Photo by Kathy Hart 



With "adaptation games" students learn about marine life 



things to see and do there besides 

 swimming in the ocean and watching 

 the bikinis go by." 



For Lundie every creature, tidal 

 marsh, dune and yaupon bush is a 

 lesson in coastal ecology. And she 

 doesn't mind standing shin-high in 

 muck to show a teacher a marsh 

 periwinkle inching up a blade of 

 cordgrass or an egret stalking its prey. 



"She believes that getting in there 

 and doing it or seeing it is the best ex- 

 perience a teacher can have," says Jo 

 Duckett, assistant program director 

 and education coordinator for the 

 science museums of Charlotte, and the 

 former science-resource teacher for the 

 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. 

 "With Lundie you experience marine 

 education. She lives marine education 

 and she makes you aware of marine 

 education as a holistic kind of thing." 



Besides working with regular 

 classroom teachers, Lundie has also 

 made a special effort to help vocational 

 and home economics teachers in- 

 troduce more marine topics to their 

 students. Carter Newsome, regional 

 coordinator for vocational education in 

 southeastern North Carolina, says 

 Lundie assisted in development of a 

 marine occupations curriculum, 

 arranged tours for vocational students 

 at marine laboratories and conducted a 

 workshop for marine occupations 

 teachers at Sea Grant's Aquaculture 

 Demonstration Project in Aurora. 



"She's really inspired our vocational 

 teachers to stretch out, to learn and to 

 grow," Newsome says. "Lundie has 

 promoted the scientific aspect of 

 vocational teaching. She's inspired 

 enthusiasm among our teachers and a 

 quest for up-to-date marine informa- 

 tion." 



When Lundie is not on the road giv- 

 ing workshops, she's often in her 

 Raleigh office on the phone to 

 teachers, science coordinators or 

 museum personnel wanting to know 

 such things as where they can find a 

 film strip on estuaries or a book on 

 marine mammals. 



"She's a connector," says Jo 

 Duckett. "Because of her knowledge of 

 her subject matter she can quickly 

 look at the needs of an individual or 

 group and match the resources, people 

 or materials, they need. That is a very 

 important skill." 



Jim Smith and Steve Benton of the 

 state Office of Coastal Management 

 recently put together a peat-mining 



workshop for teachers in Washington 

 County. They contacted Lundie for a 

 little help. "She told us how to present 

 our materials so we could be sure we 

 were communicating to the teachers 

 the information we wanted them to 

 know," Benton says. 



Lundie doesn't let state boundaries 

 stop her when it comes to connecting 

 people and resources. As president- 

 elect of the National Marine Educa- 

 tion Association, she draws on the 

 ideas and resources of educators from 

 coast to coast. And, she works with Sea 

 Grant marine education specialists 

 from Hawaii to Maine to target marine 

 education needs nationwide. 



As a teacher for six years, Lundie 

 knows teachers don't always have the 

 resources they need readily available. 

 That's why she helped to put together 

 four marine education manuals, cover- 

 ing coastal ecology, geology, history 

 and seawater. The manuals offer infor- 

 mation about the coast and exercises 

 that bring the coast into the classroom. 

 Lundie's latest manual, written with 

 Jaynee Medlicott of the 4-H Marine 

 Awareness Project, is a guide to 

 marine resources, aquaria and touch 

 tanks, and coastal field trips. She also 

 produces a marine education newslet- 

 ter for educators. It is distributed free 



four times a year. 



Lundie's job as an education 

 specialist wouldn't be complete 

 without some time in the classroom. 

 Lundie teaches an interdisciplinary 

 "oceans" course at North Carolina 

 State University. Drawing on the ex- 

 pertise of Sea Grant researchers, 

 specialists and agents as well as other 

 coastal specialists, Lundie teaches 

 about twenty-five college students 

 everything they can learn about the 

 coast in fourteen weeks. The highlight 

 of the course is a weekend field trip to 

 the Cape Lookout National Seashore, 

 where they learn about barrier-island 

 ecology and shoreline processes from 

 Stan Riggs, an East Carolina Univer- 

 sity geologist and Sea Grant 

 researcher. 



While Lundie's dedication to marine 

 education seems endless, she is always 

 quick to point out that she is not alone 

 in spreading the marine education 

 gospel. "I get a lot of support from the 

 Marine Resources Centers and from 

 the coastal and inland museums and 

 nature centers," Lundie says. 

 "Without them I couldn't be nearly as 

 effective as I am." 



—Kathy Hart 



