New Facilities

Audubon Center at Debs Park, Los Angeles, CA
Development of an education plan and education materials for a new urban nature center. Opened in 2003.

Audubon Texas, Trinity River Audubon Center, Dallas, TX
Exhibit development and interpretive writing for a new environmental education center on the Trinity River in Dallas. To open in 2008.

Cerritos Library, Cerritos, CA
Storyline development and writing for the Children's Library exhibits in a new public library. Opened in 2002.

Flint RiverQuarium, Albany, GA
Exhibit label writing for a new nature center on southwest Georgia aquatic habitats. Opened in 2004.

IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum, Dania, FL
Concept/story development, content research, exhibit development and label writing about the history, technology and biology of sport fishing for a new public facility. Opened in 1998.

Ripley's Aquariums, Aquarium of the Smokies,
Gatlinburg, TN
Visitor guidebook and exhibit label writing for a new facility. Opened in 2000.

South Carolina Aquarium, Charleston, SC
Exhibit label writing. Opened in 2000.

The Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center
Exhibit development and interpretive writing for a new environmental education center in Key West. Opened in 2007.



Education

Audubon Texas, Dallas, TX
Developed and wrote Soundscape Science, a 4th-grade curriculum supplement and teacher institute on environmental investigations via soundscapes.

BBH Exhibits, Inc., San Antonio, TX
Wrote teachers' guides to accompany traveling exhibits: The Robot Zoo; Microbes; Theme Park; Extreme Deep; Brain: The World Inside Your Head; and Prehistoric Worlds—Backyard Discoveries.

IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum, Dania, FL
Developed and wrote project-based curriculum and lab activities. Education programs and materials awarded special recognition by the Broward County School Board.

Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA
Research and consultation on an education strategic plan; research and writing of a community partnership plan; editorial management of children‘s book series in English and Spanish; development of activities for the Web.



Exhibits

BBH Exhibits, Inc., San Antonio, TX
Label and audiovisual script writing for traveling exhibits: The Robot Zoo and Microbes. Both opened in 1997.
The Robot Zoo won a Themed Entertainment Association THEA award in 1999. Label writing for Extreme Deep, a traveling science exhibit that opened in 1999.

Brookfield Zoo, Chicago Zoological Society
Exhibit label writing for Habitat Africa!, which won an AZA Significant Achievement Award for Exhibits in 1994.
Exhibit label writing for Indian Lake trailside exhibits, 1995.

Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Interpretive plan development, research and label writing for Washington state natural history exhibits. Opened in 1997.

California State Department of Fish & Game, Monterey, CA
Interpretive sign design and writing for the Moss Landing Wildlife Area. Installed in 1996.

Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH
Concept plan development and label writing for a new habitat-based conservatory. Opened in 2003.
Won the Northern Ohio Live’s Award of Achievement in the natural resources/environment category.

City of Monterey, San Carlos Park David Packard Memorial
Memorial and interpretive sign design and writing. Installed in 1997.

Denver Museum of Natural History, Hall of Life
Label and script writing for a multimedia, interactive health exhibits gallery. Opened in 1990.

Denver Zoo
Exhibit interpretive plan development, research and label writing for Tropical Discovery (opened in 1993) and Primate Panorama (opened in 1996).

Anita C. Leight Estuary Center, Chesapeake National Estuarine Research Reserve in Maryland
Exhibit concept plan. Opened in 2003.

Museum of Man, San Diego, CA
Exhibit development and label writing for a new permanent exhibit, Footsteps through Time: Four Million Years of Human Evolution. Opened in 2002.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland
Label writing for Human Development, an embryonic and fetal exhibit. Installed in 1992.

Saint Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO
Exhibit label writing for Dig Dinos, a special exhibition.



Evaluation

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NJ
Evaluation of MARE, a marine sciences teacher training program.

Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA
(See Current Projects, too.)

  • Teacher training/professional development program evaluation.
  • Self-guided school group studies.
  • Research study on education program effectiveness.
  • Curriculum materials evaluation.
  • Deep Sea LINK (public program) evaluation.
  • Whalefest exhibit evaluation.
National Audubon Society, Corkscrew Swamp, FL
Visitor use study.

California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium,
San Francisco, CA
Front-end evaluation of aquarium storyline and exhibit topics for facility redesign.

Zoo and Aquarium Teen Programs Assessment Consortium
Consulted with and compiled a literature review for a collaborative multi-institution project to identify and develop best practices for conducting and evaluating teen programs at zoos and aquariums.



Training

Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans
Start-up volunteer training program and training materials
development. Opened in 1990. Evaluation of volunteer program, 1991.

California Dept. of Fish & Game, Education & Outreach
Staff training on program evaluation.

J.F.K. University Museum Studies Program, Berkeley, CA
Adjunct professor giving regular lectures on evaluation in museums.

NOAA Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC
Staff training workshop on program design and evaluation. Development of training materials.

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, SC
Staff training workshop on education program evaluation.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center
Consultation on developing a program planning and evaluation model; taught a training course on education program evaluation for educators.