Workshop Management

The Space Science Institute, under the direction of P. B. Dusenbery (PI), is responsible for the overall management of the project. The workshop Development Team consists of the PI along with Ramon Lopez, Cherilynn Morrow, and Susan Solari. The Co-PIs, Lopez and Morrow, assist the PI in workshop development including creating the agenda, workshop presentations, and follow-up support. R. Lopez will be the chief facilitator of the workshop. He has assumed this role in the previously funded NASA workshops. He has a national reputation in facilitating workshops for scientists and engineers especially in his role as Education Director for the American Physical

Society where he has developed a series of Leadership Institutes around the country. C. Morrow (SSI's Manager, Education & Outreach) is primarily responsible for developing the follow-up support system and overseeing the evaluation project. The mechanics of the workshops such as soliciting participants, registrations, booking rooms, printing resource books etc. is handled by Susan Solari (SSI's Public Relations Manager) who has extensive experience in workshop development. Carl Wuth coordinates the financial aspects of the project.

Key Personnel

Dr. Paul B. Dusenbery is currently Executive Director of the Space Science Institute and is co-Director of the Technology Learning Center (TLC). Dr. Dusenbery has been active in a variety of areas in solar-terrestrial physics and has served on many committees that focus on both research and education. Currently he is chair of the Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA/AGU) Public Information Committee, a member of SPA's Education Committee, and a member of the Boulder Valley Connect Project Advisory Committee, part of Colorado's State Systemic Initiative, and Project Director for the NSF supported museum exhibitions Electric Space and MarsQuest .

Dr. Ramon E. Lopez holds positions as Associate Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, and Director, Education and Outreach Programs, The American Physical Society. His research interests are in magnetospheric and auroral physics. He has been a consultant to various education groups including the National Science Resources Center, where he was a part-time staff member working on several projects including Science and Technology for Children. He is the Associate Director of the Electric Space museum exhibition. His expertise, background, and contacts make him uniquely suited to serve on the Project Development Team.

Dr. Cherilynn Morrow currently serves as Education Manager at the Space Science Institute. Morrow recently spent two years as a Visiting Senior Scientist at NASA Headquarters where she was responsible for developing policies and strategies to engage the talented people, research facilities and data resources of the space science research community in support of national education goals at all levels. Morrow is also an experienced astronomy and environmental science educator, workshop presenter, undergraduate curriculum developer and author.

Ms. Susan Solari is currently the Manager of Outreach Programs at the Space Science Institute and Manager of the Space Weather Outreach Program. She is the Program Director of the Colorado Space Education Initiative (CSEI). The CSEI program is a grassroots educational outreach program based on "teachers training teachers" utilizing space education. The model has been exported to nine additional states through the Aerospace States Association. The program has reached over 4,000 K-12 teachers. She spearheaded Challenger Center teacher workshops (Marsville-the Cosmic Village, and Mars City Alpha) in the state of Colorado and served as educational outreach coordinator for the Colorado Space Grant Consortium at the University of Colorado, Boulder.