As Co-director of the Texas Tech Outdoor Learning Center, Brett is committed to getting children excited, engaged and reconnected to the natural world around them. The Outdoor Learning Center, within the Texas Tech Llano River Field Station in Junction, Texas, provides him with the perfect environment to teach students and educators alike the nature-oriented concepts lacking in many science classrooms. His professional interests involve getting more students and teachers excited and involved in the outdoor experience, raising the environmental IQ of his students, and working to reverse the symptoms of Nature-Deficit Disorder found in our younger generation. His hobbies include fishing local rivers, hiking and generally being outdoors. Brett has a Bachelor of Science in Multidisciplinary Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and has taught middle and high school science.