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Cris Crissman
and Rita
Hagevik Rita: "My dream is that every school will someday use the power of GIS for student learning and achievement. One of the great things about living in America is that everyone has access to so much information. Now, through GIS, this information can be used to further our understandings of our world and each other." Cris: "The most exciting thing I do in my classes and my projects
is to explore with my collaborators the possibilities of learning through
live Webcast experiences. I can see so clearly that someday, fairly soon,
students and teachers will be Webcasting special events from their schools.
It's going to be global learning realized!"
Mike
Mull is the Applications Manager for the Town Of Cary, North Carolina.
His responsibilities include managing the GIS operations and the Town’s
Web site development. He has been employed by the Town of Cary for over
13 years. Before joining the Town of Cary, he was the GIS Supervisor for
the Wake Public School System for three years. He worked in the private
sector for 6 years before beginning his work with the school system. Mike
has been active in the North Carolina and National Urban Regional Information
System Association chapters for several years. During the 2001- 2002 year,
he served as president of NC URISA. He has served on a variety of committees
that consisted of people from NCSU, the NC Department of Instructions, NC
URISA, and other government agencies that began a program and trained K-12
teachers in GIS at NCSU. In addition, he has served on various committees
that have planned the bi-annual North Carolina Geographic Information Systems
conferences. Mike has a BS in Business Administration from UNC at Chapel
Hill and a Masters of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism from NCSU. He grew
up in Morganton, NC before starting his education at Chapel Hill. Currently
he lives with his family in Cary, NC. Pat
Schweigert is a media specialist at Leesville Road Middle School and
Wakefield Middle School in Raleigh, North Carolina. She attended a summer
GIS workshop and has been "visualizing" school-wide GIS projects
ever since! She lives in Wake Forest with her husband and two sons. Pat
loves to experiment with gadgets and technology and has written many grants
to support a variety of technology integration projects in her schools.
Carolyn Moser is a seventh grade
science teacher at Leesville Road Middle School. She recently returned from
Japan where she was a Fulbright Teacher. During the 2001-2002 school year,
Carolyn was a Kenan Fellow in Curriculum and Leadership Development. At
her school, she is the site coordinator for the SOAR after-school program.
Carolyn has attended many GIS summer workshops and uses this technology
to study the environment with her students. In fact, she is a North Carolina
Environmentally Certified teacher! She is a life long-resident of Raleigh,
North Carolina, where she lives with her family and four children. Gary
Moll is vice president of the Urban Forest Center at AMERICAN FORESTS
and has worked as an urban forester for 29 years in the public, private,
and nonprofit sectors. Over the last 10 years, Moll has led an effort to
map, measure, and analyze the value of urban ecosystems. This effort includes
the development of a new technique to analyze urban ecosystems using Geographic
Information Systems technology and a desktop application of this technique
called CITYgreen. He has authored numerous urban forestry articles and two
books, Shading Our Cities and Growing Greener Cities. Moll is a forestry
graduate of Michigan State University. Mike
Lehman is the Director of Sales for CITYgreen software at American Forests.
After a successful career in the IT industry, working for some of the world's
largest firms and operating his own computer company for 12 years, Mike
decided to put his knowledge and experience to work for a greater purpose
and joined American Forests in the Spring of 2001. "Our CITYgreen software
is uniquely suited for education. My goal is to make it available to all
students across the country."
Dr. Nain Singh teaches biotechnology courses at Carrington Middle School
in Durham, NC. He was born in the Caribbean and has a BSc. degree in Horticultural
Science. His advanced degrees are in Botany and Plant Pathology. Dr. Singh
spent over eighteen years in teaching and research at the University of
the West Indies and the Caribbean Research Institute. During this period,
he published over 47 research papers. He ended his career at the Caribbean
Institute when its mission changed and returned to the United States to
begin a new teaching career. Dr. Singh believes that teaching is a field
in which the primary objective is caring and kindness.  DeeDee Whitaker is a chemistry teacher at Southwest Guilford High school where she has been teaching for 16 years. Her interests include environmental chemistry and GIS mapping. She was recently recognized by North Carolina Science Teachers association and the Guilford County Business Advisory Board for outstanding science teaching. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BS and MAT in science teaching. 
Meredith Mull is a senior at Southeast Raleigh
High School. She has lived in the Raleigh and Cary areas of North Carolina.
Currently, she lives in Cary with her family and beagle, Bingo. Her future
goals include earning a degree in Criminal Justice. This is what lead her
to her senior project at SRHS in which she evaluated different types of
Critical Response Plans available to schools. In her project, she uses MapInfo
to create a GIS Critical Response Plan for her high school, Southeast Raleigh
High. Stacy
Nelson is originally from Jackson, Mississippi where he obtained a B.S.
in biology from Jackson State University. Stacy completed a masters degree
from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), the College of William
and Mary’s school of marine science. His Ph.D. was recently completed
at Michigan State University. Stacy has employed the use of remote sensing
and GIS to explore both land use change in coastal estuarine and wetland
systems, as well as various water quality applications. Dr. Nelson has recently
join the faculty at North Carolina State University within their Department
of Forestry and the Center for Earth Observation. |
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