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Chair of nonprofit Oak Island Beach Preservation Society, Inc.; advocate for ocean and Great Lakes education. Member, National Sea Grant Advisory Board.

Our science-based, nature-conservation themed exhibits graphics and Educators Guides are available free, to museums, libraries, zoos, aquariums and other qualified organizations.

I design standards-based curricula focused on using nature as a classroom, design/lead effective PD to build teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching outdoors and about science, and design/lead program evaluation. I aim to improve environmental attitudes and foster behaviors leading to action.

As a geologist from the University of Caldas in the city of Manizales, Colombia. I was trained as a paleontologist and micropaleontologist in a research institute in earth sciences, in this place I embarked on the history of the deep past and the evolution of life on planet Earth.