Dave Gosselin, professor of Earth science and director of UNL's environmental studies program, has been re-elected as a Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) executive committee member at-large for the October 2014 to September 2016 term.
"CEDD is one of the best and most relevant professional groups in which I participate," Gosselin said. "I am proud of CEDD's accomplishments since attending my first summer 13 years ago as the representative of UNL. I am glad to have contributed to the leadership provided by executive committee since 2008."
CEDD is part of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). Gosselin has previously served three two-year terms on the CEDD executive committee and has chaired the CEDD curriculum committee.
"In this role, I coordinated the implementation of the strategic plan to Enhance Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Curricula," Gosselin said. "This resulted in a paper that highlights the different ways in which sustainability has been integrated into the curriculum at different institutions of higher education."
The plan also spurred the multi-institutional "Employing Model-Based Reasoning in Socio-Environmental Synthesis" (EMBeRS) working group, funded by the National Center for Socio-Environmental Synthesis.
"The goal of this group is to improve transdisciplinary sustainability research," Gosselin said. "I have worked closely with Shirley Vincent, director of educational research, to develop collaboration among its members as well as with other groups and organizations."
Gosselin's CEDD involvement has also included evaluating environmental workforce issues, developing learning outcomes, collaborating with natural resources and environmental organizations, among other responsibilities.
"I can say without a doubt that CEDD meetings and activities always energize me to think about what I am doing for my program and its students in new ways," he said.
— Mekita Rivas, Natural Resources