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Appendix B: Biographical Information on Planning Group Members and Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biographical Information on Planning Group Members and Workshop Speakers
Pages 38-45
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He served as a member of the Panel on Mathematics and Computer Science for the recently released National Research Council report Bio2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists. He has received several National Science Foundation grants for undergraduate education and has been active in promoting quantitative training for undergraduate life science students.
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Her research interests include plant physiologic ecology and functional plant morphology, conservation biology of austral ecosystems, and ecology education. She serves on the Governing Board and is vice president for education of the Ecological Society of America, and she is on the American Biology Teacher Journal Advisory Committee.
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continental crust and attendant petrologic processes and spectroscopy of mineral surfaces and the search for life in extreme environments (from Yellowstone hot springs to Lake Vostok ice core) ; he is co-principal investigator in the Image and Chemical Analysis Laboratory at MSU.
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She has led several field studies in biology and art in Andros Island, the Bahamas, and Belize. She designed a course that integrates marine biology, botany, art, photography, and journal writing during eight evening sessions; a pool session to practice snorkeling; and a culminating eight-day field study on Andros Island.
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He is a trustee of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research and a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Bedford Oceanarium. He has served on committees and panels for international, national, and local organizations including the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization-Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies.
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As an educator, she is interested primarily in science education for nonscientists. She co-founded the Earth and Environmental Science Journalism program, and she has written educational software to help precollege students learn to read maps and to interpret data from environmental sensors.
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Her work in functional morphology involves microscopic analysis (transmission and scanning electron and confocal microscopy of the bivalve heartkidney system and molluscan meiofaunal ecology and systematics studies. She serves as project director for the Independent College Office on an NSF K-12 partnership project and chairs the National Research Council Committee on Attracting Science arid Mathematics Ph.D.s to K-12 Educatior~.
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She is past chair of the American Society of Plant Biologists Education Committee and a current member of the Education Committee of the Society for Developmental Biology. As a program officer in developmental mechanisms in the Biology Directorate of the National Science Foundation, she was involved in the development of a new funding initiative in the evolution of development and served as the directorate representative to the National STEM Digital Library Initiative.
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