CAROL TANG - CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone:  415-750-7447     Fax:  415-750-7372     Email:  ctang@calacademy.org

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for facilitating public outreach component at the California Academy of Sciences through exhibit development, lectures, workshops, outreach and professional development.

Related Experience Summary

• Senior Science Educator (CAS) currently conducting astrobiology education and outreach; oversees Docent, Volunteer, Early Childhood, Teacher Services, Careers in Science and Outreach programs.
• NASA Astrobiology Science Strategy Group for Mars Exploration (MEPAG) 2002 – present.
• NAI Co-investigator, Arizona State University for Mexican thermal spring systems.

Employment History

Assistant Chair, Education/Senior Science Educator, CAS,  2000-present
Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences, Arizona State University, 1997-2001
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, 1996-1997

Education

B.A. Paleontology, UC Berkeley, 1989
MS Geological Sciences, U. of Southern California, 1993
Ph.D. Geological Sciences, U. of Southern California, 1996

Professional Societies

Editorial Boards:  Geology, Veliger
President-elect, Pacific Section-Society for Sedimentary Geology, 2002-present
President, Pacific Section Paleontological Society
Grants-in-aid committee member, Geological Society of America

Awards and Honors

Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, 2002
UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996
USC Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 1992
USC Merit Fellowship, 1992

Selected Relevant Publications

Tang, Carol M., and Roopnarine, Peter D., in press. Complex morphological variability in complex ecosystems: thermal spring gastropods of Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico. (Invited Astrobiology)

Tang, Carol M, 2001.  Stability in ecological and paleoecological systems: variability at both short and long time-scales, In: Allmon, W.D., and Bottjer, D.J. (eds.), Evolutionary paleoecology: the ecological context of macroevolutionary change, Columbia University Press. p. 63-81. (Invited)

Tang, Carol M., and Bottjer, David J., 1996.  Long-term faunal stasis without evolutionary coordination: Jurassic benthic marine paleocommunities, western interior, U.S.A. Geology, v. 24, p. 815-818.

Tang, Carol M., 2002 Using Astrobiology to Bridge "Earth, Ocean, Space" at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 Abstracts, p. 287

Danly, Laura, Tang, Carol, and Weiss, Martin., 2002.  From ET to AB: Public Perceptions of Astrobiology and How Museums Can Help, Astrobiology Science Conference 2002 Abstracts, p. 122.  (Invited)

Wang, B., Tang, C.M., Kinyon, J., Laws, J.M., and Burke, M.G., 2002.  Fostering environmental stewardship with a student-driven, long-term ecological monitoring project: The Mountain Lake Research Project at the California Academy of Sciences. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, Paper 229-4.

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