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2006 Workshop People
Lisa Hunter, Center for Adaptive Optics, University of California, Santa Cruz
CfAO Professional Development Workshop Director
Lisa Hunter is the Director of Education and Human Resources at the Center
for Adaptive Optics (CfAO), where she develops and leads programs aimed at
students from the high school to graduate and postdoctoral levels. Her work
focuses on engaging scientists and engineers in educational efforts that increase
access to science and engineering, such as inquiry-based teaching approaches,
mentoring, and partnership building. She has designed residential science programs,
internship programs, workshops, and a range of other educational activities.
Candice Brown, Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS)
Candice is the Director of the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS)
at Santa Cruz. As Director, she co-teaches science education courses for
the Science Fellows program and she coordinates Center activities for doctoral
students in education, psychology, and in the sciences. She has a Ph.D. in
Education Psychology with an emphasis in Teaching and Learning/Science Education
from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focused on
middle school students from diverse backgrounds learning about science and
how to do science in a long-term weather research project. She has worked
on curriculum development, led professional development workshops, designed
traveling education exhibits, and taught science methods and theory courses
in the Division of Education at University of California, Davis. She founded
the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association, a nonprofit that helps protect
ocean resources through outreach and education. Most recently, she spent
the last few years as a science educator working for the Institute for Inquiry
(IFI) at the Exploratorium doing professional development design and helping
other informal science institution with professional development.
Barry Kluger-Bell, Exploratorium
Barry Kluger-Bell is Assistant Director for Science at the Exploratorium Institute
for Inquiry in San Francisco. He holds an A.B. in Physics and Mathematics
from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in physics from
the University of Colorado. Dr. Kluger-Bell has worked as a research physicist,
college level physics teacher, science teacher-educator, and as director
of the Bay Area Science Project. At the Exploratorium, he has served as science
resource teacher, developed curriculum materials, worked with elementary
teachers and children in their classrooms, developed and led inquiry education
workshops for teachers, university graduate students and faculty, and professional
developers. He is author of The Exploratorium Guide to Scale and Structure.
He has served as an advisor for video projects by WGBH, Boston and Annenberg/CPB
in Washington.
Anne Metevier, University of California, Santa Cruz
Anne Metevier is an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at
UCSC. She is an active member of the DEEP (Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary
Probe) and CATS (Center for Adaptive optics Treasury Survey) collaborations.
Her research focuses on analysis of the morphologies and internal motions of
galaxies in order to discern between the many physical processes that may govern
their evolution. Anne has been a participant in the Professional Development
Workshop since its inception in 2001 (though she did miss one year in order
to finish her PhD thesis). She has developed inquiry-based course material
for the COSMOS program and the Hartnell astronomy short course, has facilitated
inquiries at the PDW and at Hartnell, and she has served as lead instructor
of the Hartnell short course for two years.
Jason Porter, University of Rochester
Jason Porter is a post-doctoral fellow working under the advisement of Dr.
David R. Williams in the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester.
He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in optics from The Institute of Optics
at the University of Rochester. Jason’s thesis research focused on
the design of clinical diagnostic systems for vision and on improving, designing
and enhancing methods to correct the aberrations of the human eye using laser
refractive surgery, contact lenses and adaptive optics. Currently, he is
developing an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope for high-resolution
retinal imaging experiments in human patients with color vision deficiencies
and cone/rod dystrophies, as well as in animal models of retinitis pigmentosa
and glaucoma. Jason is also the lead editor for the first book that will
provide information on how to design, build and implement adaptive optics
systems for vision science applications. As a member of CfAO, Jason has designed,
organized, and facilitated numerous CfAO Educational activities. He continues
to be the lead vision science instructor in the ‘Stars, Sight and Science’ program,
and has assisted in the design and instruction of the Professional Development
Workshop. He has designed and facilitated inquiry activities at the Rochester
Saturday Open Lab while also mentoring undergraduates in the CfAO’s
Mainland Internship Program.
Scott Seagroves, University of California, Santa Cruz
Scott Seagroves received a BS (physics) and a BA (philosophy) from the U. of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now a PhD candidate in astronomy/astrophysics
at UC Santa Cruz. His research has been in "statistical astrophysics" on
such topics as the redshift distribution of gamma-ray bursts, the detection
of transiting extrasolar planets by amateur astronomers, and the velocity
distribution of pulsars. He has experience designing projects/curriculum,
facilitating inquiries, and teaching, in such venues as COSMOS / "Stars,
Sight, and Science",
Maui Community College, and the CfAO Professional Development Workshop. He
was an inaugural Science Fellow of the NSF Center for Informal Learning and
Schools (CILS). He is interested in education, outreach, policy, science
literacy, and in particular issues involving groups that are underrepresented
in science.
PDW Event Manager
Hilary O’Bryan, Center for Adaptive Optics, University of California,
Santa Cruz
CfAO Education Coordinator
Malika Bell, Center for Adaptive Optics, University of California,
Santa Cruz
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