Pennsylvania Sea Grant is Growing
On January 2, Pennsylvania Sea Grant opened a new office in Harrisburg. This office will focus on issues relating to the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay, as well as statewide aquatic invasive species issues. The new office will be staffed by Sara Grisé, who previously worked in the Erie office, and Sarah Whitney, who previously worked in the Chester office. The office will be located in the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission building on Elmerton Ave. in Harrisburg. This building is currently undergoing renovations and will be available for Sea Grant's use in March 2009.
Contact Information:
: : Sarah Whitney
Associate Director, Susquehanna River
Phone: 610-304-8753
E-mail: swhitney@psu.edu
: : Sara Grisé
Coastal Outreach Specialist
Phone: 814-602-4383
E-mail: sng121@psu.edu
Also growing is the number of staff members in the Erie Office.
- Karla Kaczmarek who joined Pennsylvania Sea Grant as a part-time coastal outreach specialist in May 2007 became full-time in May 2008. Karla graduated from Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Environmental Biology and a minor in GIS.
Karla's responsibilities include assisting staff with various GIS based projects; assisting in ecological studies related to the coastal areas and tributaries of Lake Erie; planning, developing, and implementing educational programs including Environmental Rediscoveries, a shipboard educational program to teach youth about Presque Isle Bay; and organizing and implementing a boat shrink-wrap recycling program for marinas in Pennsylvania.
Karla is the secretary of Pennsylvania Lake Erie Watershed Association and a member of the Smart Boating Clean Waters workgroup.
: : Contact Karla at 814.217.9020 or kmk32@psu.edu
- David Boughton serves as part-time maritime education specialist. David has 15 years of federal experience with both the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service in Washington, D.C and the Chesapeake Bay. Certified as a science and history teacher, David also has seven years of elementary and secondary environmental science teaching experience at five different school districts. David has a B.S. in Park and Recreation Management from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in Teaching from the College of Notre Dame.
David's duties include coordinating educational programs; developing partnerships with various education constituents; serving as liaison to the Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies; and collaborating with the Erie Maritime Museum to develop joint science initiatives.
: : Contact David at 814.217.9019 or dbb11@psu.edu
- Anna McCartney is the newest member of the team. She will serve as part-time communication specialist and assist with education programs for schools and the community. Anna has her B.S. in Education and has taught junior and senior high school general science, biology, physical science, chemistry, and ecology. She also served as the first education director for the local Erie public broadcasting station. For the last six years Anna has written extensively for the Erie Times-News and will continue to write a weekly environment page used by 6,000 students in area schools and read by thousands of Erie Times-News readers.
Many of Anna's programs and work as the Erie Times-News in Education (NIE) Coordinator have received national, state and local recognition and awards — from the White House to the National Newspaper Association, to the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the Erie Reading Council, and more.
The Great Lakes Invasion, a 16-page NIE educational supplement about invasive species in the Great Lakes and their effect on the environment that she wrote and edited in collaboration with Pennsylvania Sea Grant and Minnesota Sea Grant was published in a variety of newspapers around the Great Lakes. Because of her concern for the environment and community, Anna also serves on the board of the Pennsylvania Lake Erie Watershed Association.
: : Contact Anna at axm40@psu.edu or at 814-217-9011
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