Education
PhD in Geoscience Education, Western Michigan University
MS in Geoscience, Mississippi State University
BS in Physical Oceanography, United States Naval Academy
Peggy McNeal
Associate Professor
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Areas of Expertise
Dr. McNeal is a Geoscience Education Researcher at Towson University who focuses on investigating how students use spatial reasoning in fluid-Earth science courses. Her research includes working with student and expert meteorologists to better understand their interpretation of complex data displays, such as surface and upper air maps. She also uses rotating tanks to investigate student use of spatial reasoning while observing models of geophysical fluid processes. She accompanies students on convective field studies (storm chasing) to answer questions about how they visualize and learn about three-dimensional atmospheric processes. The goal of these investigations is to better understand how humans think spatially and apply that knowledge to teaching and learning in undergraduate fluid-Earth classrooms, such as meteorology and oceanography.
Courses Taught
- PHSC 206: Earth and Space Science for Middle School Teachers
- GEOL 357: Oceanography
- GEOL 122: Honors Physical Geology
- PHSC 101: Physical Science I
- PHSC 303: Earth and Space Science
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GEOL 490: Independent Research in Geology