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John W. Leader |
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Welcome!
Please email any questions to:
johnwleader@yahoo.com |
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Professional Objectives:
~ Providing high quality science education
~ Promoting greater scientific literacy of the general public
~ Developing practical solutions for environmental problems |
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Co-treatment and constructed wetland wastewater treatment research at the University of Florida.
- photo by Ed Dunne |
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Current
* Assistant Professor of Biological Science, Wor-Wic Community College - Salisbury, MD
Brief Background
* Ph.D. (2005)
University of Florida
Major: Soil & Water Science
Minor: Environmental Engineering
Interdisciplinary Concentration:
Wetland Sciences (Center for Wetlands)
* B.S. (1986)
University of Maryland
Major: Science Education
Specialization: Biology
* Former Adjunct Faculty, Biology
Santa Fe Commumity College
- Gainesville, FL
* Formerly Practicing & Certified
Maryland H.S. Science Teacher
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Web Links |
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Leader et al. 2005 Water Sci. &Tech.51(9):283-290. |
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Leader et al. 2005 Macrophyte Newsletter, (29):57-63. |
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PhD Exit Seminar (PowerPoint) 11/10/04 at UF
(Use right arrow key to advance slides once at site) |
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The Wetland Biogeochemistry Lab |
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UF-Soil & Water Sci. Dept. |
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Soil Sci. Soc. of Ameri. (member) |
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Amer. Wat. Res. Assoc. (member) |
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Soc. of Wetland Sci. (member) |
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Sigma Xi - The Sci. Res. Soc. (member) |
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Gamma Sigma Delta Hon. Soc. of Agric. (member) |
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Contact Information |
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Email: |
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jleader@worwic.edu |
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johnwleader@yahoo.com |
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Please send email
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- M. Belmont |
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- SFWMD |
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- NASA |
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Site updated: August 22, 2006 |
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Quotes to Consider |
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For in the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. And we will understand only what we are taught.
- Baba Dioum, African conservationist |
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"In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
- Rachel Carson |
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"Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
- Jules Henri Poincare |
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
- Winston Churchill |
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. You can't solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it."
- Albert Einstein |
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"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."
- Jane Goodall |
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"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these."
- George Washington Carver |
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