The Authors

Anthony Carpi, Ph.D.
(Cornell University)

Anthony is the founder and president of Visionlearning. He is an Associate 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, The Scientific Method, Energy, The Metric System, Density, Temperature

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)

Earth Structure, Plate Tectonics II, Earth's Atmosphere, Plate Tectonics I, The Hydrologic Cycle, Minerals I, The Rock Cycle, Minerals II, Minerals III, Visualizing Scientific Data

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)

Genetics I, Genetics II, Scientific Writing

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.

Charles Darwin I, Charles Darwin II, Taxonomy, 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