Nancy Brannen Marsh inspecting the one-room school house at the Limon Heritage Museum, Limon, CO (Spring of 1997).
Nancy Brannen was born in Statesboro, Georgia in 1955 and grew up near Portal, Georgia. She received a B.S. in Education (1989), an M. S. in Science Education (1991) from Georgia Southern University, an Ed.S. from Georgia Southern University (1993), and is a Ph.D. student in the Center for Earth Science Education, Department of Geology, University of South Carolina.
As a scientist (Biology and Geology) and Science Educator, Nancy has taught at Georgia Southern University since 1988 teaching Biology Laboratories, Science Methods for Secondary and Primary Teachers, and co-taught Earth Science, Sea Turtle Conservation, and Natural History of the Georgia Coast. Nancy is currently a Science Teacher at Portal High School where she teaches Biology, Applied Biology, and Earth Science. Nancy and colleague Gale Bishop planned The St. Catherines Sea Turtle Conservation Program and initiated this holistic approach to integrating teaching, research, and service in 1992, teaching an annual Sea Turtle Conservation Program on St. Catherines Island, Georgia since then. Her current teaching emphasis includes hands-on, natural history-based science education, integrating emerging electronic technologies into classroom curricula.
Brannen's research includes Biology of the true bugs, Recent and fossil history of the sea turtles and a recently discovered fossilized Sea Turtle Nest from the Cretaceous of North America and, since 1990, the ecology and sedimentary signatures of nesting sea turtles. Bishop has published sixty papers in a variety of scientific journals, often in collaboration with colleagues from various parts of the country and continues to be active in winning grant funds to support research and Departmental initiatives.
Brannen has served as a regional leader in the development of science education and formed an educational collaborative in 1989 serving the needs of in-service and pre-service educators across Georgia.
Brannen has performed pro bono consulting for E. I. DuPont, taught in public school classroom (Northside School and Portal High School), taught Science Education and Earth Science at Georgia Southern, and codirects the St. Catherines Sea Turtle Conservation Program.
Brannen, N. A., Jeff Carter, Mike Harris, Charles Maley, Royce Hayes, Brad Winn, and Gale Bishop. 1993. Handbook for Sea Turtle Interns, Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Ga.), 78 p.
Brannen, N. A., and G. A. Bishop. 1993. Nesting traces of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta Linne), St. Catherines Island, Georgia: Implications for the fossil record. In K. M. Farrell, C. W. Hoffman, and V. J. Henry, JR. (eds.); Geomorphology and facies relationships of quaternary barrier island complexes near St. Marys, Georgia. Ga. Geol. Soc. Guidebooks 13(1): 30-36.
Darrell, J. H., II, N. A. Brannen, and G. A. Bishop 1993. The Beach. In K. M. Farrell, C. W. Hoffman, and V. J. Henry, JR. (eds.), Geomorphology and facies relationships of quaternary barrier island complexes near St. Marys, Georgia. Ga. Geol. Soc. Guidebooks 13(1): 16-18.
Bishop, G. A. and N. A. Marsh. 1994. The 1992 St. Catherines Sea Turtle Program: Nest validation by beach stratigraphy, p. 22-24, In Schroeder, B. A. and B. E. Witherington (compilers), Proceedings of the thirteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, NOAA Technical Memorandum MNFS-SEFSC 341.
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