Prof. Thomas J. Quirk is Professor Emeritus of Marketing at The Walker School of Business and Technology at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri (US) where he taught Marketing Statistics, Marketing Research, and Pricing Strategies. At the beginning of his academic career, Prof. Quirk spent 6 years in educational research at The American Institutes for Research and Educational Testing Service. Prof. Quirk has published more than 20 articles in professional journals including The Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Educational Research, Review of Educational Research, Journal of Educational Measurement, and Educational Technology , published more than 60 textbook supplements in Management and Marketing, and presented more than 20 papers at professional meetings, including annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education. Prof. Quirk holds a BS in Mathematics from John Carroll University, both an MA in Education and a PhD in Educational Psychology from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Dr. Meghan H. Quirk holds both a PhD in Biological Education and an MA in Biological Sciences from the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), and a BA in Biology and Religion at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. She has done research on food web dynamics at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota and research in agro-ecology in Southern Belize. She has co-authored an article on shortgrass steppe ecosystems in Photochemistry and Photobiology and has presented papers at the Shortgrass Steppe Symposium inFort Collins, Colorado, the Long-term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting in Estes Park, Colorado, and participated in the NSF Site Review of the Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term Ecological Research in Nunn, Colorado. She is a National Science Foundation Fellow GK-12 and currently is a public school administrator in Parker, Colorado.
Howard F. Horton holds an MS in Biological Sciences from the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) and a BS in Biological Sciences from Mesa State College. He has worked on research projects in Pawnee National Grasslands, Rocky Mountain National Park, Long-Term Ecological Research at ToolikLake, Alaska, and Wind Cave, South Dakota. He has co-authored articles in The International Journal of Speleology and The Journal of Cave and Karst Studies . He is a National Science Foundation Fellow GK-12 and is currently the Angler Outreach Coordinator with the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife.
