Curriculum Vitae: Cynthia Updegrave, pg 1
Cynthia Updegrave
Curriculum Vitae
717 N 73rd Street
Seattle, WA98103USA
206-330-4917
Professional Profile:
Creative leadership in interdisciplinaryclassroom, field teaching and curriculum development focused on environmental history, urban land use issues, and restoration ecology, with emphasis on collaborative learning in local communities and learning community development. Passion for mentoringin research and pedagogy. Research focused on Pacific Northwest seismic history, ecology and the biogeographical aspects of regional floras.
SKILLS:
Member of an interdisciplinary paleoecological research team, with training in field coring techniques and bio-stratigraphy; pollen, seed, leaf and root identification; and scanning electron microscope photography. Botanical, biogeographic, and ecological knowledge of the floras of the diverse ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.
EDUCATION:
Masters of Science in Biology for Teachers and Educators, University of Washington, 2007.
Research, “1200 years of history at the DuwamishRiver mouth”, an interdisciplinary paleoecological study; Committee Chair Prof. Estella Leopold, Committee members, Dr. Brian Atwater and Dr Brian Sherrod, adviser Helen Buttemer.
Research emphasis: Ecology, Paleoecology and Environmental History, special focuson Bioregional Education.
Restoration Ecology Certificate, 2005.
University of Washington’s Restoration Ecology Network, Seattle
Post-baccalaureate courses and research in Botany,University of Washington, 1991-1994.
Developed skills in scientific research,which resulted in publications, and a presentation awarded the Best Graduate Paper at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Emphasis on Paleoecology. Estella Leopold Lab.
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, West ChesterUniversity,1991.
Studies in Classics, the History of Ideas and Aesthetics.
Early Entrance; National Freshman Honor Society; Philosophy Department tutor; WCU Chapter President Phi Sigma Tau, the National Philosophy Honor Society
ClassRoom Teaching Experience:
Instructor: Bioregional Studies: the DuwamishRiver, Baccalaureate Completion Program, BAC 412.AntiochUniversity, Seattle, Spring 2008.3-4 credits.
Integrated interdisciplinary classroom and field studies emphasizing the environmental history of the DuwamishRiver and multiple ways of knowing, including nature journaling, art, and experiential learning towards visioning the future of the river. Responsible for field logistics, lectures, portfolio evaluation and narrative assessment.
Instructor:Environmental Crisis and Environmental Response, CEP 302. UW Seattle, Winter 2003 through 2008. 5 credits.
- “Visioning the DuwamishRiver” community-based Superfund cleanup process2008
- The Earth Charter and Cascadia: Critical Pedagogy of Place 2007, 2006
- Seattle’s Light Rail Corridor 2005
- The Duwamish River 2004
- Lake Washington 2003
Created interdisciplinary case studies of the local environment towards developing an understanding of the processes that have created our local environments, Pacific Northwest Ecology and Urban Ecology. Emphasis on democratic learning communities, student centered teaching methods and experiential learning. Responsible for discussion leadership, evaluation of written work, student primary research projects guidance, field trip logistics and narrative evaluation of student performance.
Instructor: Reading for Social Change, CEP 498.UW Seattle, 2007 & 2008. 2 credits.
- What is Bioregionalism?Winter 2008
- Alternative Educational Theories: Critical PedagogySpring 2007
- Global PovertyWinter 2007
Collaborated with students in designing an award winning course series. Responsible for student mentoring, discussion leadership, selection of readings,written work review and managing annotated bibliography and group paper.
Instructor:Humans in the Environment: Introduction to Environmental Research Methodology,UW International Outreach Program for International Students. UW Seattle, Autumn 2007. 3 credits.
Integrated community-based research module for students in the urban environment with core curriculum studies. Responsible for teaching research methods, supervising written research and oral presentations.
Instructor:Creative Leadership, CEP 498. UW Seattle, Autumn 2007, 2 credits.
Created and coordinated a workshop series emphasizing leadership, learning community development, discussion, and facilitation skill development.
Instructor:Old-growthForest Ecology, Baccalaureate Completion Program, BAC 312. AntiochUniversity, Seattle, Spring 2006, 3 credits.
Integrated field and classroom learning in an interdisciplinary course emphasizing the ecology of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and management of our regional forests. The course culminated with field studies at the Wind RiverExperimentalForest in the Columbia River Gorge, using the 250-foot high canopy crane and emphasizes multiple ways of knowing, including nature journaling and art-based perceptual ecology. Responsible for field logistics, lectures, portfolio evaluation and narrative assessment.
