E&O Working Group

Overview of the Education and Outreach Working Group

The E&O Working Group currently consists of 12 members from the HUB (University of Florida and Florida State University).

Mission & Scope

This working group will:

• Coordinate Education and Outreach activities
• Communicate with TCNs
• Develop activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs
• Establish regular communication with one Education and Outreach point person from each TCN
• Plan for, and implement, Education and Outreach Workshop
• Facilitate common goals

Members

• Bruce MacFadden, FLMNH
• Austin Hendy, FLMNH
• Cathy Bester, FLMNH
• Betty Dunckel, FLMNH
• Shari Ellis, FLMNH
• Reed Beaman, FLMNH
• David Jennings, FLMNH
• Kevin Love, FLMNH
• Austin Mast, FSU
• Deb Paul, FSU
• Gil Nelson, FSU
• Libby Ellwood, FSU

E&O Online Resources

BioDiversifying the Curriculum Liu, D.; CBE Life Sci Educ Vol. 8 No. 2 100-107 (2009)

Bringing the Museum into the Classroom Gano, S.; Kinzler, R.; Science Vol. 331 No. 6020 pp. 1028-1029 (2011)

The Current State of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research and Public Engagement Dickinson, Janis L; Shirk, Jennifer; Bonter, David; Bonney, Rick; Crain, Rhiannon L.; Martin, Jason; Phillips, Tina; and Purcell, Karen. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 291–297 (2012)

Missing "Links" in Bioinformatics Education: Expanding Students' Conceptions of Bioinformatics Using a Biodiversity Database of Living and Fossil Reef Corals Nehm, Ross H.; Budd, Ann F.; American Biology Teacher, Vol. 68 No.7 p91-97 (2006)

The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society Suarez, A.; Tsutsui, N. BioScience Vol. 54 No. 1 66-75 (2004)

E&O WG Meeting Notes

See what we are up to in the E&O WG:

• E&O WG notes 20 August 2013

HUB Resources for the E&O WG

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