Russanne Low
Summer 2006 WAS*IS

Russanne Low serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). Prior to assuming this position, she was on the science faculty of the University of Maryland, European Division, and later served as Director of University of Minnesota’s Science CentrUM, a university-wide consortium supporting science outreach related to faculty research, simultaneously meeting the professional development needs of K-12 science teachers. She has been involved for many years in paleoenvironmental research in central Europe and SW Asia, and has an abiding scientific interest in societal impact on and response to climatic change, past and present. Through these research activities and extensive work facilitating scientist-teacher partnerships, she has developed a strong interest in promoting widespread understanding of the inextricable interconnection of human society and climate systems. To that end, Rusty is currently serving on the education and outreach umbrella committee for the International Polar Year (2007-2009), an international effort to increase understanding of the Earth’s system and global change as observed in polar regions, but also around the globe, and on the Education Steering Committee for the Gulf Coast Ocean Observing System (GCOOS).
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