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LIDAR in Iceland measuring
ice elevations, using the data to look at the effects of climate
change.
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Nearly 30 years of global experience includes
pipeline drag out/fiber optic route planning, search of Noah's flood evidence, LIDAR mapping of the Arctic Ice sheet and oil
seep detection off of Cartagena. I moved to the Delmarva Peninsula in 2000 and started working in my new backyard, the
Chesapeake Bay. In 2005 I started workingon the Benthic Habitat Mapping Program with NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office. In 2007
I turned my efforts completely towards integrating NOAA Science into exciting educational programs. In 2010 I accepted
a one year appointment (sabbatical) with the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) where I am managing a program
to advance coastal marine forecasting models targeting coastal inundation (flooding that precedes a hurricane) and hypoxia
(the loss of oxygen from coastal waters (due to nutrients washing into our rivers and draining into our oceans.
My
program experience runs the gamut, and includes proposal writing, project design, field management, ship mobilization, bird-dogging,
doodlebugging, equipment operation, report writing, presentations, data interpretation in the field and office, expert testimony,
curriculum preparation and delivery, training, electronics trouble shooting, boat operations, etc.
My off hour passions have long involved the creation of hands-on educational programs that now meld perfectly
with the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) movement and actually cross the line with a little creativity that
may be contrued as "Art", hence these programs may be gaining "STEAM" in the realm of STEM education.
Under "Education" I'll discuss the (pre-NOAA) development of Aquabotz and then BOBs (Basic Observation Buoys),
and BABs (Build-a-Buoy), developed during my tenure with the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office.
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