Administration & Staff Directory
Teresa Greely
Faculty Director Education & Outreach
Biological Oceanographer & Science Educator
Ph.D.,ßÙßÇÂþ», 2008
Office Phone: 727.553.3921
Email: greely@usf.edu
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Areas of Interests
Ecology and physiology of oceanic and estuarine fishes, age and growth, graduate and
undergraduate teaching, teacher education, ocean literacy, and communicating science.
Dr. Greely provides expertise in the areas of biological oceanography, ecological
physiology, marine fishes, and ocean science education. She has broad research interests
which encompass teaching and training about the ocean sciences in three areas: graduate
and undergraduate education, teacher education, and ocean literacy amongst youth.
She currently coordinates four education programs: The Oceanography Camp for Girls
(OCG), the In-service Teacher Oceanography Workshops (In-TOW), the National Ocean
Science Bowl’s regional Spoonbill Bowl competition, and the OCEANS Teaching Fellowships.
In addition to teaching natural sciences and science education courses, Dr. Greely,
also developed a series of graduate courses focused on teaching and communicating
ocean sciences. Programs and courses are designed to teach science parallel to the
way science is practiced in a research setting: courses are inquiry based, experiential,
and learner guided.
Dr. Greely’s current research encompasses Ocean Literacy and reasoning about ocean
issues by determining the influence of content, experience, and morality. The objective
is to determine what youth around the world know about the ocean, what their attitudes
are about ocean stewardship, and what they think about ocean issues.