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oughly 6,000 students a year and is heavily influenced from his long involvement with SENCER. He has been active in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and has received funding from federal and private sources to support his work. His major curricular projects include the Environmental Science Activities for the 21 st Century (ESA21), a heavily-utilized curricular resource of introductory environmental science activities, and Technology-enhanced Activity Modules for Science (TEAMS) that uses digital media to promote STEM inquiry approaches in the elementary classroom. His current project, Sustainable Homes: Building “Smarter” Houses Today for a Better Tomorrow, is creating curricular materials on sustainable housing for use in introductory science courses for the K-12 and introductory college levels. Matt’s fellow project with SENCER aims to tap the abundant expertise in the organization’s members in grant writing, reviewing, and administration to aid SENCER participants in preparing high-quality proposals for curricular projects that support SENCER’s mission. At SSI 2010, Matt will be a panelist on the work session “Building a Community of Practice.” He is also a co-author on a poster entitled “A One-Stop (Curricular) Shop on Sustainable Housing.” Sharon LeDuc has been the deputy director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center since 2001. She holds a PhD in statistics from the University of Missouri. Sharon has been a part of NOAA since 1974 where she began her career at the then cooperative institute located at the University of Missouri – Columbia. She served as an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Meteorology, a consulting editor for Weatherwise, an American Mathematical Society chair for probability and statistics, a rapporteur for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission of Climatology, a lecturer for WMO in statistics, and as a delegate at the 10 th Commission of Climatology at WMO. Sharon also served on an assignment to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory for 13 years. While there she was chief of the Climate Branch and managed the tech transfer of third generation of air quality models, including model evaluation and graphic/visualization of model output. Sharon has received numerous awards for her outstanding work including the Department of Commerce Gold Medals (2) and a Bronze Medal, and two Bronze Medals from the Environmental Protection Agency, and a NOAA Administrator’s Award in 2006. She has also taught and advised as adjunct at a number of colleges and universities including University of Oklahoma, University of Missouri, William and Mary University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and Duke University. In 1999 she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from her undergraduate alma mater, Eastern Illinois University. Sharon was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. At SSI 2010, Sharon will co-present a plenary session on “The Changing Climate of Climate Change.” Dennis Lehman is currently professor emeritus and special assistant to the president at Harold Washington College. He was named the Harold Washington College Distinguished Professor for 2004- 2005, chair of the physical science department from 2000-2003, and chair of the science department from 2003-2004. Dennis was visiting professor of chemistry at Northwestern University from 1974-1988 and an instructor in biochemistry at the Northwestern University School of Medicine from 1980-1991. He received his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and his doctorate from Northwestern University. He is the co-author of Chemistry for the Health Sciences, now in its 8th edition. Dennis is currently the co-director of the SCI-Midwest, a SENCER Leadership Fellow, and co-PI on the NSFfunded STEP grant for Harold Washington and Roosevelt University for developing SENCER cohorts for math and science majors, developing several SENCER cohorts for developmental and honors programs and developing Great Lakes environmental proposals At SSI 2010, Dennis will be a panelist on the work session “Planning Next Steps and Accessing Resources.” 60
Joseph Liddicoat is an adjunct professor of science at New York University (NYU) and City College of New York (CCNY) where he has taught several liberal arts courses for more than 20 years. He is retired from the department of environmental science at Columbia University’s Barnard College. His graduate education is in earth science and geophysics from Dartmouth College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Joe’s published research is about Earth’s past magnetic field (paleomagnetism), tectonics, paleoclimate, paleontology, and heat flow. At Barnard, NYU, and CCNY, Joe has been part of the development and teaching of several courses that embrace SENCER ideals and philosophy. One of the Barnard courses he has worked on with Peter Bower and the Center for New Teaching and Learning at Columbia University is the SENCER Model Brownfield Action, the topic of a concurrent session at SSI 2010. The session will center on the experiences Joe and others have had teaching Brownfield Action to high school students in NYC from Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and to other students at an independent high school in Manhattan. At NYU, the courses that have been proposed and taught following attendance at the SENCER Summer Institutes since 2004 are Global Ecology, Environmental Restoration, Ecological Restoration, and Carbon’s Corner in the Global Climate Challenge, which is the topic of Joe’s poster at the SSI 2010. At CCNY, the SENCER course is New York Harbor, which was described in a poster Joe presented at the SSI 2009 in Chicago. Joe was chosen as a SENCER Leadership Fellow in 2008, and he is part of two post-Institute Implementation Award teams, one that he leads at NYU and another at Kansas State University that is led by Saugata Datta. At SSI 2010, Joe will present a session on “The SENCER Brownfield Action National Model in New Applications: Instructing NYC High School Students in Environmental Science.” He is also the author of the poster “Carbon’s Corner in the Global Climate Challenge” and the co-author of the poster “Using the SENCER Model Brownfield Action in Undergraduate Environmental and Geological Course Curricula.” Cynthia Maguire is a lecturer II for general science and chemistry at Texas Woman’s University (TWU) in Denton, Texas. She received her bachelor’s of science in biology and her master’s of science in chemistry from TWU. Cynthia strives to improve science comprehension among non-science majors by helping her students tackle their fear of science and get excited about learning. Cynthia established the first general science SENCER course at TWU, Environmental Chemistry: Global Perspectives, in the fall of 2007. The course examines chemical principles in the context of significant environmental issues such as sustainable energy, the ozone layer, adequate water quality/quantity, and acid rain. Through abundant field experience, students learn to assess environmental risk, collect surface water samples for analysis, and explore impacts of human development on nearby natural areas. Each semester, Cynthia shares her passion for science education and environmental water monitoring as her students become certified water quality monitors for the Texas Stream Team. Cynthia was recently chosen as the president-elect of the Native Plant Society of Texas (NPSOT). She will serve as the president of the organization in 2011. Her responsibilities involve the organization the society’s annual meeting, which will take place October 7-10 on TWU’s Denton campus. Cynthia hopes the October symposium will educate the public and show participants how to practice sustainable landscaping on their property and in their communities. The mission of NPSOT is to promote the conservation, research and utilization of the native plants and plant habitats of Texas. At SSI 2010, Cynthia will co-present the concurrent session “Field Report: Disaster, Drought, Development, and Degradation—Three Innovative Courses from SCI Southwest” and a poster on the same subject. 61
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