He received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Earth Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. Dr. Tait was a Research Associate at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz prior to his arrival at SCSU in 1997. Dr. Tait teaches undergraduate courses in the Marine Studies minor program, the Honors College program and the graduate Environmental Education M.S. program. In addition to HON 270 Science along the Connecticut Coast, Dr. Tait developed two new courses for the Environmental Education