Meghan E Marrero

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Dr. Marrero is Professor of Secondary Science Education and Co-Director of the Â鶹¾«Æ· Center for STEM Education.  She has served as PI, co-Director or Co-PI on several large grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, Verizon and Wipro, Ltd., totaling more than $9 million.

In 2018, Dr. Marrero was a Fulbright Scholar at the National College of Ireland, Dublin, where she facilitated workshops and researched the international implementation of FLORES (Family Learning and Outreach for Research and Education in STEM), a family involvement program for early childhood learners and their families. 

Dr. Marrero's research interests are in ocean literacy for teachers and students (she co-authored a high school marine science textbook), and teacher education in STEM. She is a past president of the National Marine Educators Association (2018-19).

EdD, Science Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

Advanced Certificate, Educational Leadership, Queens College

MA, Science Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

BS, Biological Sciences, Cornell University

Meghan studies ocean literacy in teachers and students and collaborates on several international projects related to marine education. She also researches STEM teacher education and teacher leadership development with her colleagues at the Â鶹¾«Æ· Center for STEM Education. 

*Marrero, M.E. (2024). Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. In Asia Marine Educators Association (Ed). UN Ocean Decade Satellite Event Handbook: Action Plans and Challenges for Ocean Literacy by AMEA(pp. 51-52). Taiwan Ocean University.

*Napolitano, K., Gunning, A. M., Marrero, M. E., & Nitecki, E. (2023). Developing and Sustaining Elementary STEM Teacher Leadership Identities. Global Education Review, 10(4), 37-55.

*Marrero, M. E., Brandon, L. T., Gunning, A. M., & Riccio, J. F. (2023). Supporting first-generation college students to become teachers in high-needs schools. The Teacher Educator, 1-23.

*Marrero, M., & Crawford, K. (2022). How Do Seaweeds Meet their Needs? A Kindergarten Investigation. Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 36(1).

*Napolitano, K. V., Marrero, M. E., Gunning, A. M., Brandon, L. T., & Riccio, J. F. (2022). What happens after edTPA?. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 30, (80).

*Payne, D. L., Marrero, M. E., Schoedinger, S. E., & Halversen, C. (2022). The Rise and Fall of the Tide: Ocean Literacy in the United States. Mediterranean Marine Science, 23(2), 270-276.

Marrero, M.E., Gunning, A.M., Agravat, T.S., Vasquez, J. (2021). STEM Accessibility is a Family Affair. ASCD Express Newsletter.

*Gunning, A. M., Marrero, M., & Larson, K. V. (2021, July). Studying In-service Teacher Professional Development on Purposeful Integration of Engineering into K-12 STEM Teaching. ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Long Beach, CA.

*Payne, D.L., and Marrero, M.E., (2021) Ocean Literacy: from a Ripple to a Wave. In Koutsopoulos & Stel (Eds). Ocean Literacy: Understanding the Ocean. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

*Gunning, A. M., Marrero, M. E., Hillman, P. C., & Brandon, L. T. (2020). How K-12 Teachers of Science Experience a Vertically Articulated Professional Learning Community. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1-14.

Marrero, M.E. (2020). Teaching about Climate Change in Challenging Times. Pathways: Official Publication of the New York State Outdoor Education Association. Winter 2020, p. 31-32.

Marrero, M. E., Payne, D. L., & Breidahl, H. (2019). The Case for Collaboration to Foster Global Ocean Literacy. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 325.

Gunning, A.M., and Marrero, M.E., (2019).  STEM for all: Everyone’s responsibility. Education Update, March/April 2019, Accessed from:

Marrero, M.E. (2019). Thank the Ocean. Science Scope, 42(5), 1.

Fauville, G., Payne, D., Marrero, M.E., Laintz-Andersson, A., and Crouch, F. (2018). Exemplary Practices in Marine Science Education. Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Gunning, A. M., Marrero, M.E., and Dashoush, N. (2017). How big is a whale? A Kinesthetic Integrated Science and Mathematics Lesson. Current: The Journal of Marine Education. 31(1), 12-19.

Marrero, M.E., Riccio, J.F., Ben-Jacob, M., Canger, A., and Maliti, C. (2017). A crash course in undergraduate research. Journal of College Science Teaching. 46(5), 26-31.

Gunning, A. M. & Marrero, M. E. (2017). Examining inservice teachers’ mental models on teaching science through online learning. The Online Journal of New Horizons in Education.7(1), 103-112.

 Marrero, M.E. (2016). Science-based Service-learning in Science Teacher Education. International Journal of Service Learning in Teacher Education. 4(1), 1-15:

Gunning, A.M., Marrero, M.E., and Morrell, Z. (2016). Family Learning Opportunities in Engineering  and Science. Electronic Journal of Science Education .20(7), 1-25.

Marrero, M.E., Gunning, A.M., and Buonamano, C. (2016). A House for Chase the Dog: Second-Grade Students Investigate Material Properties. In Froschauer, L. (Ed.) Bringing STEM to the  Elementary Classroom (pp. 141-148). Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

Marrero, M. E., Gunning, A. M., & Woodruff, K. (2016). Using Authentic Earth Data in the K-12 Classroom. In M.Urban,& D. Falvo (Eds.) Improving K-12 STEM Education Outcomes through Technological Integration (pp. 281-309). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Marrero, M.E., & Woodruff, K. (2016). Diving Deep: Engaging Students with Authentic Ocean Data. In the Trenches: The News Magazine of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. 6(2), 1-3.

Marrero, M.E. (2016).  A Sense of Place: Connecting students with their local environment. New York State Conservationist. 70(6), 8-11.

2018       Fulbright Scholar Award to Ireland

2014       New York State Marine Education Association Award for Presidential Service

2013       James Centorino Award for Excellence in Marine Education