Véronique Robigou - Emeritus Center Director - PI, UW School of Oceanography. 

Véronique is our emeritus center director.  A marine geologist, Veronique received her B.S. in geology in Toulouse, France, and a M.S. at UCLA in metamorphic petrology.  Her research has focused on the temporal evolution of hydrothermal vent fields and sulfide edifices on mid-ocean ridges. Véronique’s love for deep-sea geology led her to share her marine personal and scientific experiences with people from all walks of life.  She designed and later directed the NSF-funded REVEL Project: a professional and personal development learning experience offered to K-12 teachers selected who participated in deep-sea expeditions, genuine research projects, and improving inquiry-science in classrooms across the U.S. For more information on the REVEL Project.   Véronique’s research web site.

Susan Bullerdick - Center Program Manager, Seattle Aquarium Society

Susan is a baker and an avid reader.  She delights in helping COSEE-OLC develop partnerships with groups such as the Beach Naturalists because they bring a committment to ocean science education and ‘are always looking for more information to give to the public’.  In her spare time, Susan likes pina coladas, dogs that don’t bark very much, the smell of the forest after it rains, and liesurely Sunday afternoons reading the Times and working on the crossword.

 Kathy Sider - PI, Director of Conservation Education Seattle Aquarium

Kathy is a multi-winner of the grandmother-of-the-year awards in her family, an avid dog lover, part-time farmer and full-time advocate for ocean education. 

Philip Bell - PI, Associate Professor UW College of Education.

Phil is the newly-named Director of the UW Institute for Science and Mathematics Education and is also a family guy and an all-around nice dude.  He got his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computing from UC Boulder and his PhD from the other UC in Berkeley.   He directs the ethnographic and design-based research of the Everyday Science and Technology Group. As a learning scientist, he has studied everyday cognition and expertise in science, children’s argumentation, the use of digital technologies within youth culture, the design and use of novel learning technologies, and new approaches to inquiry instruction in science. Bell is a Co-Lead of informal learning research for the Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center . He has a background in human cognition and development, science education, electrical engineering, and computer science, and has built web-based learning platforms, designed and studied K-12 science curricula, and presently most of his time is spent conducting cognitive ethnographies of children’s development across social settings.  A book about Phil’s work that started back in Berkeley — Internet Environments for Science Education — was released in 2004. A reasonable subtitle for the book would be “how information technologies can support the learning of science.” The web site for the book describes it in more detail.

Carrie Tzou - PostDoctoral Research Associate, UW College of Education,  Carrie could be called ‘too cool for school’ but she hangs out at schools quite a bit.  She is a postdoctoral researcher with the LIFE Center and with COSEE-OLC. Her research interests include how to make scientific practices accessible to all students through the design of inquiry-based science curricula. Before coming to the University of Washington, Carrie earned her PhD from Northwestern University, her Masters from Vanderbilt University, and was a middle school science and health teacher.  

Andi Anderson - Center Evaluator, Sound View Evaluation

Andi has lead a varied life, always centered on ocean education and evaluation.  A fearless trumpet calling ou the charge for ocean literacy, Andi brings a complete toolkit of knowledge on evaluating community building and bringing out the successes.

Giovanna Scalone - Graduate Student, UW College Of Education

 Named most likely to succeed during last year’s COSEE-OLC Halloween Funfest and Apple Bobbing Contest, Giovanna brings a strong interest in multilingual cultural development to OLC.

Rick Keil - PI, Associate Professor, UW School of Oceanography. 

Rick plays ukulele, collects toy trains, is the Fleming Professor of the School of Oceanography, leads a lab that studies varied subjects such as pollutants in local waters, paleooceanography, organic matter cycling an climate change.  He is committed to educating ocean scientists so that we can better serve the public.