MaryLynn Quartaroli

CP-LUHNA Contributor: "Leetso," the Yellow Monster: Uranium Mining on the Colorado Plateau

Senior Instructional Specialist, Northern Arizona University.

Ms. Quartaroli joined the Environmental Education Outreach Program office in June, 2000, bringing twelve years of experience as a science educator. In addition to teaching in public high schools, Ms. Quartaroli taught in a private middle school, which she co-founded, a charter middle school, a tribal grant school on the Navajo Nation, and at two community colleges. She also worked for 1½ years as the program coordinator for field experience placements of education majors at NAU. Her diverse background also includes providing geologic interpretation on 30 trips on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, conducting 25 continuing education workshops on northern Arizona geology for Elderhostel, and leading a 3-day Grand Canyon Field Institute workshop on “Canyons and Dinosaurs: A Geologic Excursion to Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert.” She has a M.S. and a B.S. in Geology from Northern Arizona University and a B.A. in Secondary Education (Drama and History) from the University of Houston. Ms. Quartaroli is pursuing an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at NAU, focusing on culturally and pedagogically appropriate environmental science instruction for native students.