WHO WE ARE:
Heather Ridge
Our KT reporter and science teacher at Boulder TEC High School in Colorado. Heather's field research experience was supported by the NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program. Check out Heather's Africa wiki page and Underground Safari blogspot!
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Rick Well-beloved Stone
Environmental science teacher at Charlottesville High School, Rick has taken his students to the Galapagos Islands and other environmentally cool places. He joined us in the field in Tshane and Bokspits, Botswana as an NSF RET teacher.
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Ashley Pollard
Ashley teaches all levels of science in a high school in rural Colorado, where her school is the only one for at least 50 miles! As an NSF RET teacher in the field, she shared her teaching experiences with agricultural science teachers at Maun Senior Secondary School in Botswana.
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Dr. Paolo D'Odorico
Professor of Ecohydrology at the University of Virginia. Paolo studies linkages between water, soil, and plants in arid and humid ecosystems around the world. He is pictured here exposing roots with a high powered Air Spade. Talk about dirty jobs! More...
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Dr. Natalie Mladenov
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at Kansas State University, Natalie studies organic carbon cycling in soils, water, and the atmosphere. Le rata Botswana! More...
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Frances O'Donnel
Frances is a graduate
student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton. She studies
the the temporal and spatial variability of belowground carbon dynamics in
savannas.
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Dr. Greg Okin
Associate Professor of Geography at UCLA, Greg studies arid soils, erosion, and dust. Check out this cool article in Discover Magazine that spotlights Greg's research. More...
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Dr. Kelly Caylor
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, Kelly's research focuses on the ecohydrology of drylands.
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