Editors & Authors

• Lyons, S. E., & Banbury, M.M. Urban Stormwater Runoff: How to Stem the Toxic Tide.
• Dean, M.L., Alonzo (Flanagan), S., & Banbury, M.M. Poetic Wetlands.
• Ybos, C., & Banbury, M.M. Whose Job is it to Take the Garbage Out Anyway?
• Smith-Gratto, K., & Banbury, M.M. Food Chains and Filmstrips.
• Smith-Gratto, K., & Banbury, M.M. Wetland Loss is No Laughing Matter.
• Wieberg, D. G., & Banbury, M.M. Wearing Our Habitats Out.
• Wieberg, D. G., & Banbury, M.M. Button Up the Wetlands.
• LaCour, A., & Banbury, M.M. (Writers) "Wetland Blues" (22 minute video). Banbury, M.M., Lyons, S. E., Cain, M.A., Rivera, D. B., & Alonzo (Flanagan), S. F. Wetland Blues: A Video Guidebook for Teachers.

Mary has received awards for her community service and her teaching. She received the first Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Education and the first Seraphia D. Leyda Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of New Orleans. She is currently a member of the Lake Pontchartrain Foundation Basin education committee. Email: mbanbury@uno.edu

Anne B. Rheams is the Coordinator of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation's (LPBF) Education/Outreach Program. She develops, implements, and manages environmental education/outreach programs that seek to educate and inform Basin citizens, teachers, and students about the Pontchartrain Basin's natural resources, environmental problems, and solutions. The education/outreach program includes hands-on experiences and participation projects that get people involved in the restoration of the Basin. In every presentation she emphasizes the power of the Basin citizens to demand that the Basin be a healthy place for people to recreate and for wildlife to live. Anne is Executive Producer of two video documentaries, "Art on the Lake" and "Pontchartrain Stories." She is writer/editor of numerous environmental publications. From 1990 to 1992, she was the coordinator of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's Urban Nonpoint Source Pollution Program. She received her B. A. in Geography and her Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans. Anne is an active member of the Louisiana Environmental Education Interagency Committee, Louisiana Science Teachers Association, the Louisiana Environmental Educators Association, the National Marine Educators Association, and the North American Association for Environmental Education. Email: lpbfanne@communique.net

Authors

Sue Ellen Lyons has been an educator for thirty-one years and presently teaches biology, environmental science, and geology at Holy Cross School in New Orleans. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from Our Lady of Holy Cross College and a Master of Arts in Science Teaching from the University of New Orleans. Sue Ellen is an active member of national and state science teacher organizations and currently serves on the Executive Board of the LA Science Teachers Association. She is a contributing writer of WILD Louisiana and PROJECT TELLUS for LSU Sea Grant and the LA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. In cooperation with the University of New Orleans and the Society for Environmental Education, Sue Ellen was instrumental in developing educational materials on wetlands and urban stormwater runoff for PROJECT CEED. She has also developed supplementary curricular materials for the Program for Leadership in Earth Systems Education, National Project W.E.T., and Global Environmental Education. Sue Ellen has been honored as Louisiana's Biology Teacher of the year, Earth Science Teacher of the Year, Environmental Educator of the Year, Conservation Educator of the Year, Outstanding High School Science Teacher, Tandy Technology Scholar, and as a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching. Serving on education committees of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation and the Louisiana Nature Center, Sue Ellen presents many teacher workshops each year and sponsors a project by Holy Cross students to educate the public about the effects of urban runoff on water quality of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. For their efforts, the group has been honored at the local, state, and national levels, including Louisiana's Conservation Youth of the Year, Central Region Winners of the Seiko Youth Challenge and the EPA Region 6 President's Environmental Youth Award. Email: slyons2033@aol.com

Sharon Flanagan, M.A.S.T., is an Assistant Professor of Sciences at Nunez Community College located in Chalmette, Louisiana. She is the Co-Principal Investigator of Nunez's LAMP Grant (Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation) funded by the National Science Foundation. She has been an NSF Fellow for the 1995 and 1996 Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC) Workshop in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She is the President of the Southern Association of Marine Educators (SAME) and is a Chapter Representative for the National Marine Educator's Association (NMEA). Sharon was the Manager/Curator of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Museum in Kenner, LA and Project Coordinator for Project CEED (Coastal Education for Economic Development). She has recently completed an internship for the Department of Environmental Quality and is currently a doctoral student in the College of Education at Louisiana State University.

