Dr. Beth Gienger

Beth Gienger is the Assistant Director of Teacher Education  at the 3 Sigma Institue.  She has both a bachelors and a masters in Science Education from Oregon State University. For the past 30 years, she has been teaching high school science on the Oregon coast. Her students have been involved in a variety of local research projects, including water quality sampling of the local watershed and assessing aquatic insect communities along salmon streams. Her students are involved in spawining both salmon and steelhead at the local hatchery as well as studying invertebrates within the local mudflats and rocky intertidal areas. She has taught biology, oceanography, environmental science and AP Biology over the course of her career.  She is the winningest coach of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl competiton at the Salmon Bowl hosted by Oregon State University and has advanced to the national competition for 11 of the 17 years the competition has been in existence.