Harford Community College to Hold STEM Day 2020 on February 1

Harford Community College Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) students and future STEM students (high school-age) are invited to participate in the 2020 STEM Day at Harford Community College. STEM Day 2020 will take place on February 1 from 8:30 AM to 1 PM in the College’s Aberdeen Hall. This event will showcase both student and faculty projects or research, give updates about Harford's STEM programs, and allow faculty to hear from a group of STEM students. The public is invited to attend this free event.

The keynote speaker this year is John T. Tanacredi, PhD, Professor of Earth & Environmental Studies, Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring, who will discuss “Our Coastlines Under Siege.”

Dr. Tanacredi has extensive experience in environmental/ecological/conservation biology research and management. As Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring at Molloy College, he has worked on a variety of water quality and conservation issues along the near shore ocean of the Long Island coast, including the Great South Bay. He has led trips including students to study coral reef ecology in Belize and the Virgin Islands; tropical rainforest ecology in Costa Rica; evolution and island ecology in the Galapagos Islands/Ecuador; horseshoe crab conservation in China, Taiwan and Japan; earth history in Iceland; volcanoes in Italy; air pollution in Athens, Greece; Beluga Whales in St. Lawrence and Canada; and migratory birds and turtles in the Caribbean.

Dr. Tanacredi is a world-renowned authority on horseshoe crab conservation and ecology. He has also served as a flight meteorologist with the U.S. Navy "Hurricane Hunters," an environmental analyst with the U.S. Coast Guard Bridge Administration, a research ecologist with the National Park Service, and Department Chair of Earth and Marine Sciences. He has obtained or been involved as principal investigator in more than $5.5 million of research-related funding.

Dr. Tanacredi received a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Polytechnic University (today, NYU Polytechnic Institute), an MS in Environmental Health Sciences from the Institute of Health Sciences at CUNY Hunter College, and a BS in Biological Sciences from CUNY Richmond College. Presently, Dr. Tanacredi is a long-standing member of The Explorer's Club, the NY Academy of Sciences, and the Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island.

Send an email to STEM@harford.edu by January 15, 2020 to register. Student projects or research selected for presentation during STEM Day will earn a College Store voucher. The deadline for presentation proposals is January 15, 2020.

For more information, visit http://www.harford.edu/stemday.