Lisa Gardiner joined the Windows to the Universe team as an educational designer for the Earth section of the web site in June 2002.
She studied geology and marine science as an undergraduate at Smith College (B.A. 1995) and geology and paleoecology at the University of Georgia where she completed her Ph.D. in the middle of 2001. Her dissertation led her to interesting islands in the Bahamas such as Great Inagua and San Salvador where she studied marine invertebrates such as clams, snails, and coral.
Lisa has worked in the environmental education realm at the elementary and middle school level, taught undergraduate geology courses, and been involved with informal education and museum exhibit development. In addition to writing for the Earth section of Windows to the Universe, Lisa has written articles for the NCAR Education Web Site and Kids' Crossing. She develops Earth science classroom activities and is an instructor of professional development courses for science educators with NCAR Online Education. Lisa is also the author and illustrator of the children's books What's Up with Altitude? and Catastrophic Colorado
Last modified September 18, 2006 by Lisa Gardiner.
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