Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Staff Bios
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Peter Blaze Corcoran, Director Professor of Environmental Studies and Environmental Education Peter Blaze Corcoran is Professor of Environmental Studies and Environmental Education at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he serves as Director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education. He has been a visiting professor in Australia and The Netherlands. He works extensively in international environmental education with special interest in the South Pacific Island Nations. He is among the founders of the Global Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership and has recently conducted their consultations with stakeholders in tertiary education in many regions of the world. He is Past President of North American Association for Environmental Education. He serves as Senior Fellow in Education for Sustainability at University Leaders for a Sustainable Future in Washington, DC, and is Senior Advisor to Earth Charter International in San Jose, Costa Rica. His most recent books are The Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World published in the Netherlands by Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Publishers in 2005 and Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Contestation, Critique, Practice, and Promise published in The Netherlands by Kluwer Academic Press in 2004.
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Anne Hartley Assistant Director, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education Anne Hartley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences and Program Leader in Environmental Studies. She arrived at FGCU in 2007, after four years on the faculty of the Environmental Studies Department at Florida International University in Miami. Hartley’s expertise lies in the area of global change ecology. Most recently, she studied the impact of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in Florida scrub oak forest on soil microbial processes involved in nitrogen cycling. She spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecosystems Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, studying the impact of elevated carbon dioxide and warming on plant growth and nutrient cycling in Swedish subarctic tundra. Hartley holds a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from Duke University, where as a NASA Global Change Fellow, she studied environmental controls on soil nitrogen cycling in the Chihuahuan desert of New Mexico. Her work for the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education includes the development of a multidisciplinary upper-level undergraduate course on campus sustainability.
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Brandon Hollingshead Brandon Hollingshead graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2005 with a major in environmental communication and a minor in literature. He is a member of the Earth Charter Youth Initiative Core Group and actively participated in the editing of the book The Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World (KIT Publishers 2005). Hollingshead studied under Terry Tempest Williams in the Environmental Humanities graduate program at University of Utah. In the Fall of 2007, He married his sweetie Becky Yost and that totally rules. At the Center, Brandon works as a consultant on research and editorial projects.
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Jordan Yingling Jordan Yingling was born in Bellevue, Ohio and is a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University. Jordan is the third boy in his family to graduate from FGCU, with a sister still enrolled. Jordan enjoys playing intramural sports on campus, as well as fishing and golfing. |
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Emily Porter Emily Porter is an Environmental Studies Graduate Student in the Department of Marine and Ecological Sciences at FGCU. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Emily volunteers at Barefoot Beach giving Interpretive Nature Talks on Florida's coastal ecosystems. She also assists with tracking and monitoring Sea Turtles during nesting season. She is a Florida Coastal Master Naturalist. One of Emily's roles at The Center is to assist Dr. Corcoran with promoting humane and sustainable food initiatives at FGCU. |
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Kate Pozeznik Kate Pozeznik is originally from Michigan but claims Southwest Florida as her home. She graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a Bachelor's degree in English and a minor in Education. Kate's passion for the natural world and pedagogy prompted her to continue her education at FGCU by pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Environmental Studies with a focus on environmental education. In addition to her work at the Center, Kate is a campus naturalist and enjoys sharing her love for, and knowledge of, the unique natural environments of Southwest Florida with fellow FGCU students. She enjoys snorkeling, reading environmental literature, facilitating connections between children and the ocean, traveling, cooking, collecting rocks and shells, and salvaging undesired furniture. Her favorite marine animal is currently the sea hare. |
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Andrew Stansell Andrew Stansell is going on his third year at FGCU with as an Environmental Studies major. He has pursued his passion for the environment since his childhood, through outdoor recreational activities near his home in Orlando. Andrew is currently focusing his attention on the field of environmental education and hopes to one day to run his own nature and environmental education center. |
