Kirsten
Tamborini
7th grade CREC TRMMS science teacher. Central CT. State University
BS. Southern CT. State University MS, summer whale research with
5 species, especially humpbacks in Newfoundland, Canada, Project
Oceanology certified instructor.
Edmund Smith
8th grade CREC TRMMS science teacher. UConn BS Natural Resources
Conservation, MA Kinesiology. Organized a Jr. Bioblitz at CREC TRMMS
Oct. 2004.
Jeff Moss
CREC TRMMS PTO President and strong supporter of the Bioblitz coming
here. St. Francis Hospital, Physician Assistant in Cardiology. Assisted
with Jr. Bioblitz at CREC TRMMS Oct. 2004.
Lisa Moss
CREC TRMMS Executive Officer and equally strong supporter of the
Bioblitz coming here. South Windsor Jr. Woman’s Club parliamentarian.
Assisted with Jr. Bioblitz at CREC TRMMS Oct. 2004. Co-coach of
the winning New England Middle School Science Bowl team.
Nathan Gardner
Lehigh University, BS Environmental Science with a concentration
in Geology. University of Maine, MS in Geoscience and Quaternary
Climate Science. Minor research in the western US, Newfoundland,
New Zealand, and Antarctica. Antarctic research designed to contribute
data for constructing sea-level curves from beach deposits along
the western coast of the Ross Embayment to help identify the cause
for the retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the last 10,000
years, and to help answer the questions of whether the ice sheet
is still retreating and whether it will continue to retreat into
the future and contribute tens of feet of global sea-level rise.
Rose Salonikios
Bates College Graduate, BS in Biology, intensified studies in marine
biology while participating in Denmark International Studies Program;
Summer Environmental Education Intern at Northwest Park, Windsor,
CT where she independently planned and carried through canoe trips,
environmental lessons for children, and family education programs,
lead nature walks, and worked closely with park rangers on field
work.
Monica Hughes
Houghton College in Houghton NY, B.S. in Biology, Magna Cum Laude.
SUNY-ESF at Syracuse, NY. MS in Environmental and Forest Biology,
currently working on her Ph.D. Intern at Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew. Harvard fellowship. Numerous academic awards especially from
the Mycological Society of America, numerous publications especially
on fungi from New Zealand and numerous presentations given on fungi.
Ben
Hayes
Certified Oregon State Park Forest Ranger; Graduate of Middlebury
College, cum laude, BS in Environmental Studies with a minor in
Philosophy and Religion; founder of the Thoreau Literary Society
a nature writing club; collaborated with local forest rangers to
establish a Forestry Management Plan in Middlebury.
David Birdsey
University of Connecticut, BS in Natural Resources, summer grad
studies with striped bass feeding of river herring, Holbrook Island
Sanctuary work in Maine, studies of European Starling and ground
foraging seasonal differences.
Ryan Dibala
University of Connecticut, BS Natural Resource Management and Engineering,
concentration in Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, minor in Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology. Helped coordinate a sea turtle festival
and conducted research on aquaculture of the Lion's paw scallop
(Nodipecten subnodosus) in Baja, California, Mexico."
Kipp Callahan
Tufts University, Sophomore, Environmental Science & History
co-majors. ENVIROTHON Team Windham High School 2 years. Most memorable
natural history event was being stuck in an incredible ice storm
in Pennsylvania.
Jim Ellsworth
Fairfield University with a BA in History. University of Bridgeport
in Education and Administration MS and 6th year degree. Stamford
teacher >thirty years, first grade to eighth grade. Project Explore,
Stamford's gifted program for sixth grade. Past ten years social
studies teacher at Scofield Magnet Middle School, a math, science
and technology school. Organized a bioblitz at SMMS for 200 sixth
graders last four years.
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