Annette deCharon
Senior Marine Education Scientist
University of Maine
School of Marine Sciences, Ira C. Darling Marine Center
193 Clark's Cove Road
Walpole, ME 04573

Phone: 207.563.3146 x298
Email: annette.decharonATmaine.edu

Annette earned an M.S. degree in oceanography from Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. She began her career in ocean education / outreach at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as Education Lead for the TOPEX/Poseidon Mission. She is currently the Education Manager for the NASA Aquarius satellite mission, Director of the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence - Ocean Systems, and a member of the COSEE Council (Chair 2008-09).

Selected Publications

G. Lagerloef, F. Colomb, D. Le Vine, F. Wentz, S. Yueh, C. Ruf, J. Lilly, J. Gunn, Y. Chao, A. deCharon, G. Feldman, and C. Swift, 2008. The Aquarius / SAC-D Mission: Designed to Meet the Salinity Remote-Sensing Challenge, Oceanography, v. 21(1), 68-81.

C. Strang, A. deCharon, and S. Schoedinger, 2007. Can you be science literate without being ocean literate?, Current: The Journal of Marine Education, v. 23(1), 7-10.

A. deCharon, S. Etheridge, T. McDonnell Wysor, and M. Sieracki, 2006. HAB outreach using multimedia: integrating ocean research and education, African Journal Marine Science, 28(2): 459-463.

A. deCharon and J. Ryan, 2006. Phytopia: Upwelling Zones.

A. deCharon and M. Sieracki, 2003. Phytopia: Discovery of the Marine Ecosystem (educational CD-ROM).