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Gwynne Rife, Ph.D. Professor of Biology and Education Year Started at UF: 1995 Contact Information   Office Location: 300 Davis Street #157 Telephone: 419-434-4724 E-mail: rife@findlay.edu

Credentials
	Ph.D., Bowling Green State University M.S., University of Southern Mississip M.A.T., Bowling Green State University B.S., Bowling Green State University

“My best hope for our students is that they leave here with the knowledge and skills they need to have a fullfilling professional life.” 

Contributor to Coral Reef Education Program (CREP)-an education initiative through NOAA and Project WET

Facilitator for Project Learning Tree, Project WET, Project Wild/Wild aquatic and member of the correlations program with the State of Ohio Science Standards

Consultant for the Ohio Board of Regents re: PDA technology in the classroom

Culminating Project director for over 20+ graduate projects for master of education program

Courses taught over last 3 years include-General AYA methods, Building Blocks in Science and Math for Early Childhood (undergraduate and graduate), Integrated Science Methods for Middle Childhood and Adolescent/Young Adult (graduate)

Developed and Designed six graduate courses for Professional Development in the area of Integrated Sciences for Teachers and Pre-service teachers (K–12)

Integrated Technology Activities

Online course certification program completor

Laptop Pilot Project Teaching–taught section where all student had laptops given to them for the term and used in class

On-line Teaching (Blackboard, Web CT, and Intermediate Web Developer)

HOBO logger systems (Data Loggers–won award for activities related to Research Methods course)

 
Corticulous tardigrades (water bears) of Hancock County (lichen associated)
Wetlands Biosurvey (specialty aquatic macroinvertebrates and zooplankton) (Defiance, Fulton, Van Wert counties)
Portage River Watershed Macroinvertebrate Communities


Rife, G. S. (in press) 2004. Fun in the Deep Sea: A fun inquiry with bioluminescence. Science Scope: National Science Teacher Association.

Rife, G. S. and D. Moody. 2004. Aquatic macroinvertebrate communities from the Portage River watershed (Wood County, Ohio) The Ohio Journal of Science.

Rife. G. S. and D. Moody 2003. Abstract in OAS–The Ohio Journal of Science. Vol 103.

Rife, Gwynne S. 1997. Gibraltar Island, Put-in-Bay, Ohio: Hot spot for Terrestrial Isopoda (Oniscoidea) Diversity. The Ohio Journal of Science. 97:2:A-30.

Rife, G. S. ed. 2003. Project BOLT Teacher Enhancement CD-ROM. The University of Fondly/Eisenhower Professional Development Program Educational Resource.

Rife, Gwynne S. 1993. A scanning electron microscopy study of cuticular structures in some Ohio isopods (Oniscoidea: Isopoda: Crustacea). Bowling Green State University Doctoral Dissertation.

Stong, C., G.S. Rife, and V. Chambers (eds). 1993. "Bringing the ocean into the classroom" Ocean Focus: Curriculum Ideas Grades K-12. National Science Foundation/The Marine Laboratory; Bowling Green State University.

Stoner, Gwynne A. 1988. Observations on the functional morphology and behavior of the tube-dwelling amphipod, Cerapus benthophilus Thomas and Heard, 1979 (Gammaridea: Corophiodea: Isyroceridae). University of Southern Mississippi Master's Thesis.