Email: sgilman@coastal.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. Biological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1992 “Bioenergetics of sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) on Georges Bank”
• B.A. Biology, Western Maryland College, 1985 (Now called McDaniel College)

CV: pdf link

Biology Courses Taught:

Undergraduate:

• Biology 121: Biological Science I Lab
• Biology 122: Biological Science II
• Biology 122: Biological Science II Lab
• Biology 101: The Science of Life
• Biology 365: Evolution
• Biology 370: Principles of Ecology Lab
• Biology 436: Animal Behavior
• Biology 485: Vertebrate Zoology

Graduate

• Biology 585: Vertebrate Zoology
• Biology 536: Animal Behavior
• Biology 596: History of Biology
• CMWS 602: Ecological Processes in Coastal Wetlands
• Biology 778: Wetland Ecology for Teachers
• Biology 770: Marine Science for Elementary and Middle School Teachers

Research and Scientific Interests:

• Marine/Environmental Education -Evaluation
• Undergraduate Science Education -Evalution
• K-12 Science Education -Evaluation
• Science Education for In-Service Teachers -Evaluation
• Marine Fish Ecology

Professional Memberships:

• National Science Teacher Association
• National Association of Biology Teachers
• National Marine Education Association

Current and Recent External Grant Funding:

Gilman, CS, RF Young, KS Godwin, SL Gilman, AM Hitt. 2008. Gk-12 Fellows Linking
Marine and Wetland Research with Science Education in Coastal Carolina Schools. $2,294,030, National Science Foundation. June 2008-May 2013. http://kingfish.coastal.edu/GK-12/

Gilman, S. L., K. Fuss, A. O’Brien-Gayes. 2007. Building and Applying Remotely Operative
Vehicles to Integrate STEM Research into the Freshmen Experience. $8000, SC Space Grant Consortium, May 2007-April 2008.

Luken, James O. and Sharon L. Gilman.  2006. Coastal Quest:  Developing a Learnscape Approach for Edutourism.  $74,611, National Science Foundation, Jan. 2006-Dec. 2007

Selected Publications:

Gilman, Sharon L. and Martha C. Fout. 2017. A bold experiment: teachers team with scientists to learn Next Generation Science Standards. The Learning Professional 38(1): 24-29.

Gilman, Sharon Larimer, Hitt, Austin M, and Gilman, C.  2015.  Training master's-level graduate students to use inquiry instruction to teach middle-level and high-school science coneepts. School Science and Mathematics 115(4): 155-167.

Gilman, Sharon, and Cynthia Lilly. 2013. Having pHun with soils. Science Scope, May/April: 61-67.

Gilman, Sharon L.  2006.  Do On-Line Labs Work:  as assessment of an on-line lab on cell division.  American Biology Teacher. http://www.nabt.org/sites/S1/File/pdf/068-09-0023.pdf

Gilman, Sharon Larimer and Florence Eliza Glaze.  2005.   How science survived:  medieval manuscripts as fossils.  Science 207:  1208-1209.

Gilman, Sharon L. and Richard Valliere.  2003.  The time-distance-direction navigation connection.  Current:  J. of Marine Educ. 19(3):  27-31.

Libes, S.M.,  J.T. Bennett, S.L. Gilman, V.L. Dunham, and J.P. Idoux.  2004  Undergraduate institutions as catalysts for integrating research across disciplines and communities of learners. In:  Kauffman, Linda and Janet Stocks (eds.),  Reinvigorating the undergraduate experience:  successful models supported by NSF’s AIRE/RAIRE Program.  Council on Undergraduate Research. http://www.cur.org/publications/rueril.asp.  ISBN #0-941933-26-1.

Durbin, E.G., R.G. Campbell, S.L. Gilman, and A.G. Durbin.  1995.  Diel feeding behavior and ingestion rate in the copepod Calanus finmarchicus  in the southern Gulf of Maine during late spring. Continental Shelf  Research  15(4/5):  539-570.

Durbin, E.G., S.L. Gilman, R.G. Campbell, and A.G. Durbin.  1995.  Abundance, biomass,vertical migration, and estimated development rate of the copepod Calanus  finmarchicus  in the southern Gulf of Maine during late spring.  Continental Shelf Research  15(4/5):  571-591.

Gilman, S.L.  1994.  An energy budget for sand lance, Ammodytes dubius, on Georges Bank, 1977-1986.  Fishery Bulletin.  92(3):647-654.