Austin, Kelly

OnlineAdjuncts - Austin, Kelly

Kelly A. Austin

Department: Science, Math and Engineering

Kelly has been an adjunct at NCC and University of Maryland University College for more than 10 years, and also worked as a continuing education instructor and lab assistant at both Monroe and Bethlehem campuses. She is a native of New York; she worked as a forest ecologist at Saratoga National Historical Park and at other parks in New York State for several years, then worked for nine years as a research ecologist in Mississippi and the Pacific Northwest before returning back east to work as the Curator for Education and Exhibits for the National Canal Museum in Easton. Along with teaching online, she works as a horticultural therapist in the Lehigh Valley, and serves as the curator for the William F. Curtis Arboretum at Cedar Crest College. When not working, she is hiking and bird watching in the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos with her husband and pursuing her passions in forest farming, agroforestry, and organic gardening.

Kelly received her Ph.D. in Environmental and Forest Biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University; her M.S. in Biology from Villanova University, and her B.S. in Biology from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. She also earned a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Washington, and a Certificate in Horticultural Therapy from the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University Medical Center.