Noirin Burke

I am the Director of Education at Galway Atlantaquaria, the National Aquarium of Ireland.

I work on a number of Education programmes including the Explorers Marine Educational Programme for the Marine Institute in the west of Ireland. This programme works with primary schools on promoting Ocean Literacy to the next generation. As part of the Explorers programme she helps trial new materials and activities that are provided to schools through school visits and to teachers through continuous professional training and the explorers website, www.explorers.ie

I help promote marine education to the public with the help of a range of other science communicators including colleagues in the Marine Institute and the Explorers Team, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, the National University of Ireland, Galway, Cleancoast, the Galway Conservation Volunteers, the Friends of Terryland Forest Park, The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group and the team at Discover Primary Science and Mathematics and Science Foundation Ireland. I have the honour of being part of the Education Committee in the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Biaza and being a member of the board of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group.

I love sharks and elasmobranchs :-)

June 2016