PENELOPE M. KOINES, INSTRUCTOR

Academic Interests: Coastal vegetation and environmental education

Courses currently taught:

BSCI 124  Plant Biology for Non-science Majors

BSCI 205  Environmental Science

BSCI 206  Chesapeake: A Living Resource

BSCI 362  Ecology of Marsh and Dune Vegetation

Although my research in graduate school was in plant lipid biochemistry, I developed an interest in coastal vegetation while doing research at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory on Solomons Island, and currently have a research project on Assateague Island monitoring Phragmites australis populations for the National Park Service.

I am active in environmental conservation organizations both on campus and in my community. For many years I have been Faculty Advisor to ECO, the student Environmental Conservation Organization, and am on the Advisory Board of College Park Scholars in Environmental Science. At home, I have been active as a member of numerous conservation organizations, a volunteer at the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, and give talks for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Idea of a good time: Mucking around the marshes and beaches of the Eastern Shore, and eating Chesapeake Bay crabs!

Food for thought:

"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born

of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was

supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."