Projects & Publications

Current & Past Consulting Projects

Organizational Consulting

I collaborate with organizations and agencies to create Earth systems science learning opportunities for stakeholders and communities, and evaluate the education and outreach efforts of nonprofit organizations. 

• 2024-Present: Facilitating administration and educational programming for Buffalo Park Community Garden

• 2023-2024: Evaluation of the Water Educators Network for Water Education Colorado

Research & Evaluation

I work with Earth science researchers to co-design, implement, and assess the broader impacts of their research; enable international science collaborations through project management, including organizing meetings, collaborating with different organizations' science communications, website design and maintenance, and managing reimbursements; and support grant-writing efforts that include geoscience & transdisciplinary education efforts; belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, &  inclusion; and transformative community research

• 2025 - Present: Critical Zone International Network of Networks

• 2023- Present: Amiable Consulting

• 2024-2025: UW-Madison GEOPAths LETS-GEO

• 2024: Designed and launched the SZ4D Matchmaker Survey

Academic - Practitioner Partnerships

I co-create and evaluate adult learning opportunities about the local impacts of climate change on ecosystems and communities; support international efforts to accelerate Earth and environmental education for all; and, co-design and test curriculum materials to ensure they are creative and data-rich, engaging learners in solutions rooted in their local environments. 

• 2024-Present: Facilitating trainings for Climate Resilient Colorado - NASA Earth to Sky Community of Practice

• 2024 - Present: International Geoscience Education Organisation

• 2023-2025: UNLV GEOPAths LEGENDS co-design of curriculum between researchers, teachers, and school district

Thought Leadership

• Recent Invited Conference Presentations

  • Geo-STEM Learning Ecosystems: A Community-Centered Approach to Rebuilding Trust and Engagement in Geoscience. AGU 2025 Annual Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA.

  • Cultivating Geoscience Literacy – What does it look like? Dachverband Geowissenschaften Geo4Göttingen 2025 Conference, Göttingen, Germany.

  • Doing my homework: How an inclusive geoscience classroom and community begins with me. AGU 2024 Annual Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL.

• Workshops & Webinars

  • With Cailin Orr and Jennifer Wenner. Belonging on the Cutting Edge Hybrid Workshop. 2024, SERC, Carleton College, Northfield, MN. 

  • With Amy Myrbo and Shirley Jackson. Building Better Broader Impacts (and Evaluation) for NSF Grant Proposals. GSA Connects 2023, Pittsburgh, PA

  • NSF-NCAR 2024 SOARS Leadership Training

  • Privilege, Power, and Accountability in our Professional Networks Series for NCAR/UCAR. Post-Doctoral Workshop (June 2024), Early Career Retreat (August 2024), Conference (October 2024)

  • Earth Science All Around:  Using 360 Imagery to Support Place-based Instruction. 2018 AGU Annual Fall Meeting. Washington, D.C. 

• Forum Panelist

  • Building a support network: finding advocates and allies. 2023 Second AMS Women’s Workshop, AMS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO

  • Disruption in Earth Education with Nancy Chen, Jabari Jones, and Dana Thomas at Earth Educators' Rendezvous 2024, Philadelphia, PA

Publications

• Manning, C.L.B. and LADUE, N. D. (submitted): How Teachers’ Experience, Sense of Belonging, Knowledge, and Worldview Contribute to Place-based Sustainability Science Instruction.

• Manning, C. L., & LaDue, N. D. (2024). Geo-STEM learning ecosystems: A transdisciplinary theory-based framework to establish and engage communities in the geosciences. Journal of Geoscience Education, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2024.2351028 

• Manning, Cheryl L.B., "Methods for Investigating Geo-Stem Learning Ecosystems: A Case-Study of Illinois Earth Science Teachers" (2023). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 7834. https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allgraduate-thesesdissertations/7834

• Manning, C. L. B. (2020), Engaging communities in geoscience with STEM learning ecosystems, Eos, 101, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EO147934.

• Robeck, E., Awad, A., Semken, S., Manning, C. L. B., Daniels, M., & Blankenbicker, A. (2020). Earth Science All Around: Using Immersive Virtual Field Trips with Place-Based Instruction in Earth and Space Science Education. The Earth Scientist, 36(1), 15–21.

• LaDue, N. D., & Manning, C. B. (2015). Next Generation Science Standards: A call to action for the geoscience community. GSA Today, 25(2), 28-29. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG233GW.1 

• Stokes, D., Jenkins, C., Huhnke, L., Grey, G., Manning, C.L.B. (2000). Math and Science Curriculum Revision: A Collaborative Approach to Improving Preservice Teachers' Use of Technology Knowledge and Instructional Skills. In EdMedia+ Innovate Learning (pp. 1832-1832). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 

• Brown, C. L. (1993). Early tectono-sedimentary history of a Neogene extensional basin in east-central Nevada. Masters Thesis, Montana State University-Bozeman, College of Letters & Science. https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/6718