Cynthia Updegrave - University of Washington



Cynthia Updegrave

Curriculum Vitae

717 N 73rd Street

Seattle, WA 98103 USA

cupdegra@u.washington.edu

206-330-4917

Professional Profile:

Creative leadership in interdisciplinary classroom, 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 mentoring in 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 Duwamish River 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 focus on 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 Chester University, 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 Duwamish River, Baccalaureate Completion Program, BAC 412. Antioch University, Seattle, Spring 2008. 3-4 credits.

Integrated interdisciplinary classroom and field studies emphasizing the environmental history of the Duwamish River 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 Duwamish River” community-based Superfund cleanup process 2008

• 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 Pedagogy Spring 2007

• Global Poverty Winter 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-growth Forest Ecology, Baccalaureate Completion Program, BAC 312. Antioch University, 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 River Experimental Forest 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, Botany 333. 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 the landscape, plants, animals, and habitats of the Pacific Northwest. Introduced students to scientists, concepts, and current issues 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 Duwamish River” 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 North Cascades National Park, and presented an evening program on connecting to urban landscapes.

Field Instructor: Northwest Indian College, 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 North Cascades Institute Graduate Program Field School, 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

Peer Teaching 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 Antioch University, 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 Evergreen School. 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, Summer 2000.

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 Sammamish River 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 Duwamish River 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 group to develop the core 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 Washington Center 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 Washington Center 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 Missouri Botanical 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," Edmonds Community 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 Charter and Critical Place-based Inquiry. The Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education: Teaching for a Sustainable Future, the Evergreen State College - Tacoma Campus, November, 2006.

A 2000 year vegetation history at the mouth of the Duwamish River; a record of uplift on the Seattle Fault. The Biology Department Graduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, November, 2006.

Engaging Students in Issues of Health and Justice with Linn Nelson, Kate Davies and Jean MacGregor. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Inaugural Conference: The Role of Higher Education in Creating a Sustainable World, Tempe, Arizona, October 2006.

Honors and Awards:

Faculty advisor for award winning collaborative course: Reading for Social Change: Alternative Educational Theories, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Annual Awards, the Community, Environment and Planning Program, UW, Spring 2007.

Faculty mentor for University of Washington Libraries Undergraduate Research Award recipient, 2007

Faculty Teaching Award Recipient, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Annual Awards, the Community, Environment and Planning Program, 2005

Best graduate student paper award 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

Non-Profit board service

Board Member of Just Health Action, elected for 2 year appointment, 2008

This organization promotes dialogue, debate, and action around the ways in which political, economic, and social inequalities interact to affect the health of our society. JHA educates youth and adults about the links between social justice and health equity so that they will use that knowledge to advocate for social change.

Community leadership and Service:

Tarboo Watershed Plant-a-thon Team Coordinator 2008 through 2006

Wetland and Stream Corridor Restoration with the Evergreen School, Shoreline, WA, Parent Coordinator, 2008-2001

Juror CEP Program Senior Project Presentations 2007 through 2004

Facilitated Symposium for Community Development (CD) Program of Portland State University and CEP Program UW April 20-21, 2007

Facilitated working relationship between Antioch University Seattle’s Center for Creative Change Graduate Students and CEP Program UW Seattle 2007

Facilitation of collaborative Visioning partnership between University of Washington students, the community and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition 2007-2008

Kruckeberg Botanical Garden Foundation Curriculum Development for K-12 students, 2006 and 2005

Organized student participation in local restoration and plant salvage events: Duwamish River, the Evergreen School, the Cedar River Watershed, and the Tarboo Watershed 2008-2001

Designed and Directed Edible Schoolyard Service Learning Project with UW Students and Seattle Girls’ School 2004-2005

Pomegranate Center and UW student community building collaboration with a low-income housing development 2004

City of Seattle’s Office for Sustainability and UW student collaboration with Seattle Public Utilities to survey underserved neighborhoods in Seattle 2004

Volunteer at Marra Farm with Seattle Youth Garden Works; and with Lettuce Link’s educational outreach program for K-8 students

Coursework:

Botany: Plant Identification, Plant Biology, Plant propagation, Origin of Modern floras, Plant morphology, Pollen Indentifcation

Biology: Ethnobiology, Wildlife Toxicology, Electron Microscope, Biological Indicators

Ecology: Intro Ecology, Plant communities of Western Washington, Old growth forest ecology and ecosystem management, Landscape ecology

Restoration Ecology: year-long Capstone

References:

| | | |

|Estella B. Leopold |Jerry Franklin |Dennis M. Ryan |

|Professor, Biology |Professor, Forestry |Associate Professor, Urban Design & Planning |

|University of Washington |University of Washington |University of Washington |

|206 685-1151 |206 543-2138 & 206 543-4853 |206 543-8293 |

|eleopold@u.washington.edu |jff@u.washington.edu |frango@u.washington.edu |

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