Catherine

Catherine Sutera
Catherine Sutera
Catherine Sutera, Education Specialist, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Catherine Sutera is the Assistant Ocean Science Educator at the National Museum of Natural History. Catherine has a Master’s in Natural Science from Louisiana State University where she did her thesis on the impact of informal science education. She also did her undergraduate work at LSU, majoring in biology, with a marine biology concentration.

Before coming to the Smithsonian, Catherine was a graduate assistant with the Louisiana Sea Grant office where she developed informal educational materials and helped organize a day-long ocean education event for K-8 students. She has also worked with the Audubon Zoo, the LSU Museum of Natural History, and the Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center. Catherine has also participated in field research, spending a summer with the Marine Biological Laboratory in Plum Island Watershed in Massachusetts.

Collaborator Contributions

Museum Specialist Ruth Gibbons, aboard a deep sea research vessel processing specimens

Ruth Gibbons, Museum Specialist at the National Systematics Laboratory (NSL) of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), located at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)

Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

Staci DeSchryver, Jason Moeller, and Caitlin Fine, during their time in NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program

USFW Biologist Jason Goldberg, on a boat, holding an Asian carp

USFW Biologist Jason Goldberg, holding an Asian carp

National Coordinator for USFWS, Aquatic Animal Health, Joel Bader

Joel Bader, National Coordinator for Aquatic Animal Health, USFWS

Smithsonian Ichthyologist and Curator of Fishes, Dr. David Johnson

David Johnson, Ichthyologist and Curator of Fishes, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History