Anthony Carpi, Ph.D.
(Cornell University)

Anthony is the founder and president of Visionlearning. He is a Professor of Environmental Toxicology at John Jay College of the City University of New York with extensive experience in teaching and educational research. He has authored articles for the Journal of Chemical Education and the Journal of College Science Teaching on the design and effectiveness of Web-based teaching resources. He is the recipient of two National Science Foundation grants for the development of online science teaching resources, and he was one of the designers of the HETS virtual plaza, an online education cooperative for Hispanic students. He has published extensively on the fate, behavior and toxicity of mercury as an environmental pollutant. In addition, he is active in research in the area of environmental forensics.

The Universe, Nucleic Acids, Matter, Atomic Theory I, Atomic Theory II, The Periodic Table of Elements, The Mole, Chemical Reactions, Chemical Bonding, Chemical Equations, Water, Acids and Bases, Nuclear Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Carbohydrates, Fats and Proteins, Matter: States of Matter, Visionlearning, Visionlearning Teaching Modules, Using MyClassroom for Teachers, Using MyClassroom for Students, Educational Web Design, Authoring Modules I, Authoring Modules II, Using Science News in Teaching, A brief history of scientific practice, Comparison in practice: The case of cigarettes, Experimentation in practice:, Alhazen: Early experiments on light, Data collection, analysis, and interpretation:, Forming and testing historical hypotheses:, Public databases, Statistics in research design, Data: Statistics, Data: Using Graphs and Visual Data, Research Methods: Modeling, Scientific Communication: Understanding Scientific Journals and Articles, Research Methods: The Practice of Science, Controlling Variables, Scientific Institutions and Societies, Scientific Ethics, Scientists and the Scientific Community, Scientific Communication: Utilizing the Scientific Literature, The Process of Science, The Scientific Method, Energy, The Metric System, Density, Temperature, Bone Changes in Rock Climbers

Martha Marie Day, Ed.D.
(Tennessee State University)

Martha is a professional educator, seminar leader and consultant who has frequently served as a mentor to science teachers. As an award-winning classroom teacher and university adjunct professor, she has taught courses in chemistry, physics, biology and animal agriculture. Martha has authored articles for The Science Teacher, Tennessee Educational Leadership and The Eisenhower Math/Science Consortium. She has presented numerous seminars and workshops at National and State Science Teacher Conventions on topics such as block scheduling, cross-curricular instruction, classroom management, content area reading, small-scale chemistry and interactive technologies for the science classroom.

Density, Temperature

Anne E. Egger
(Stanford University)

Anne is a lecturer and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University. She teaches a course called Dynamic Earth that introduces students to the geosciences. In her research, she combines geology and geophysics to better understand the geologic setting and history of regions such as the Basin and Range in northeastern California.
For more information see Anne's personal web page.

Earth Structure, Plate Tectonics II, Earth's Atmosphere, Plate Tectonics I, The Hydrologic Cycle, Minerals I, The Rock Cycle, Minerals II, Minerals III, A brief history of scientific practice, Comparison in practice: The case of cigarettes, Experimentation in practice:, Alhazen: Early experiments on light, Data collection, analysis, and interpretation:, Forming and testing historical hypotheses:, Public databases, Statistics in research design, Data: Analysis and Interpretation, Data: Statistics, Data: Uncertainty, Error, and Confidence, Data: Using Graphs and Visual Data, Research Methods: Comparison, Research Methods: Description, Research Methods: Experimentation, Research Methods: Modeling, Scientific Communication: Understanding Scientific Journals and Articles, Research Methods: The Practice of Science, Scientific Communication: Peer Review, Controlling Variables, Scientific Institutions and Societies, Scientific Ethics, Scientists and the Scientific Community, Scientific Communication: Utilizing the Scientific Literature, The Process of Science, The Scientific Method, Visualizing Scientific Data, Bone Changes in Rock Climbers, The Case of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

John Arthur Harrison, Ph.D.
(Stanford University)

John is currently a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, leading a collaborative, UNESCO-funded study of global river biogeochemistry. John has received a Sc.B. in biology from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. At Stanford, John studied nitrogen and carbon dynamics in polluted Mexican rivers. While in graduate school, John also founded and directed the Stanford Biogeochemistry Seminar. He is an avid old-time fiddler and outdoor enthusiast.

The Carbon Cycle, The Nitrogen Cycle

Natalie H. Kuldell
(Harvard University)

Natalie is an Instructor in the Division of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently developing and teaching laboratory classes required for students interested in the planned Biological Engineering major, an emerging discipline that uses engineering principles to approach biological questions, at MIT. From 1997 through 2003, Natalie was a faculty member at Wellesley College where she designed and taught investigative laboratories in molecular genetics, cell physiology and cell biology. She also served as lecturer for the accelerated class in introductory cell biology. Natalie's research interest is eukaryotic transcription, specifically how the elongation phase of transcription is regulated. She conducts her research at MIT as well as at Harvard Medical School where she is a visiting scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Fred Winston.

