Chapter 10. Education and Outreach
Transition to a New Director
CIRES Research Associate Lesley Smith brings a third-grade classroom into the field. |
In 2000, Weaver decided to pursue new personal and professional goals,
and to resign her position as CIRES Outreach director, despite exhortations
from outreach staff and her supervisors encouraging her to stay. It
is a tribute to Weaver to note the seriousness with which CIRES sought a
new Outreach Director. She had successfully directed the new CIRES program
from its bare beginning to a program known by the national geoscience
education community and the University, and had demonstrated
to CIRES administration the breadth and depth of expertise and dedication
necessary to direct the program. After a national search, four applicants
from around the country were interviewed, and Susan Buhr was
offered the position in April 2001. Buhr's vision for the future direction
of the program included the historical goal of the program in systemic
reform plus new goals:
- To continue CIRES contributions to systemic reform in K-16 Earth
and Space Science education by disseminating and sustaining our
existing programs.
- To integrate more CIRES research into outreach projects by providing
NASA/NSF EPO components on research proposals and developing
more technology-based education expertise.
- To enhance awareness of CIRES within targeted audiences (CIRES
employees, scientific community) through support of CIRES exhibits
and communication.
- To contribute to the regional and national geoscience EPO community
through publications, resources and service.
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