Research

Current Research

The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, 10458

  • 2001-current: Integrated STEM education research in ecology and biology ▪ Intersection of outdoor STEM education and Nature Play in designed spaces ▪ Organic gardening as model for teacher STEM education

  • 2008-current: Phenology of native forest trees, shrubs, and herbs ▪ Meta-analysis of citizen science data ▪ Incorporation of citizen science methods in environmental monitoring ▪ Citizen science as a method of authentic learning for elementary-aged children ▪ Use of computer simulations to model long-duration and large-scale changes

Doctoral Research

State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, 13905

  • Adviser: William E. Stein, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences

  • Plants ▪ Function and development of ancestral plant groups ▪ Developmental plant model to simulate the growth of early euphyllophyte plants ▪ Hypothetico-deductive testing of botanical concepts using computer simulations

  • 1996 – 2005: Testing the Telome Concept: A Modeling Approach for Understanding the Growth of Early Vascular

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Above: Living Psilotum nudum (far left); Recreation of Psilotum TELOME model (middle left); Intercalary growth using the model (click on image-middle right); Apical growth using the model (click on image-far right)

Masters Research

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901

Adviser: Lawrence C. Matten, Ph.D., Department of Plant Sciences

  • A survey and description of the fossil flora of the Catskill Mountains, New York ▪ A reexamination of fossilized stumps of Eospermatopteris with insights on anatomy and phylogeny

  • 1993 - 1996: Re-Examination of Eospermatopteris eriana from the Upper Middle Devonian of New York

Undergraduate Research

John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH

Adviser: Jeffrey Johansen, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences

1989 - 1993: A Morphometric Analysis of Six Chaetoceros Strains from Inland Saline Lakes, with a description of Chaetoceros transisetus sp. nov. ▪ Survey of diatoms of inland saline lakes ▪ Description of a new species of diatom: Chaetoceros transisetus