Michael C. Greene recently (relatively) received both his Bachelor of Science degree (Aquatic Ecology) and Master of Science degree (Wetlands Ecology) from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA. Since his latest graduation, he has worked extensively with young people from both area high schools and college programs across the country, teaching wetlands ecology and restoration ecology, and environmental science. Michael is also a full-time researcher in the Wetlands Restoration Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, at Southeastern Louisiana University. Prior to his academic rejuvenation, he was involved in many facets of the electronics industry, including the use of computers. He is both sole and co-author of numerous scientific publications concerning wetland restoration. Michael currently is residing quietly on the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain, while attempting to assist in restoration efforts of this important estuarine system. Email: mgreene@selu.edu

Contributors

Dinah Forsyth Maygarden has spent the last five years working for the Louisiana Nature Center and the Audubon Institute in various educational roles including Project Director of Project CEED and developing the LaBranche Wetlands Teacher's Guide. She received a Bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Wales, and a Post Graduate Certification of Education from the University of Lancaster, England. She has taught middle school science and high school biology. Dinah has been involved with coastal issues on a volunteer basis for many years, working with the Sierra Club, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, and the LaBranche Wetlands Coalition. Email: dmaygarden@uno.edu

Deborah B. Rivera, Ph. D, teaches courses in reading and special education in the Department of Teacher Education at Nicholls State University. She received her B. A., M. ED., and Ph. D. degrees from the University of New Orleans. She is certified to teach in the areas of elementary education, gifted, and mild/ moderate disabilities. Deborah has ten years of teaching experience: four years in the general classroom, grades 3-5, and six years in the gifted program, grades K-8. She has taught all subject areas: reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies. She has presented at national conferences and at the Louisiana Science Teachers Conference. Her most recent publications include:

• Rivera, D. B., Kuehne, C. C., & Banbury, M.M. (1995) Performance-based assessment: A tool for authentic learning and instructional decision making. Gifted Child Today, 18 (5), 34-40.
• Rivera, D. B., & Banbury, M.M. (1994). Conserving water and clarifying values. Science Scope, 17 (8), 15-19.

Anita Senentz is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Special Education at the University of New Orleans, focusing upon the eas of gifted education and technology. She works as acting Director of the SPARKLE enrichment program for gifted children. Anita also serves as a technology consultant to the College of Education at the University of New Orleans, to metropolitan area schools, and to local businesses, offering Internet workshops and creating a variety of instructional materials for incorporating computers and technology into classrooms and workplaces.

Jennie Gill is an instructor and lab administrator for the college of education at the University of New Orleans. She teaches computer literacy for preservice teachers and provides instructional support to faculty incorporating the Internet into their classes. Jennie received a master's degree in elementary education from the University of New Orleans and a bachelor of science degree in business from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Her other teaching experiences include working as a private consultant doing in-service computer training for Jefferson Parish Public

Schools. She is also an active member of Phi Delta Kappa, the Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators, and the International Society of Technology in Education.

Illustrator

Taylor B. Randolph has worked as a medical and natural history illustrator for sixteen years. She trained as an illustrator in Heidelberg, Germany where her work was published by Springer Verlag GmbH, ADAC Verlag, and Heering/Ringier Verlag. In New Orleans, she has illustrated for the Louisiana Nature Center and the Audubon Zoo. As a volunteer for the Education Committee of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, she painted a wetland mural and worked on outreach programs. Taylor has also been a volunteer with the Louisiana Nature Center and the Waldorf Education Association of New Orleans.

Graphic Designer/Illustrator

Wanda Richmond Gautschi graduated with an associates degree in advertising from the Art Institute of Houston in 1982. Since then she has done freelance design and illustration for various companies, publications, institutions, and individuals in Texas, the Florida Panhandle and Louisisna. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, cookbooks, annual reports as well as on signage, billboards, packaging, greeting cards, posters and T*shirts, throughout the Gulf Coast. Wanda is currently working at her family's printing company (Richmond Printing, 738 Phosphor Avenue, Metairie LA 70005, (504) 837-6970) where she has been Art Director since 1990. She and Richmond Printing have produced numerous documents for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Richmond printing has contributed annually to the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation's Back to the Beach Festival and party.

©1998 Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

Lessons on the Lake is published by the
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
Metairie, LA