Mount Holyoke College
For the 2024-2025 academic year I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College in the Department of Geology and Geography. I am teaching Atmosphere and Weather, and Sea Level Science.
Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy
For several years I co-instructed the graduate Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy seminar at UMass Amherst with Forrest Bowlick, Elsa Cousins, Nigel Golden, Cam Anderson. Syllabi were co-created by the students and co-instructors. All of our syllabi and various other course resources are available here.
Distinguished Teaching Award
I am thrilled to have won the Distinguished Teaching Award from UMass Amherst! This award was for my work developing and teaching a course for freshman about the climate crisis, as well as co-facilitating a graudate seminar on DEI work in geoscience, geography, and environmental science. See the press release here.
Teaching as Research
I am conducting a study of learning outcomes in my First Year Seminar course, Climate Change: It's a Hot Mess. This work is approved by the UMass Institutional Review Board and advised by Denise Pope, coordinator for the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning at UMass. Preliminary results can be found in this poster from the American Geophysical Union conference and can be cited with this DOI.
Spring 2022
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Geography 393C Geographies of Climate Justice
UMass Amherst, in person. Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the planet, and it is intimately connected to uneven and inequitable social, political, economic and environmental geographies. In this course we explore climate justice in relation to climate science including greenhouse gas emissions and ongoing and likely future impacts; differential experiences and narratives of climate change; the ways that climate solutions may reinforce or improve social and economic difference and marginalization; more-than-human geographies of climate change; and possibilities for democratic and just responses. Students will leave this course with a broader understanding of the necessity and practice of climate justice. |
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Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy
Geosciences 595P
Mondays at 11:15am via Zoom
Geosciences 595P
Mondays at 11:15am via Zoom
Fall 2020
Climate Change: It's a Hot Mess
Nat Sci 191CNS70 at UMass Amherst, 2 sections held via Zoom
Human activity is causing the climate of our planet to change at an unprecedented rate. With all of the information available these days from a variety of sources it can be challenging to cut through the noise and get to the actual science. How do we know what is causing climate change, how does the current situation differ from the past, and what is going to happen in the future? This course will empower you with the answers to these questions by discussing the latest climate research, looking critically at climate coverage in the media, and investigating the tools scientists use to learn about the world around us. Throughout the course we will also look at the human dimensions of climate change by discussing the ways politics, economics, and social justice intersect with a changing climate and how all of these factors combine to impact our lives.
Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy
Geosciences 595P
Mondays at 11:15am via Zoom
IPCC Graduate Seminar
Geosciences 763
Mondays at 2:30pm via Zoom
Nat Sci 191CNS70 at UMass Amherst, 2 sections held via Zoom
Human activity is causing the climate of our planet to change at an unprecedented rate. With all of the information available these days from a variety of sources it can be challenging to cut through the noise and get to the actual science. How do we know what is causing climate change, how does the current situation differ from the past, and what is going to happen in the future? This course will empower you with the answers to these questions by discussing the latest climate research, looking critically at climate coverage in the media, and investigating the tools scientists use to learn about the world around us. Throughout the course we will also look at the human dimensions of climate change by discussing the ways politics, economics, and social justice intersect with a changing climate and how all of these factors combine to impact our lives.
Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy
Geosciences 595P
Mondays at 11:15am via Zoom
IPCC Graduate Seminar
Geosciences 763
Mondays at 2:30pm via Zoom
Fall 2019
Climate Change: it's a Hot Mess
Nat Sci 191CNS70 at UMass Amherst
Human activity is causing the climate of our planet to change at an unprecedented rate. With all of the information available these days from a variety of sources it can be challenging to cut through the noise and get to the actual science. How do we know what is causing climate change, how does the current situation differ from the past, and what is going to happen in the future? This course will empower you with the answers to these questions by discussing the latest climate research, looking critically at climate coverage in the media, and investigating the tools scientists use to learn about the world around us. Throughout the course we will also look at the human dimensions of climate change by discussing the ways politics, economics, and social justice intersect with a changing climate and how all of these factors combine to impact our lives.
3 sections:
Th 11:30AM - 12:20PM Morrill Sci. Ctr. (IV) rm S159
Th 1:00PM - 1:50PM Morrill Sci. Ctr. (II) rm 245
Th 2:30PM - 3:20PM Morrill Sci. Ctr. (II) rm 245
Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy
Geosciences 595P
Nat Sci 191CNS70 at UMass Amherst
Human activity is causing the climate of our planet to change at an unprecedented rate. With all of the information available these days from a variety of sources it can be challenging to cut through the noise and get to the actual science. How do we know what is causing climate change, how does the current situation differ from the past, and what is going to happen in the future? This course will empower you with the answers to these questions by discussing the latest climate research, looking critically at climate coverage in the media, and investigating the tools scientists use to learn about the world around us. Throughout the course we will also look at the human dimensions of climate change by discussing the ways politics, economics, and social justice intersect with a changing climate and how all of these factors combine to impact our lives.
3 sections:
Th 11:30AM - 12:20PM Morrill Sci. Ctr. (IV) rm S159
Th 1:00PM - 1:50PM Morrill Sci. Ctr. (II) rm 245
Th 2:30PM - 3:20PM Morrill Sci. Ctr. (II) rm 245
Diversity Inclusion Pedagogy
Geosciences 595P
fall 2018
Climate Change: It's a Hot Mess
Human activity is causing our planet's climate to change at an unprecedented rate. With all of the information available these days from a variety of sources it can be challenging to cut through the noise and get to the actual science. How do we know what is causing climate change, how does the current situation differ from the past, and what is going to happen in the future? This course will empower you with the answers to these questions by discussing the latest climate research, looking critically at climate coverage in the media, and investigating the tools scientists use to learn about the world around us.
NATSCI 191CNS70 at UMass Amherst
Section 1- Monday 1:25-2:15 pm in Morrill Sci. Ctr. (I) rm N349
Section 2- Monday 2:30-3:20 pm in Morrill Sci. Ctr. (I) rm N349
Human activity is causing our planet's climate to change at an unprecedented rate. With all of the information available these days from a variety of sources it can be challenging to cut through the noise and get to the actual science. How do we know what is causing climate change, how does the current situation differ from the past, and what is going to happen in the future? This course will empower you with the answers to these questions by discussing the latest climate research, looking critically at climate coverage in the media, and investigating the tools scientists use to learn about the world around us.
NATSCI 191CNS70 at UMass Amherst
Section 1- Monday 1:25-2:15 pm in Morrill Sci. Ctr. (I) rm N349
Section 2- Monday 2:30-3:20 pm in Morrill Sci. Ctr. (I) rm N349