Collaborator and guest lecturer: Introduction to CEP, CEP 200. UW Seattle Autumn 2005 through 2007.
Advised and implemented lectures, seminar discussion and field based units focused on the environmental and cultural history of Seattle, with emphasis on local and global environmental justice issues.
TA Conference Workshop Facilitator:UW’s Annual TA Conference, UW Seattle, Fall 2004.
Designed and led workshops for incoming TA’s on developing Learning Communities, Problem-based Learning and Discussion Leadership.
Teaching Assistant:Origins of Our Modern Floras,Botany 443, UW Seattle, Autumn 2002 and 2000.
Assisted professor in teaching Botany, Floristics, Paleoecology and Biogeography of the past 65 million years, includes the origins of the major biomes on earth, offered to undergraduate and graduate students. Assisted with laboratories, student research, lecture and exam preparation, course and field trip logistics and grading. Prof. Estella Leopold.
Teaching Assistant: Plant Communities: Restoration and Resilience, Botany333. UW Seattle, Autumn 2002.
Helped professor in teaching restoration and management strategies; which include managing for natural disturbance regimes, for the major biomes: temperate forests, tall and bunch grass prairies, steppe, desert, tundra and rainforests. Assisted with student research, lecture and exam preparation, course and field trip logistics and grading. Prof. Estella Leopold.
Teaching Assistant:Land Use and Water Quality Issues of Puget Sound, Biology 226,UW Seattle, Spring 2000& 1998.
Collaborated with and filled in for professor for field based learning course based on developing scientific literacy on local environmental issues, and increasing understanding about the complexity of resolving issues with multiple stakeholders. Coordinated with tribes, agencies and citizen led movements.Responsible for facilitating discussion of current scientific papers, student research, writing, presentations, examinations, and day-long trip logistics and lessons. Prof. Estella Leopold
FIELD TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Instructor: Humans in the Environment:Introduction to Environmental Research Methodology, UW International Outreach Program for International Students. UW Seattle, Early Fall Start, 2007. 2 credits.
Coordinated and taught laboratory and field-based research modules for students in the natural and urban environments of the Pacific Northwest. Responsible for instruction, field and laboratory instruction and student evaluations.
Instructor: Humans in the Environment: Introduction to Pacific Northwest Regional Ecology, UW International Outreach Program for International Students. UW Seattle, Early Fall Start, 2007. 3 credits.
Created and led field based, intensive introduction to thelandscape,plants, animals, and habitats of thePacific Northwest. Introducedstudents to scientists, concepts, and currentissues in restoration ecology, conservation, and environmental studies; providing them with broader, integrative, ecological perspectives. Responsible for field logistics, curriculum integration, teaching, and student evaluations.
Instructor:Bioregional field studies, CEP 498. UW Seattle, Summer 2007 and 2008, 5 credits.(Integrated with CEP’s Summer Sustainability series)
Designed month-long, five-credit intensive field-based course about Puget Sound, with special focus on “Visioning the DuwamishRiver” community-based Superfund cleanup process. Responsible for academic leadership: facilitating discussion of current scientific papers, student research, writing, presentations, examinations, and day-long trip logistics and lessons.
Naturalist in Residence:North Cascades Institute Naturalists Retreat: Reading the Land, Sharing its Stories July 9 – 13, 2007.
Developed and led intensive all-day field learning experiences in the NorthCascadesNational Park, and presented an evening program on connecting to urban landscapes.
Field Instructor: NorthwestIndianCollege, 2005 through 2007
Collaborated in the developing field-based studies using the Cascadia subduction zone related native stories and stratigraphic exploration of tsunami deposits at Discovery Bay, Washington.
Instructor:Land Use and Water Quality Issues of Puget Sound, Biology 226,UW Seattle, Summer 2002 through 2006.
Each year, created a different combination of field-learning experiences during a month-long, five-credit intensive course for summer session which explored the natural and environmental history of Puget Sound, developed scientific literacy on local environmental issues, and increased the understanding of the complexity of resolving issues with multiple stakeholders. Coordinated with tribes, agencies and citizen-led groups.Responsible for academic leadership: facilitating discussion of current scientific papers, student research, writing, presentations, examinations, and day-long trip logistics and lessons, also responsible for hiring and mentoring of Teaching Assistant.
