She is a member of the Department of Education and the interdisciplinary Natural Resources doctoral program. She earned her B.S. in wildlife biology and botany and her doctoral degree in science education from Louisiana State University (1994). Her research focuses on how students learn content and the scientific process through project-based and technology-enriched curricula. Dr. Abrams has developed environmental curriculum in which students work, often with scientists, on authentic research projects. One such project is the GLOBE program (Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment) where K-12 students monitor the environmental health of their local area and send the results to other schools and scientists via the World Wide Web.