Other Experience

2016: Blog Moderator: eePro "Connecting to Nature", North American Association for Environmental Education

2004: President, North American Association for Environmental Education, Washington, D.C.

1999–2005: Board Member, North American Association for Environmental Education, Washington, D.C.

Funding, Grants, and Contracts

Grant awards in excess of $4.75 million dollars,1992–present

• 2012–2013: $125,000, Director, Kentucky Council for Postsecondary Education, Frankfort, KY (Summer Institute at Land Between the Lakes with Western KY University)
• 2009–2012: $160,000 Director, Kentucky Partnership for Environmental Education: Energy Project. Through Western Kentucky University and Learn and Serve America Grant.
• 2008–2013: $300,000, IEQ - Environmental Education Summer Institutes, funded by the KY Council for Postsecondary Ed., Frankfort, KY
• 2007–2009:  $297,000, Director, “Change Over Time,” Improving Teacher Quality V & VI, Council for Postsecondary Education, Frankfort, KY
• 2006–2007: $140,000, Director, “Interdisciplinary Environmental Education,” Improving Teacher Quality IV, Council for Postsecondary Education, Frankfort, KY
• 2005–2009 $296,000, Director, “Center for Teaching Excellence in Mathematics and Science Using the Environment as an Integrating Context II,” U.S. Dept. of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Education, Washington, D.C.
• 2002–2006: $89,000, Director, “Capacity Building for Underserved Youth Using Environmental Education,” U.S. EPA National Grant, Washington, D.C.
• 2002–2006: $800,000, Director, “Center for Teaching Excellence in Math and Science Using the Environment as an Integrating Context,” Fund for the Improvement of Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.
• 2005–2006: $300,000, Director, “Project Watershed II,” Improving Teacher Quality III. Council for Postsecondary Education, Frankfort, KY

Awards

• Kentucky Earth Day Award 2008, Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission
• Walter E. Jeske Award 2007, North American Association for Environmental Education (Highest Award for Environmental Education)

Presentations

• More than 60 international, national, regional, state, and local presentations in environmental education