Jack Buckley is one of the founding educators behind CSCR. Jack currently serves as Executive Director. His journey into the science world began as a teacher in Cohasset’s Alternative School, an experiential learning program that brought him to the waters of Cohasset in 1987. From there, he immersed himself in project-based & place-based education and spearheaded the creation of a school-community Summer Institute program that ran as the precursor to CSCR. Jacks holds a B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan University, an M.A. in Education from Tufts University, a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from New England University, and certification in GIS from the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, or GeoTech Center.
Susan Bryant grew up in and around Cohasset Harbor. She studied Human Ecology at Connecticut College and Wildlife Biology at The School For Field Studies, and for five years did teacher training workshops across the country for ZPG/The Population Connection before leaving for a simple fishing village in Madagascar as Peace Corps Volunteer. She ran NEBHE’s Environmental Internship Program for two years, and then joined the world of documentary film making. After two years as Head Teacher at the experiential Ganderia Middle School, in Norway, ME, she came back to Cohasset and helps facilitate CSCR’s Eelgrass Project. Susan is now directing middle school programming and leading CSCR’s ecology research projects.
Dr. Ann Thomae is CSCR’s Chief Scientific Officer, and the principal investigator of CSCR’s long-running water quality monitoring project in the Gulf River Estuary. “Doc T,” as Ann is affectionately known, holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow and is the retired science chair at Cohasset High School. Dr Thomae has cultivated the highly successful teaching practice that routinely engages her students in data analysis, a protocol referred to internally as the “Doc T method,” and a methodology now fully embraced by CSCR colleagues as a North Star for student team engagement. A founding leader at CSCR, Doc T is fond of story telling, laughing with her students, and sharing the humor in our co-opted mantra, “you can check out any time you’d like, but you can never leave.”