My Professional and Educational Experience:
Teaching Experience:
9/03 – present Science Teacher, Groton-Dunstable Regional High School
6/09 - 6/16 Faculty Advisory Council
9/06 – 6/15 Anime Club Advisor, GDRHS
6/09 - 6/13 Leadership Team, GDRHS
9/05 – 6/09 Robotics Club Advisor, GDRHS
1/05 – 4/05 Robotics Club Mentor, GDRHS
9/03 – 6/07 NHS Faculty Council, GDRHS
9/03 – 6/06 Games Club Advisor, GDRHS
9/01 – 6/03 Science Teacher, Lynnfield High School
9/01 – 6/03 NHS Faculty Council, LHS
9/02 – 6/03 Games Club Advisor, LHS
6/02 – 8/02 Adjunct Faculty – Physics Instructor, University of New Hampshire, Physics Department
6/01 – 8/01 Adjunct Faculty – Astronomy Instructor, UNH Physics Department
9/00 – 5/01 Physics Teacher Internship, Portsmouth High School, Portsmouth, NH
9/99 – 6/00 Teaching Assistant, Astronomy, UNH Physics Department
9/95 – 6/97 Teaching Assistant, Astronomy, UNH Physics Department
Additional Experience:
6/97 – 7/01 Manager, UNH Astronomical Observatory, University of New Hampshire, Physics Department
6/97 – 8/99 Research Assistant, UNH Physics Department/Earth Oceans and Space, for Eberhard Moebius working on the SEPICA instrument of the ACE spacecraft – instrument simulations for intercepting ions from solar events.
6/96 – 8/97 Research Assistant, UNH Physics Department for Jim Ryan working on programming for the neutron telescope.
6/94 – 1/96 Undergraduate Research/Thesis work, MIT Physics Department/Center for Space Research, software modeling and analysis of optically thin plasmas in supernova remnants
5/92 – 5/95 Undergraduate Research/Thesis work, MIT EAPS Department, software modeling and analysis of Venusian Volcanoes data from the Magellan spacecraft.
10/93 -12/93 Photometry of asteroid 79 Eurynome, Astronomy Project Lab, MIT, Wallace Observatory
Grants Received:
12/09 Groton-Dunstable Education Foundation Mini-grant: Galileoscopes
12/08 GDEF Mini-grant: FIRST Robotics
4/07 GDEF Grant: Group Size Reduction for Physics and 9th Grade Physics Units
11/05 GDEF mini-grant: FIRST Robotics (on behalf of Able T.)
4/05 GDEF mini-grant: Astronomy Lab and Demonstration Materials
Publications:
5/99 Siren, C B, Heirtzler, D, Popecki, M, Moebius, E, et al., Determination of the Energy Dependence of Ionic Charge States in Solar Energetic Particle Events With ACE SEPICA, Poster, American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting
5/95 Observations of Venusian Volcanoes, MIT Undergraduate Thesis, EAPS department.
Memberships and Professional Conferences and Workshops Attended
2/00 - present Member - American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
4/11 Attended NES APS/AAPT meeting, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA
10/09 Attended NES APS/AAPT meeting, UNH, Durham, NH
5/09 Attended NES APS/AAPT meeting, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
4/05 Attended NES APS/AAPT meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA
10/02 Attended NES APS/AAPT meeting, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
2002 - present Member - Lowell Regional Physics Alliance (LRPA)
5/09 - present Member - Physics Theorynet
2/08 - 2/09 Member - National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
3/08 Attended - NSTA National Conference, Boston, MA
12/07 Teachers as Scholars Seminar - Science, Art, and Miracle, Prof. Roy Gould, Harvard Center for Astrophysics.
Education – non-Degree oriented
7/13 Physics Labs AP Institute, St. Johnsbury Academy, VT, Southern NH University
7/09 Haystack Observatory, Radio Waves and Radio Astronomy RET Workshop
9/05 – 4/06 Studying Skillful Teaching, Fitchburg State College, MA
7/05 Physics AP Institute St. Johnsbury Academy, VT, Southern NH University
6/04 – 8/04 Chemistry 0002: Chemistry Principles with Lab, Tufts University
9/03 – 3/04 New Teacher Seminar, GDRSD
9/01 – 3/02 New Teacher Seminar, LHS
Education – Degree oriented
May 2001 M.A.T. Secondary Science, University of New Hampshire
May 1998 M.S. Physics, University of New Hampshire
June 1995 B.S. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology