Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Susan Buhr
Director
Program design, management, and evaluation. Dr. Buhr's experience includes eleven years working with teachers and school districts to design and provide professional development for K-12 science teachers, as well as a PhD in atmospheric chemistry.
sbuhr@cires.colorado.edu
303-492-5657

Susan Lynds

Geoscience education evaluation and program assessment. Susan's background includes experience as a scientific database manager with NOAA and CIRES, program evaluation with Sea Grant, and development of science museum assessment tools.

susan.lynds@colorado.edu
303-492-1714

Anne Gold

Project coordinator for CLEAN (Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network) project with the goal of developing a new National Science Digital Library pathway that offers high quality digital teaching resources to teachers. Dr. Gold has research experience in paleoclimatology and GIS. She has been an instructor at the college level for graduate and undergraduate classes and served as an advisor for three Masters students.

anne.u.gold@colorado.edu
303-735-5514

Amanda Morton

Office Manager. Amanda is a recent University of Colorado- Boulder graduate who got her Bachelors degree in Environmental Design with an emphasis in design. Amanda enjoys art and design and is always happy to answer your questions about the CIRES Education Outreach Group.

outreach@cires.colorado.edu
303-492-5670

Lesley Smith
Professional development of teachers and scientists. Dr. Smith has research experience in biogeo-chemistry of freshwater and marine environments. She currently focuses on inquiry based teaching.

smithlk@cires.colorado.edu
303-735-1750

Mark McCaffrey

Mark S. McCaffrey (Masters in Educational Leadership) is an Associate Scientist III who has been involved with developing the Essential Principles of Climate Science Literacy, which have been reviewed and endorsed by over a dozen federal agencies. He is currently involved with developing and deploying the Climate Literacy Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN, the Inspiring Climate Education Excellence (ICEE) teacher professional development program, and the Climate Adaptation Mitigation e-Learning (CAMeL) project. He wrote a Climate Literacy blog (http://cires.colorado.edu/blogs/mccaffrey/).

Emily Kellagher

Science Educator, education technology and curriculum specialist. Emily Kellagher MsEd has a 14 year career in education and education leadership. She loves working with teachers and education professional to meet the needs of quality science education. She always has a friendly smile and a cheerful attitude as well as a sharp wit. Emily excels in organization which helps her keep on top of all the outreach projects. In her spare time, she participates in many art events and crafts pottery.

emily.kellagher@colorado.edu

303-492-5520

David Oonk

Videographer and photographer for CIRES. David has produced numerous videos featured on the CIRES website, ranging from division overviews to individual researchers and projects. David is from Boulder at went to school at the University of Colorado- Boulder where he studied film and anthropology. He is an avid hiker with a longtime love for the outdoors.

david.oonk@colorado.edu
303-735-3155 (Outreach)
303-492-4790 (Campus)