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NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar Series, Fall 2008 |
Presenters:
Jessica Fries-Gaither
Jessica Fries-Gaither is an Elementary Resource Specialist with The Ohio State University.
Currently she is working on a free multimedia cyberzine called Beyond Penguins and
Polar Bears. This online magazine will integrate polar science, literacy skills,
and other cross-curricular content for elementary educators. Fries-Gaither earned
bachelor’s degrees in Biological Sciences and Anthropology and a master’s of Education
from the University of Notre Dame. She has had a variety of teaching experiences
including middle school science and math, upper elementary science and math, and
elementary (self-contained) classrooms. Most recently, she taught fourth grade in
Anchorage, Alaska, where she lived for six years.
Fries-Gaither is a member of the National Science Teacher’s Association (NSTA) and
has traveled to Japan with the Fulbright Memorial Fund and to South Africa and Botswana
with the Fulbright Hays program. She enjoys learning and teaching about the world’s
diversity in its scientific and cultural forms.
Dr. Carol Landis
Dr. Carol Landis completed her Ph.D. in Science Education at The Ohio State University
in 1995. She also holds an MA (Biology Ed.) from Kent State and a B.S. (Biology
Education) from the University of Wisconsin--Superior. She taught biology and Earth
science for 17 years in NE Ohio before entering the Ph.D. program at OSU. Upon completing
her Ph.D., she served as a visiting assistant professor in the Math, Science, and
Technology (MSaT) faculty in the College of Education at OSU. She taught Science
in the School Curriculum, Teaching Science in the Field, and Science Methods, and
served as a University Supervisor for the M.Ed. student teaching and field experiences.
She also co-taught Geological Sciences 583B, Field Geology for Science Teachers,
offered at the Bahamian Field Station on San Salvador Island. In 2005, Carol retired
from teaching science at the Linworth Alternative Program in the Worthington School
system, where she had worked for the previous nine years. While there, she coordinated
the production of an educational CD-ROM about Long-Term Ecological Research in the
McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, a program funded through the National Science
Foundation. The CD set is available at cost of shipping and handling to middle-
and high-school teachers. In addition to the Education Outreach position at BPRC,
she facilitates iDiscovery, an on-line course offered through Miami University (Ohio)
for teachers who completed the summer teacher workshop about climate change at BPRC.
At some point, she would love to resume teaching marine biology and Earth systems
to Elderhostel groups in the Bahamas…especially in the winter!
Susana Deustua
Susana Deustua attended Swarthmore College graduating with a BA in Physics with
Honors, followed by a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Michigan. In February
of 2008, she joined the Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 Team, at the
Space Telescope
Science Institute
in Baltimore, MD. Before this, she was the Director of Education of the American
Astronomical Society. While a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory she worked with the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter,
and continues collaborating on the SNAP (SuperNova / Acceleration Probe) Collaboration
co-led by S. Perlmutter and M. Levi. SNAP is a proposed space experiment to measure
the properties of the accelerating universe and investigate the nature of the dark
energy which seemingly accelerates the expansion of the universe. Her education
experience is quite broad, ranging from teaching astronomy undergraduate and graduate
courses to developing science courses for middle school and high school science
teachers in astronomy and physics. She has reviewed middle school curriculum materials
for content accuracy for the State of California’s Department of Education, written
middle school curriculum, as well as served on many education program advisory boards.
She is currently co-chair of the US International Year of Astronomy 2009.
Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson
Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson, Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University
of South Dakota, where she teaches physical science and science methods for pre-service
teachers. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Geology/Comp. Science from
Ashland University, graduated with a master’s degree in Curriculum & Instruction:
Science Education from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction:
Physics Education from Texas A& M University. She was a Research Scientist and director
of the Texas Alliance for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Texas
A&M University. She was a member of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills writing
team, editing the Texas high school physics tutorial “The Science Traveler” in 2000.
