Teachers
 
 
Colette Dryden

Colette is the elementary science and math specialist for the Richland One School District in South Carolina and has taught both 3rd and 5th grade. Colette has wanted to be a teacher since she was in elementary school. Her interest in science came much later when she took a class in Environmental Geology in graduate school... because it was a free course... and found she LOVED it! Since taking that class, she received her Masters Degree in Science from the University of South Carolina.

Colette has participated in several research projects with the Helmuth Lab including traveling to Florida to do coral research as part of an Aquarius mission and Oregon to do rocky intertidal research. Colette continues her association with the Helmuth Lab by regularly lecturing on science education in Brian Helmuth's courses.

Brice Gill

Brice is a 7th grade science teacher at St. Andrews Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina. He was born in Illinois in 1973 and came to South Carolina in 1994 where he received his Bachelors of Science in 1996.  During his undergraduate career at the University of South Carolina, he worked in Dr. Deans lab on fish research.

Brice's association with Helmuth Lab started when he participated in the Rising Tide program in 2002. He was also an RET in 2003. This past year, graduate student Kim Schneider is a NSF K-12 Fellow in Brice's classroom.

 
Denise Strickland

Denise will be starting her first year at Richland Northeast High School in Columbia, South Carolina in August 2006. She completed her Master of Arts in Teaching in May 2006 and her undergraduate in Biology in 2003, both from the University of South Carolina.

Denise has worked with the Helmuth lab in many capacities, as a research assistant, quasi-lab manager, and now in an educational capacity.