2017 Conference Organizers
The Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology education conference is a project of:
- Ecological Society of America (ESA)
- Botanical Society of America (BSA)
- Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
- Society for Economic Botany (SEB)
This consortium jointly also manages the LifeDiscoveryEd Digital Library and serve as curators of Society-specific collections within the digital library.
Planning Committee
The vision and organization of this event would not be possible without the effort and determination of this group of individuals:
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- Phil Gibson, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Oklahoma (chair)
- Catrina Adams, Director of Education, Botanical Society of America
- Arietta Fleming-Davies, University of San Diego, QUBES, Ecological Society of America
- Juliet Noor, Lecturer, Biology, Duke Universitye
- Paul Strode, Science Teacher, Fairview High School, Boulder CO
- Traci Richardson, Science Teacher, Stillwater High School, Stillwater, OK
Conference Collaborators
We thank the organizations in the Professional Societies Alliance for Life Science Education (PSALSE) and others for their support in promoting the conference:
Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs (AIM-Up!)
American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES)
Bio-Link
BioQuest
Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI)
Data Nuggets
Ecological Research as Education Network (EREN)
The Geological Society of America (GSA)
Guiding Education through Novel Investigation (GENI)
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER)
Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES)
USA National Phenology Network | Nature’s Notebook (NPN)
ESA Staff
Teresa Mourad, Director of Education and Diversity Programs, Ecological Society of America
Education Interns: Sayd Hussain (Summer 2017); Yaneth Laffaurie (Fall 2017)