Staff and Contact Information

Ann Faulds
Phone: 215-806-0894
E-mail: afaulds@psu.edu

Ann Faulds is the associate director for the Delaware River program area. Ann is active in watershed education, fish consumption communications, and AIS outreach. Other specialties include wetland, stream, and lake ecology, and aquatic entomology.

Ann is an aquatic biologist with more than twenty years experience in science instruction and aquatic resource education. Prior to working with Pennsylvania Sea Grant, Ann taught in the Biology Department of West Chester University, where she received her master's degree in 1998. Ann has been with Pennsylvania Sea Grant since August 2001.

Items to note:

• Serves as chair of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Panel on AIS Outreach and Education workgroup.
• Collaborated with Maryland Sea Grant and Delaware Sea Grant to land a supplemental National Sea Grant AIS grant to plan and deliver Invasive Species: the Good, the Bad and the Prolific, a multistate series of professional development workshops for teachers.
• Along with a host of collaborators, served as primary author of Fish Smart, Eat Smart Fish and What Women Need to Know About Mercury in Fish and Shellfish. Provided technical support for the development of effective community-based safe fish consumption outreach efforts.
• Developed funding and provided leadership to support of the Delaware Estuary Flathead Catfish Research and Outreach Consortium to raise awareness of potential problems and identify research and outreach priorities.