Genetics II, Genetics I, Scientific Communication: Understanding Scientific Journals and Articles, Scientific Communication: Peer Review, Scientific Writing

Nathan H Lents, Ph.D.
(Saint Louis University)

Nathan is a molecular cell biologist working in the general area of cell proliferation control and cancer biology. His research laboratory approaches the questions of cell proliferation through a combination of computational and bioinformatic approaches and more traditional cellular signaling and gene expression studies. Nathan is equally immersed in research efforts to develop and disseminate innovative practices for teaching biology to majors and nonmajors alike, especially those involving the internet and web2.0.

DNA I, DNA II

Alfred L. Rosenberger, Ph.D.
(City University of New York)

Alfred has worked at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park conducting research on the conservation biology of monkeys, and at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, as a Digital Curator for electronic educational outreach. Before he was an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has developed educational kiosks and websites focusing on the biology of mammals as well as new research methods involving three-dimensional virtual specimens. His scientific research emphasizes the evolutionary history and adaptations of South and Central American monkeys and the origins of anthropoid primates, which is the taxonomic group to which we belong with monkeys and the more conventional apes. He is forever fascinated by the challenge of creating a multi-disciplinary story of primate evolution. He learned early on, while working toward a Ph.D in Biological Anthropology at the City University of New York, that the study of skulls, skeletons and teeth of museum specimens and fossils makes a lot more sense when one also spends time chasing monkeys in the rain forest to learn what the animals actually do.

Taxonomy I, Charles Darwin I, Charles Darwin II, Taxonomy II: Nomenclature, Charles Darwin III, Adaptation

Iris Saxer, M.A./M.S.
(Cornell University)

Iris is a Penguin Biologist at the Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division with extensive skills in research and teaching. She has taught Wilderness First Aid at Wilderness Medicine Institute and she is a Senior Instructor with the NOLS.

Adaptation

Carl Shuster, M.A./M.S.
(University of New Mexico)

Carl is an Instructor of Anatomy & Physiology, Genetics and Environmental Science at Madison Area Technical College. He obtained his M.S. in Biology from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research experience includes five years at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Paraguay and the Paraguayan Office for the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species. He is active in online teaching and distributed education, especially in the area of Anatomy and Physiology.

Cells

Nathaniel Page Stites, M.A./M.S.
(Stanford University)

Page currently teaches high school math at the Providence Country Day School, in East Providence, Rhode Island. He earned his B.S. in Geological and Environmental Sciences and his M.S. in Geophysics, both from Stanford University. Page worked for two years at the United States Geological Survey, where he helped to implement pseudo-real-time representations of low frequency crustal deformation data. He is also a trained wooden boat builder and loves to do woodworking in his spare time.

Waves and Wave Motion, Light I, Light II, Gravity

Gary Leo Welz, M.A./M.S.
(University of London)

Gary is an Instructor in the Mathematics Department at John Jay College, CUNY. He has over 20 years of experience in education and media as a teacher, writer, speaker, producer, consultant and journalist. He has special expertise in digital media production, digital asset management and digital content distribution. Before joining the Media Lab he was a Senior Business Consultant in the Media Services Group of the data storage giant EMC Corporation. Gary is the author of numerous conference papers and trade press articles about the development of the media industry on the Internet and multimedia technologies.

Wave Mathematics

Morris S. Zedeck, Ph.D.
(University of Michigan)

Morris received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Michigan in 1965. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow and one year as assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine. He worked at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with a joint faculty appointment at the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences for approximately 15 years, where he studied the pharmacological and toxicological effects of cancer chemotherapeutic agents, of chemical carcinogens and of other drugs and chemicals. Morris has published approximately 75 papers and abstracts which include original scientific research, chapters, reviews and an edited book. Currently, he is President of the Zedeck Advisory Group, Inc., New York, and serves as consultant to attorneys and as an expert witness in the areas of pharmacology and toxicology in criminal and civil matters. He recently retired from the Department of Sciences at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Absorption, Distribution and Storage of Chemicals

Jessica E. Zimmer

Jessica is a doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Florida. She has developed gallery and online museum exhibits with the American Museum of Natural History, the Asia Society, the Contemporary Arts Forum, the Museo Italo-Americano, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Exploratorium. She started in bilingual education as a peer educator in English as a Second Language classes in northern California and later worked as a teacher’s assistant in bilingual K-12 classrooms in southern California. Jessica is a freelance journalist for the New York Times Company. Her current research interest is Southeastern archaeology.

Visionlearning, Visionlearning Teaching Modules, Visionlearning and the National Science Education Standards, Using History and Biographies in Science, Teaching Effectively with Multimedia, Authoring Modules I, Authoring Modules II, Using Science News in Teaching