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Bonnie DeVarco
 Bonnie DeVarco regularly writes and lectures on emerging technologies in education, virtual worlds, next generation geographic information systems, information visualization and the culture of cyberspace. She is currently Senior Researcher and Project Coordinator for the NSF funded Interactive Earth 2 Project, a next generation interactive for Earth Systems Science led by WorldLink Media, TERC, NASA Goddard and the World Resources Institute (WRI). And for the past five years, she developed and co-directed LinkWorld, a 3D multi-user world for high school students, as part of the Borderlink Project, a federally funded Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. Through Planetwork.org, Telascience.org and other non profit organizations and educational institutions, Ms. DeVarco leads efforts to research, explore and develop new opportunities for telecollaboration, visualization, education and environmental action using advanced satellite and network technologies, visualization and open source tools.
Ms. DeVarco has served as an education technology consultant to non-profit, corporate and educational organizations for the past 16 years (this list includes PBS, Stanford University, the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies, San Diego and James Burke's Knowledge Web, UC Santa Cruz, UCOP, Smithsonian Institute, DigitalSpace and others). She has helped develop multi-institutional programs for distance and media enhanced learning for the University of California Office of the President and the K-12 as a research and development consultant for the UC College Prep Initiative, one of the first statewide virtual high school programs since 1998.
As a member of the Board of Directors for the Contact Consortium Ms. DeVarco founded the VLearn3D initiative in 1998. Vlearn3D is an international networking hub for educators using multi-user environments to enhance the learning process. She has regularly produced educational events in cyberspace and in distributed physical locations through Vlearn3D.org, UC Santa Cruz's "Tech Innovation" program, UCLA, the Los Angeles Festival, Telascience and the Buckminster Fuller Institute. From 1989 to 1995 she was chief archivist for the Buckminster Fuller Archives, recently acquired by Stanford University
Writings by Bonnie DeVarco available on PlaNetwork Journal:
Earth as A Lens: Global Collaboration, GeoCommunication, and The Birth of EcoSentience
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