Professional Experience:
My professional experience has affored me the opportunity to work closely with top water and climate scientists and educators from around the world, and to help forge networks of professionals on local to global scales, developing strategies to translate and make accessible scientific research and data for education, communications and outreach audiences.
In the 1980s and 90s my focus was on water as an integrating theme for education and public engagement. I published Waterwise: the Wet Gazette, and later led the Boulder Creek Watershed Initiative and BASIN project, which modeled a watershed-based approach to community information and engagement.
Starting in 2001, my focus turned more to climate and I worked for ten years with top scientists from around the world as an Associate Scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2011 to 2015, I led climate change education efforts at the National Center for Scence Education, initiating a national survey of secondary science educators to learn whether and how they teach climate change.
An aspirational goal I have set for myself is to promote the transformation of the world's three million schools into safe, sustainable, inspiring living laboratories that are community hubs of innovation and engagement, using water, food, renewable energy and energy efficiency as interdisciplinary and integrating themes for learning the skills and insights required for the challenges of the 21st Century and beyond.