Profile of Dr. Sandra Henderson
NEON, Inc.
1685 38th St. Suite 100
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: (720) 746-4916
shenderson@neoninc.org
Current position: Senior Education Specialist, NEON; Director of Project BudBust
Henderson is the Director of Citizen Science at the National Ecological Observatory where she where she also serves as the Director of Project BudBurst (www.budburst.org), a national citizen science field campaign focused on plants and climate. She has over two decades of environmental science education experience and is particularly interested in science education programs and citizen science campaigns that address the needs of underrepresented populations. Before becoming a science educator, she worked as a project scientist studying the potential impact of climate change at the US EPA’s Environmental Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon.