Dr. Richard D. Konicek-Moran
Educator, Biologist, Author |
a Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Dick has been a science educator for the past 55 years teaching at all levels before finding a place at the University of Massachusetts School of Education in 1967.
He has given many staff development workshops in science education in Africa, China, South America and Europe as well as in the United States.
His area of research is children’s alternative conceptions in science and he has published papers in Phi Delta Kappan, Science Education, Science and Children and many other journals. Dick has published four books with NSTA Press on teaching science through inquiry entitled Everyday Science Mysteries, More Everyday Science Mysteries, Even More Everyday Science Mysteries and Yet More Everyday Science Mysteries.
Dick is the recipient of a University Distinguished Teaching Award and the NSTA Presidential Citation Award. |
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Dr. Kathleen Konicek-Moran
Botanical Illustrator |
a writer, editor and educator for 30 years, Kathleen also does botanical illustration and fine art in graphite, colored pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor. She has created trail guides and illustrations for trail signs in the Everglades National Park, and supplied botanical and scientific illustrations for textbooks.
She is currently working on a series of watercolor fruit and vegetable portraits entitled Art for the New Kitchen. These are a series of interrelated and sometimes humorous paintings that are sized to fit on small kitchen walls and between cupboards.
She will be exhibiting her works in a show entitled Beautiful Botanicals in the Amherst Chamber of Commerce Gallery, 28 Amity Street, Amherst MA during the month of May. There will be a reception during the Amherst Art Walk, Thursday, May 5, from 5:00 – 8:00 pm, with refreshments.
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Botanical Treasures of the Everglades - An Exhibition of Botanical Art |
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kathleen and Dick, have been recently featured at work researching plants in a cypress swamp habitat, in a video podcast shown on the National Park website. See:www.nps.gov (Cypress Cathedral)
Kathleen’s work was featured at the Coe Visitor’s Center of the Everglades National Park during the month of November 2009. Included were drawings and paintings of endangered orchids, lovely and threatened bromeliads and other exotic plants from the subtropical environment of the Everglades.
Kathleen has used the past eight winters as a volunteer in the Everglades National Park to find some of the Park’s most rare and fascinating plants. As a botanical illustrator, she presents her subjects in ways that educate the viewer, yet are artistically pleasing. She works in pencil, pen and ink and watercolor.
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Kathleen and Dick at Work in the Everglades
(Photo Courtesy of the Naptional Parks Service) |
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