Director, NEON, Inc. Board of Directors: Dr. Carol Brewer

Carol Brewer is the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Montana where she has active research programs in both plant physiological ecology and science education (www.bioed.org). She has served NEON in the past as a co-PI on the NEON Planning Grant, co-chair of the NEON Education Committee, and as a member of the NEON Senior Management Team and National Network Design Committee. She has directed many ecologist-educator partnership programs, including an NSF-funded GK-12 program at UM. Brewer is on the editorial boards of Conservation Biology (Associate Editor) and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, and was a Vice President of the Ecological Society of America. In addition to the NEON Board of Directors, she currently serves on Boards of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Biomimicry Institute, Earth and Sky Radio, and the Long Term Ecological Research Network. In 2007, she received both the Eugene P. Odum Award for Ecological Education from the Ecological Society of America and the Education Award from the American Institute of Biological Sciences.