At the beginning of the institute, we spent an entire day walking along an assigned section of the Beden’s Brook in the Stony-Brook Millstone Watershed. The assigned section is known as a "beat". We walked beat 4. On the day we were there, our tests showed a pretty healthy section of the brook.

I have been teaching middle school science in Vermillion, South Dakota for ten years. I have enjoyed many opportunities to learn and meet fellow teachers in summer programs like this.

Check out these programs I have been involved in.

American Physiological Society:

Cell-ebration: How Cells Work