Meet Our Team
- The purpose of SWAMP to GULF is to develop a place-based professional development (PD) for Florida middle school science teachers that builds on our Okefenokee Swamp place-based PD (Our2Swamp; NAS Grant #2000009821). We will train Florida teachers to monitor local watershed conditions and examine the health and resilience of local ecosystems along the Gulf through place-based research service learning (Reynolds & Ahern-Dodson, 2010). Teachers will integrate place-based citizen science projects and create inquiry lessons to increase students’ understanding of local watersheds in the Gulf of Mexico.
Meet our Team
Dr. Lacey Huffling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Grades and Secondary Education at Georgia Southern University. She serves as the project director and is responsible for the overall project direction, coordination, and completion.
Email link Twitter: @Lhuffling |
Dr. Heather Scott is the Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching in the Department of Middle Grades and Secondary Education at Georgia Southern University. She serves as the assistant project director and the curriculum coordinator.
Email link Twitter: @HScott_GSU |
Dr. Regina P. McCurdy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Grades and Secondary Education at Georgia Southern University. She serves as one of the assistant project directors and is responsible for recruiting and co-developing the curriculum.
Email link Twitter (X): @TeachCoachGrow |
Mrs. Mary Thaler is the Senior Administrative Assistant Center for STEM Education (i2STEMed) in the College of Education at Georgia Southern University. She serves at the grant administrator
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Dr. Checo Colon-Gaud is a Professor in the Biology Department and Associate Dean in the Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies at Georgia Southern University. He serves as the Adopt-A-Stream trainer and the aquatic ecology content expert for our project.
Email link Twitter: @ChecoLab |
Dr. Shainaz Landge is an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Southern University. She is the Director of Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) program at GS. She serves as the environmental chemistry content expert.
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Dr. Asli Aslan is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health and the director of the Institute for Water and Health. She is the environmental microbiology content expert.
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Luke Roberson, MSc., is the Engagement and Outreach Coordinator for the Institute for Water and Health at Georgia Southern University. An Adopt-A-Stream veteran, Luke serves to communicate science and train partners for Community-Based Participatory Research.
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Supported by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine under the Grant Agreement: SCON-10000690