She taught physics, geology and computer science in public schools and junior colleges
for over 20 years. She was a Presidential Award Winner for Excellence in Physics
Teaching in 2000, and a RadioShack Tandy Scholar in 1999. She has been a Physics
Teaching Resource Agent since 1992 and has developed science curriculum materials
and does research in the areas of science safety and literacy. She is the Managing
Editor of
ThePhysicsFront,
digital library for Physics and Astronomy Teachers K-12---where highlights of the
International Year of Astronomy 2009
and
The Year of Science 2009
will be featured.
Dr. John W. Moore
John Moore is W. T. Lippincott Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin
at Madison where he serves as chair of the General Chemistry Division and director
of the Institute for Chemical Education (ICE). He is a leader in chemical education,
especially in his use of technology. As editor of the Journal of Chemical Education,
a position he has held since 1996, his monthly editorials discuss with readers current
issues, concerns, and developments in chemical education. John was the founding
editor in 1988 of Journal of Chemical Education: Software, the first peer-reviewed,
academic journal to publish technology-based, digital resources in science education.
The JCE Digital Library collection and the ChemEd Digital Library pathway have been
established by JCE under Moore's direction.
John Moore has a passion for teaching chemistry, for which he has received many
national and local awards. He teaches general chemistry, advanced and honors general
chemistry, and inorganic chemistry, using technology and demonstrations to great
effect. John is the author of one of the leading introductory college textbooks,
Chemistry: The Molecular Science with co-authors Conrad Stanitski and Peter Jurs.
He is the author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and has presented
nearly 400 lectures at conferences and colloquia.
Moore is a leader in chemistry curriculum reform, most recently as co-director of
the NSF New Traditions systemic chemistry initiative. He is an active member of
the American Chemical Society, serving both the Society Committee on Education and
the Division of Chemical Education in several capacities.
Dr. Lynn Diener
Dr. Lynn Diener is an Assistant Professor at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, WI
where she teaches science classes. She has been heavily involved in the ChemEd Digital
Library as the library's former outreach specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and uses ChemEdDL resources frequently in her teaching.
James Skinner
James Skinner attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he was
a double major in physics and chemistry. He then entered Harvard University, where
he studied with Professor Peter Wolynes, receiving his Ph.D. in chemical physics
in 1979. He did his postdoctoral work at Stanford under the direction of Hans Andersen.
In 1981 Skinner joined the faculty of Columbia University, and in 1990 he moved
to the University of Wisconsin, as the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Professor of Chemistry
and Director of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute. He served as Department Chair
during 2004-07. Skinner has been the recipient of a number of awards for both scholarship
and teaching, including the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2003) and
Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006). He has coauthored
over 160 scientific publications, has given over 250 invited lectures, and has served
as advisor to 25 graduate students and 11 postdocs. Skinner's research interests
are in the theoretical chemistry of condensed phases.
Daniella Quiñones
Daniella Quiñones is the marketing coordinator for Teachers' Domain, an educational
service for teachers provided by Boston public television station WGBH. Teachers'Domain
(www.teachersdomain.org) is a free online library of over 1,800 standards-based
media resources for K-12 educators produced by public television, as well as online
professional development courses for science teachers. Prior to WGBH, Daniella began
her career in Los Angeles working as a production assistant for several hit NBC
shows, including the Emmy Award winning "Will & Grace." She left Los Angeles to
pursue a Master's Degree in Marketing Communications from Emerson College. She currently
lives in Boston and works to promote Teachers' Domain resources to K-12 teachers
across the US.
