Kevin Kurtz
Kevin Kurtz grew up in Homer, New York, one of the many small towns in New York’s very rural upstate. He has a bachelors in English literature and a masters in elementary education and started his professional career working in a marine biology laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina, where he spent 40 hours a week looking under a microscope at plankton samples to find shrimp larvae.
Not too long after starting the plankton job, Kevin was able to combine all of these experiences by becoming an environmental educator and curriculum writer, a field he has been involved with for just over a decade. He has worked for the South Carolina Aquarium, the Center for Birds of Prey and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, all in the Charleston area.
He has written and edited the South Carolina Aquarium’s award winning K-8 curriculum, as well as curriculum activities for NOAA, the College of Charleston’s COASTeam project and the Center for Birds of Prey. He also helped develop and was the first coordinator of the South Carolina Aquarium’s High School Intern Program, which recently won AZA’s Diversity award.
In 2007, Kevin was lucky enough to have a children’s book he wrote published, titled A Day in the Salt Marsh. A second children’s book he wrote titled A Day on the Mountain will also be published, probably in 2010.
Kevin is currently the Education Director of the Science Factory Children’s Museum in Eugene, Oregon.
