2019 Organizers

Conference Organizers

The Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology education conference is a project of:

• Ecological Society of America (ESA)
• Botanical Society of America (BSA)
• Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)

This consortium jointly also manages the LifeDiscoveryEd Digital Library and serve as curators of Society-specific collections within the digital library.

Planning Committee

The vision and organization of this event would not be possible without the effort and determination of this group of individuals:

• • Molly Phillips, Florida Museum of Natural History (chair)
  • Maggie Paxson, Gainesville High School
  • Catrina Adams, Director of Education, Botanical Society of America
  • Arietta Fleming-Davies, University of San Diego, QUBES
  • Debra Lynn Linton, Biology Professor, Central Michigan University,
  • Richard Kliman, Cedar Crest College, Society for the Study of Evolution
  • Paul Strode, Science Teacher, Fairview High School, Boulder CO
  • Tom Meagher, University of St. Andrews, Society for the Study of Evolution

Conference Collaborators

We thank these organizations for their support in promoting the conference:

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES)
• Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE)
• Bio-Link 
• Bio-Quest
• Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• Community College Consortium For Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)
• Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI)
• Data Nuggets
• Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
• Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER)
• Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES)

ESA Staff

Teresa Mourad, Director of Education and Diversity Programs, Ecological Society of America

Education Interns: Ravi Lipman (Summer 2018), Anna Martinez (Fall 2018), Joyce Li (Spring 2019).