Russanne Low
Russanne Low, Ph.D., earned her interdisciplinary Ph.D. in 2001, examining climate
change, vegetation response, and human impact on the landscape on centennial and
millennial scales. A strong advocate for public climate change education, she has
substantial expertise in web-based educational resource development and on-line
teaching. She has instructed on-line graduate level courses for Earth science teachers
since 1999, served as an author, scientific advisor and curriculum architect for
educational resources in Earth system science and climate change. She has held leadership
positions in several federally funded national and international Earth system education
projects. Most recently she has served as the Regional Desk Officer for Africa and
the Near East for GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment),
at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and
is an adjunct scientist with the Consortium for Climate Capacity Building at the
University of Colorado, Boulder
Dr. Mike Mooney
Dr. Mike Mooney is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
in Golden, Colorado. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil and
General Engineering, and pursues research and development in construction technologies
and intelligent systems. Mike began developing Adventure Engineering curriculum
(AdventureEngineering.org) for K-12 science and math about 10 years ago and joined
the TeachEngineering.com development group about 7 years ago.
Mindy Zarske
Malinda S. Zarske is a former high school and middle school science and math teacher
with advanced degrees in teaching secondary science from Johns Hopkins University
and in civil engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She combines
her love of teaching with her knowledge of engineering as a K-12 Engineering Coordinator
for the University of Colorado's Integrated Teaching and Learning (ITL) Program,
which is part of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
Mindy’s work with the ITL Program’s award-winning outreach program includes directing
a team of graduate and undergraduate engineering students who teach in grades 3-12
local classrooms, as well as the creation and editing of innovative engineering
K-12 curricula, targeted at bringing pre-college engineering education to communities
with fewer resources. After classroom testing, these lessons and activities reside
at TeachEngineering.org, an online digital library of searchable, educational
standards-based K-12 engineering curricula. In addition, at the Denver School of
Science and Technology high school, Mindy coordinates and instructs 9-11th grade
Creative Engineering electives. And, at the university, she co-instructs
the undergraduate engineering K-12 Engineering Corps course.
Colleen McLinn
Colleen McLinn is an education outreach associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
in Ithaca, New York. She is currently serving as a subject matter expert and instructional
designer for undergraduate and adult informal education about bird behavior and
communication. Previously, she developed K-12 curriculum materials using animal
behavior to teach physics, as part of an NSDL-funded outreach effort by the Macaulay
Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Colleen's background is in animal behavior research and she received a Ph.D. in
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Minnesota in 2006. She is
particularly interested in using animal sound and video specimens in creative ways
at different parts of the learning cycle.
Jennifer Fee
Jennifer has worked in many aspects of both formal and informal education, in respected
nonprofits that maintain an educational mission. She is a skilled trainer, project
manager, and curriculum developer. While at the Missouri Botanical Garden, she worked
in School Programs, and was responsible for implementing the Discovery Unit science
curriculum. These efforts included teacher professional development, lesson and
field trip customization, and volunteer recruitment, training, and management. Later,
she became more involved in teacher mentoring and professional development at the
Center for Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning (CISTL), where she served as
the Missouri Botanical Garden's liaison.
Jim Pawelczyk, Ph.D.
Since 1995, Dr. Pawelczyk has been at Penn State University where he currently holds the title of Associate Professor of Physiology, Kinesiology and Medicine.
In 1998, Dr. Pawelczyk took leave from Penn State to train for and fly as a Payload Specialist Astronaut on NASA's STS-90 (Neurolab) space shuttle mission. During this 16-day space flight, the seven person shuttle crew served as both experimental subjects and operators for 26 individual life science experiments focusing on the effects of microgravity (chronic free-fall) on the brain and nervous system. The STS-90 flight, which took place April 17 to May 3, 1998, orbited the Earth 256 times, covered 6.3 million miles, and logged over 381 hours in space. Serving as a physiologist during this flight, Pawelczyk made the first direct recordings from human nerves in space.
Since his return to Penn State, Dr. Pawelczyk has investigated the
effects of microgravity on neural control of blood pressure;
countermeasures for use in space to help improve cardiovascular control; neural causes of orthostatic intolerance; the effects of insulin on cardiovascular and autonomic regulation; and the effects of prolonged bed rest on the cardiovascular system and its regulation. He is an invited consultant for the National Academy of Sciences on issues related to medicine and biology during spaceflight.
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