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Mark Gleason

Adjunct Faculty
HTM 202 - International Tourism

Mark has diverse professional experience with several Natural Resources management agencies and environmental education programs including the National Park Service as well as outdoor adventure groups including Outward Bound and NOLS. His degrees include a Ph.D. in Forest Resources and Environmental Science from Michigan Tech University, a Masters in Parks and Recreation form Michigan State University and a Masters in Public Administration from Western Michigan University, plus a Bachelors of Science from GVSU.  Areas of research interests include the use of technology in natural resources education, maritime and natural resources management, and the use of robotics to explore underwater archeology sites.

Dr. Gleason has nearly ten years of diverse experience in the operation of underwater robots/ROVs in education, research and industry. His Ph.D. dissertation research demonstrated the usefulness of small ROVs in natural resources education programs. Those programs and their development led to positions creating educational programs at museums and colleges. Those efforts resulted in unique underwater experiences for thousands of students and the general public. Other professional work includes several years operating ROVs in the oil/gas industry in the middle-east. His recent ROV work includes developing partnerships between government agencies, non-profits and industry to explore shipwrecks. Those partnerships have used ROVs and side scan sonar to explore approximately thirty Great Lakes shipwrecks. In addition he is creating a marine tech program with a Michigan college that will provide ROV training for college students.   

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