Field Instructor: Introductory Biology for Majors, Biodiversity field trips, Biology 180.UW, Seattle 2003 through 2006
Designed and led multiple day-long field-based labs on biodiversity featuring the botany, biogeography and natural history of montane, alpine, forested, riparian, estuarine, wetland, prairie and sagebrush-steppe ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest combined with human modifications, management strategies and restoration efforts.
Co-Instructor:Human Systems in the Pacific Northwest Bioregion Program, UW Program on the Environment and International Outreach Program for International students. UW Seattle, Summer, 2005.
Integrated environmental curriculum for English as second language students and field based units in an intensive three-week course emphasizing Pacific Northwest Environments, Cultural Diversity in the Puget Sound, and Urban Ecology.
Co-Instructor: Old-growth forest and prairie Ecology units for the NorthCascadesInstituteGraduateProgramFieldSchool,2004 through 2007
Created and co-led old-growth forest, prairie and fire ecology; field methods of forestry study and restoration of prairies methods in Seward Park and Shaw Island with Prof. Estella Leopold.
Collaborator:Pacific Northwest Ecosystems and Cultures: Pacific Northwest Earthquakes: Evidence in Native Myth and Tradition National Science Foundation’s Teacher’s Chautauqua, Summer,2006 & 2005.
Contributed paleobotanical, stratigraphic, ecological and botanical knowledge to this field based course on Native American oral traditions about landscape-altering events in Cascadia (Washington, Oregon and British Columbia) within the context of current geologic knowledge, placing Native stories that may be about past large earthquakes side-by-side with current information on seismic hazards in Cascadia as understood through modern techniques such as paleoseismology, LIDAR and GPS. With Seismologist Ruth Ludwin.
LAB TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Teaching Assistant:Introduction to Plant Biology, Botany 110. UW Seattle, Winter 2002.
Responsible for laboratory component: instructed and assisted students with basic experiments, microscopy and descriptive exercises in plant biology. Included cell structure, photosynthesis, basic physiology, genetics, and phylogenies. Responsibilities included tutoring lecture material and on-campus field trips. Prof. Roger del Moral
PeerTeaching Assistant: Plant Identification, Botany 113. Spring 1992.
Undergraduate laboratory teaching position. Responsible for collection of plant material, assisting with plant identification labs and grading. Prof. Melinda Denton
MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE:
Expertise in: developing pedagogical skills in students and educators; assisting undergraduates and graduates in research pursuits; developing research and scholarship proposals; expanding primary research skills, including historic, community and laboratory techniques;facilitation of community collaboration including internship identification and research relationships; senior capstone project design, implementation, writing and presentation; includes local and international scope.
Faculty adviser for:
Independent undergraduate studies at UW and AntiochUniversity, Seattle 2004-2008
Senior Capstone Research Projects in CEP 2004-2008
University of Washington Libraries Undergraduate Research Award recipient 2007
Mary Gates Leadership Scholarship Recipients 2004-2008
Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Symposium 2004-2006
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:
Environmental Education Consultant:The EvergreenSchool.2003 –2008& Ballard High School 2008
Designed interdisciplinary environmental, social and political science curriculum for in-class learning and led day and week-long field components for High School & Middle School students in Puget Sound watersheds.
Field consultant: An Evaluation of Salt-Marsh Restoration in Puget Sound.National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. 2005
Provided botanical expertise in field studies conducted to evaluate the state of salt marsh restorations in urban areas in Puget Sound. Work included use of survey equipment to establish transects, determination of High High water, native and non-native plant identification and data collection. Principal Investigator Prof. Kern Ewing.
Field Consultant:Wetland and Environmental Consulting,Cooke Scientific Services, Dr. Sarah S. Cooke, Summer2000.
Field botanist in wetland consulting firm, work included field identification of native and non native vegetation, wetland delineation, and field monitoring. Office work included writing consulting and monitoring reports, researching and writing biological assessment reports and researching environmental impact statements.
Paleobotanical Consultant:Puget Trough core and macrofossil analysis and identification.Seattle Fault Risk Assessment, USGS, Dr. Brian Sherrod 1998-1999
Responsible for stratigraphical drawings, sampling of cores for diatoms, pollen, macrofossils and tephra, and macrofossil identification. Holocene material.
