Heidi Ballard
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Education
Phone: (530) 754-6255
Email: hballard@ucdavis.edu
I am interested in how researchers and communities can collaborate on questions that address the needs of both in conservation and environmental sciences. This takes place in fields as varied as ecology and environmental sciences, education, community development, sustainable agriculture, and environmental justice. I'm particularly interested in the structures, processes and institutions that facilitate citizen science projects and other forms of community-scientist collaborations, and the social, educational and scientific outcomes that result. Currently I am working with pollinator biologists and conservationists on citizen science projects that train volunteers and landowners to identify and monitor native and European honey bees and their habitat. I am also working with the Center for Land-Based Learning on developing science classroom writing prompts and evaluating the impacts of their restoration activities on student learning.
(Office located in 2049 Academic Surge Bldg.) NEW Course Spring 2010: EDU 142 Introduction to Environmental Education!! Get HANDS-ON experience with local env. ed. groups, and a strong foundation in environmental ed. concepts! I am working to create courses and programs in environmental education for both graduate and undergraduate students. All courses include working in real education, outreach and research settings. Courses I'm teaching 2009-2010: Participatory Action Research (EDU 292 - Special Topics in Education) (Winter '10) Science, Ag. and Math Education Graduate Seminar (Winter '09) EDU 142 Intro. to Environmental Education (Spring '10) EDU 206B Teacher Education (Spring '09)
Expertise
Environmental Education; In-service and preservice teacher learning; Science Education; Secondary Education; Service-learning
Education
- Ph.D. (2004) Environmental Science, Policy and Management from University of California, Berkeley
- M.A. (1999) Teaching Biological Sciences from Miami University, Ohio
- California Single Subject Teaching Credential (1994) Science and English Literature, Stanford Teacher Education Program, Stanford University
- M.A. (1993) Education, Science Curriculum and Teacher Education, Stanford University
- B.A. (1993) Human Biology and English Literature, Stanford University
Highlighted Publications
- Ballard, Heidi L.; Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez, and Victoria E. Sturtevant. 2008. Integration of Local Ecological Knowledge and Conventional Science: A Study of Seven Community-based Forestry Organizations in the USA. Ecology and Society 13 (2) no. 25.[online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art25/
- Ballard, Heidi L. and Brinda Sarathy. 2008. Inclusion and Exclusion: Immigrant Forest Workers and Participation in Natural Resource Management, in Carl Wilmsen, William Elmendorf, Larry Fisher, Jacquelyn Ross, Brinda Sarathy and Gail Wells (eds.) Partnerships for Empowerment: Participatory Research for Community-Based Natural Resource Management. London, UK: Earthscan.
- Ballard, Heidi L.; Jonni Trettevick and Don Collins. 2008. Comparing Participatory Ecological Research in Two Contexts: An Immigrant Community and a Native American Community on Olympic Peninsula, Washington, in Carl Wilmsen, William Elmendorf, Larry Fisher, Jacquelyn Ross, Brinda Sarathy and Gail Wells (eds.) Partnerships for Empowerment: Participatory Research for Community-Based Natural Resource Management. London, UK: Earthscan.
- Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria E.; Heidi L. Ballard and Victoria E. Sturtevant. 2008. Adaptive Management and Social Learning in Collaborative and Community-based Monitoring: A Study of Five Community-based Forestry Organizations in the Western USA. Ecology and Society 13 (2): 4. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art4/
- Ballard, Heidi L. 2008. What makes a scientist?: Studying the impacts of harvest in the Pacific Northwest, in Louise Fortmann (ed.), Doing Science Together. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Oxford, United Kingdom.
- Ballard, H. and L. Fortmann. 2007. Collaborating Experts: Integrating Civil and Conventional Science to Inform Management of Salal (Gaultheria shallon), in Hanna, Kevin and D. Scott Slocombe, (eds.) Integrated Resource Management. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
- Ballard, H. L. and L. Huntsinger. 2006. Salal Harvester Local Ecological Knowledge, Harvest Practices and Understory Management on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
- Pilz, David; Heidi L. Ballard and Eric T. Jones. 2006. Broadening Participation in Biological Monitoring: Guidelines for Scientists and Managers. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report, PNW-GTR-680. http://www.ifcae.org/projects/ncssf3/
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Awards and Honors
- 2004 University of California, Berkeley, University Fellowship.
- 2002-2003 Environmental Science, Policy and Management Departmental Fellowship.
- 2002-2003 Ford Foundation Community Forestry Research Dissertation Fellowship.
Associations, Boards & Committees
- Ecological Society of America
- American Educational Research Association
- Society for Conservation Biology
- International Association for Society and Natural Resources
- Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnerships (steering committee member)
Courses Taught at UC Davis
- EDU 199 - Introduction to Environmental Science Education
- EDU 292 - Graduate Seminar in Environmental Education
- EDU 292 - Science, Agric. and Math Education Graduate Seminar
- EDU 206C/D - Inquiry into Classroom Learning
- EDU 292 - Participatory Action Research
Funded Research
- "Making 'hands-on' science 'minds-on' science: Creating connections between classrooms, farms and habitats" - Cooperative Research and Extension Service for Schools Collaborative Research Grant
- "Sustainable Harvest Project" - Laura Jane Musser Foundation
- "Ecological Monitoring in Community Forestry in the U.S." - Ford Foundation