Anne Gold, unparalleled leadership in science education

Science service: Anne Gold has had an enormous impact on CIRES Education & Outreach Program—now the Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation, a shift which alone is a significant accomplishment. She is honored for her astonishing work growing the program into an internationally recognized powerhouse. Under her leadership, this team has built science education, outreach, evaluation, and professional development programs that serve CIRES, the greater university, teachers and students across and beyond the United States, and the national and international geosciences community. The utility and reach of these programs are tremendous: Anne builds highly effective programs and does above-and-beyond work to ensure they are sustainable, equitable, effective, and scalable.