Wendy L. Taylor
Dr. Wendy Taylor serves in several capacities for the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University. She is the Instructional Specialist Coordinator for the Mars Student Imaging Project (MSIP) where she works with students from around the country using the THEMIS camera to image and explore Mars. Wendy also serves as Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Meteorite Studies and NASA's upcoming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. In addition to teaching, she assists with the creation of new Standards-based curricula and is currently developing several public exhibits that will highlight the exploration of the Moon, Mars, and meteorites.
Before joining the ASU Mars Education team, Wendy worked as Curriculum Specialist and Program Developer for The Field Museum's permanent exhibition, Evolving Planet. She developed inquiry-based materials for the exhibition, including educator guides, experience boxes, docent training materials, and on-line interactives. Working as a liaison between education and research, Wendy also actively facilitated a variety of educator workshops, family programs, and field trips.
Wendy has a Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral Degree in Geology and is a specialist in the areas of invertebrate paleontology and taphonomy (fossil preservation). She has served as a collections manager, informal educator, and exhibit developer at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York and The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to her collections and education experience, Wendy worked for three years as Project Manager for an
internationally known paleontologist and National Geographic Society (NGS) Explorer in Residence, Dr. Paul Sereno (University of Chicago). She handled the logistics for international dinosaur expeditions (Africa, India, and China), managed grant accounts, cultivated donors, and supervised a fossil preparation laboratory.
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