She is also currently the Associate Director of the Grass Fellows Laboratory at the Marine Biological Labs in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She has her Bachelors of Science from the University of California, San Diego, and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Duke University. Heather has an abiding passion for science education at all levels, which has led her to serve on the Education Council at The Works, a local STEM center, and to run numerous science outreach activities in her community. She has two wonderful daughters who have thrilled her to no end by willingly wearing homemade science-themed Halloween costumes in recent years.