce Caron works with Palnet Earth Science and Catharine Gautier at ICESS/UCSB.
Sheila Coshman is the Director of Education at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum.
Besse Dawson (MS Biology) is a teacher at Pearland High School (Houston, Texas) teaching Biology and Aquatic Science. She taught junior high from 1969 until 1993 when she became department chair at the high school. She is active in a variety of loca and national teacher training and mentorship programs with an interest in inquiry-based science and Antarctic studies. She was selected as a National Science Foundation Teacher Experiencing Antarctica obtaining field experience in January 1998 and was selected as Curriculum Design Team Leader for NSF grant GLACIER in 1996 and 1998.
Ray Ford is a recently retired teacher whose primary focus has been on management of network and technology services at Goleta Valley Junior High School for the past five years. Ray is also a well-know outdoor writer in the Santa Barbara area and has been writing guides for the area the past twenty-five years (day hikes, mountain bike rides, beach walks, etc.). It is this writing which initially interested him in the use of computers and specifically the web. Currently, Ray is working with a local programmer to create web portals for interactive classroom use, including database activities centered on weather and creek monitoring as well as oak habitat studies (Santa Barbara-OutDoors and Exploring the CA Backcountry).
Fiona Goodchild is education outreach coordinator at UCSB working with research/classroom education programs such as Science Parnerships for School Education (SPS), Quantized Electronic Structures (QUEST) and MRL (Material Research Laboratory).
Kelli Hagen is science department chair at San Marco High School and works with Ken Uchio. She is also a UCSB Education Graduate Student.
Gregory Kelly (BA Physics; Phd Education) is a faculty member at University of California Santa Barbara. His research areas and interests in science education include philosophy and sociology of science; qualitative research methodology. After receiving an undergraduate degree in physics and working as a teacher, he received my MS and PhD degrees in the field of education at Cornell University. He is concerned with the role of scientific knowledge in society and the societies that create scientific knowledge. Many of the issues in his current research emanate from my experiences learning, teaching, and researching science as practiced in schools. Kelly began his full-time career in education as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa teaching physics and chemistry in a rural high school. Current research interests include the use of philosophy and sociology of science in teaching and researching science in schools; equity of access to science; and classroom interaction. Some of the course I teach include those oriented to researching science education.
Andrea Moe is an Education representative at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum.
Langdon Quetin (PhD) is a Palmer LTER co-principal investigator at UCSB co-leading the krill component.
Dawn S. Rawls (BS Physics, Philosophy) specializes in informal-science writing at the Birch Aquarium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. She was a member of the design team and label-writer for Birch's "Exploring the Blue Planet," the nation's only museum solely devoted to oeanographic science. Her twenty years at Scripps have centered on public outreach stressing communication of scientific concepts and research. Dawn has served in many capacities with the Girl Scouts, including membership on the Board of Directors for the San Diego/Imperial County, and participated in the LTER Education Workshop at the Biosphere in 1998.
Robin Ross (PhD) is a Palmer LTER co-principal investigator at UCSB co-leading the krill component.
Eric Solomon, having recently received his degree from UCSB, is currently the Assistant Director of Education and Manager of the Santa Barbara Sea Center.
Sharon Stammerjohn (MS Geography, UCSB) completed her Master's Thesis "Spatial and Temporal Variability in Southern Ocean Sea Ice Coverage" in 1993 as a student of Ray Smith. She continues reseach associated with the UCSB bio-optics component of the Palmer Long Term Ecological Program with a focus on Antarctic arena using satellite imagery.
Raymond Smith/B> (PhD) is lead principal investigator of the Palmer LTER Project and leads the bio-optics component of the LTER focusing on bio-optical oceanography and remote sensing.
Mimi Wallace (BS Biology, Physical Education) is a high school teacher since 1994 teaching Biology in an integrated program. She is currently department chair for the Synergy Department at Montwood High School (El Paso, Texas) having begun teaching life science in junior high in 1987. She is active in current educational developments through participation in national programs such the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in 1998, the NASA Education Workshop for Math and Science Teachers at Stennis Space Center in 1997, and the TERC workshop in 1995. She was selected as a National Science Foundation Teacher Experiencing Antarctica participant in 1999.
Will Winn has taught science at Goleta Valley Junior High for 33 years. He presently teaches eighth grade science which includes half a year of physical science and half a year of life science. The curriculum will be changing so that it is in alignment with the State Standards within the next two years. He is well versed in the local flora, fauna and geology of the Santa Barbara area. Students are taken on field trips each year to the beach and down one of the local streams to study the natural history of the area.