Paleobotanical Consultant:Lake Washington and SammamishRiver Delta core and macrofossil analysis and identification; 6000 year record. University of Connecticut, Prof. Robert Thorson 1996-1997
Responsible for coring, stratigraphical drawings, sampling of cores for diatoms, pollen, macrofossils and tephra, and macrofossil identification. Holocene material.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Masters research: 1200 years of history at the DuwamishRiver mouth, UW, 2003-2007
Paleobotanical and historic study of the Duwamish River Estuary focused on the recent seismic history. Research included field stratigraphy, core collection and analysis; multidisciplinary historic vegetation reconstruction; archeological review; macrofossil and pollen analysis and identification; and ecological studies. Dr. Brian Atwater, Prof. Estella Leopold and Dr. Brian Sherrod
Research Assitant:Paleoecological study of Lake Washington, UW, 1993-1994
Core collection; biostratigraphy; and macrofossil analysis and identification; 6000 year record. Prof. Estella Leopold
Research Assistant:Paleocological study of Puget Trough salt marsh cores to identify and date events on the Seattle Fault-formerly known as the King Dome Fault.1991-1993
Core collection, biostratigraphy, macrofossil analysis and identification. Prof. Estella Leopold
Pollen Preparations:Tertiary, Quaternary and Modern,UW, Prof. Estella Leopold 1991-1993
Sampling, processing, slide preparation, collection organization, photography, and identification.
cURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT:
Program design for Humans in the Environment, UW International Outreach Program for International Students.UW, Seattle.Early Fall Start and Autumn 2007
Coordinated and integrated curriculum for English as second language students and field based units in an intensive four month program emphasizing Pacific Northwest Environments, Cultural Diversity in the Puget Sound, and Urban Ecology.
Member of working groupto develop thecore learning outcomes for sustainability through Curriculum for the Bioregion, 2007-2008
Participated in the 20th Annual Western Washington Curriculum Planning Retreat Sustainability across the Curriculum project defining through the WashingtonCenter for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education’s May 10-11, 2007
Member of Biology Faculty Working Group to develop Curriculum for the Bioregion. 2007- 2008
Participated in the WashingtonCenter for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education’s Curriculum for the Bioregion:Biology Faculty Learning Community Curriculum Design Retreat. October 11 & 12, 2007.
Teaching and Writing Native Case Studies Workshop.The Evergreen State College. June 2007.
Participated in a four day workshop focused on teaching and writing cases from a Native point of view on issues important to contemporary Native communities, with an emphasis on pedagogical strategies for using cases with collaborative learning and in both face-to-face and online courses.
Research Assistantship: Bioregional Curriculum Design for Puget Sound, UW Seattle, 2002.
Developed field-based curriculum modules that follow water through time and space as it falls from the mountains to the sound, experiencing the cumulative impacts of increased urbanization.
publications:
Is the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora Theory Valid? Estella B. Leopold, Alan C. Yen,and Tracy Fuentes, Cindy Updegrave, Katie Maier and Marie McMasters. (Submitted), Annals of the MissouriBotanical Garden.
Fourteen Hundred Years of history at the Duwamish River Mouth, GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 39, No. 4 2007
Biogeography of Seldovian Plant Taxa, Past and Present, along the Pacific Rim. (Abstract) E. Leopold, A. Yen, C. Updegrave, K. Maier, T. Fuentes and M. McMaster. Bering Land Bridge Conference (NSF sponsored) Sept. 23, 1997 Florissant, Colorado.
Pollen and Spores Characteristic of Eocene Sediments at Republic, Washington. E. Leopold, C. Updegrave and K. Maier. Washington Geology, vol 24, no. 2, June 1996
Is the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora Theory Valid? (Abstract) E. Leopold, A. Yen, C. Updegrave, K. Maier, T. Fuentes and M. McMaster. Pacific Division AAAS Annual Meeting, Missoula, Montana, 1992. Best graduate student paper award.
presentations:
Fourteen Hundred Years of history at the Duwamish River Mouth. GSA Cordilleran Section:Quaternary and Tertiary Records of Past Environments, May 5, 2007.
The Earth Charter: a place-based educational and research project. Community College Women’s Conference, “Creative Leadership across Cultures and Generations," EdmondsCommunity College, March 17, 2007.
Native stories about Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes and scientific paleoseismic methods, co-presented with Ruth Ludwin at Tribal: Reservation Based/ Community Determined Program Baccalaureate degree program, The Evergreen State College, February 24, 2007.
The Earth Charterand Critical Place-based Inquiry.The WashingtonCenter for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education: Teaching for a Sustainable Future, the EvergreenState College - Tacoma Campus, November, 2006.
A 2000 year vegetation history at the mouth of the DuwamishRiver; a record of uplift on the Seattle Fault.The Biology Department Graduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, November, 2006.