Sharon Locke
Dr. Locke is professor of environmental sciences at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she teaches courses in environmental education, sustainability, and watershed management. Her main interest is community-engaged research, where universities partner with community organizations, schools, and local governments to solve environmental problems through collaboration. Through these partnerships, her students have developed city greenhouse gas inventories, assessed air and soil quality, and conducted public outreach on water resource management. Dr. Locke received her PhD from the University of Minnesota's Limnological Research Center, where she studied long-term climate and lake-groundwater interactions. Dr. Locke holds global leadership roles in geoscience education and was recognized with Fulbright Specialist awards to Indonesia and Nepal to conduct science education research and teaching.
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