Teaching
GEOG 03: THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, NH
Fall 2018
I taught the department's introduction to physical geography course. It was a mix of lecture, discussion, and in-class activities.
You can find the syllabus here.
GEOG 034: THE GLOBAL FOOD AND ENERGY LANDSCAPE, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, NH
Summer 2017, Spring 2018
I created a new, interdisciplinary course for Dartmouth's Geography Department focusing on land-use change and trade-offs between ecosystem services. This course is be a mixture of lectures, group activities, case-study discussion and remote-sensing labs. During lectures, students learn about the biophysical consequences of land-use change (eutrophication, erosion, modified water and energy budgets, changes in greenhouse gas fluxes), common statistical methods used in land-use change analyses, and the language commonly used by land-change scientists. The students then use what they learned in lecture and apply it to case-study-based discussion and group activities. The class also includes four Google Earth Engine-based remote sensing labs where students learn how to find, download, interpret, and compare satellite data and perform basic land-use land-cover change analyses.
You can find the syllabus here.
Fall 2018
I taught the department's introduction to physical geography course. It was a mix of lecture, discussion, and in-class activities.
You can find the syllabus here.
GEOG 034: THE GLOBAL FOOD AND ENERGY LANDSCAPE, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, NH
Summer 2017, Spring 2018
I created a new, interdisciplinary course for Dartmouth's Geography Department focusing on land-use change and trade-offs between ecosystem services. This course is be a mixture of lectures, group activities, case-study discussion and remote-sensing labs. During lectures, students learn about the biophysical consequences of land-use change (eutrophication, erosion, modified water and energy budgets, changes in greenhouse gas fluxes), common statistical methods used in land-use change analyses, and the language commonly used by land-change scientists. The students then use what they learned in lecture and apply it to case-study-based discussion and group activities. The class also includes four Google Earth Engine-based remote sensing labs where students learn how to find, download, interpret, and compare satellite data and perform basic land-use land-cover change analyses.
You can find the syllabus here.
PHYS165: CLIMATE CHANGE, WHEATON COLLEGE, MA
Spring 2016
I taught Physics 165: Climate Change, Past and Present at Wheaton College, Massachusetts as a Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow. I pitched the class as one for science and non-science majors, as I believe that the most interesting and fruitful conversations happen when we speak across disciplines. 31 students enrolled in this introductory survey course, ranging in backgrounds from Physics to International Relations to Business majors. This course was the first I've ever taught completely from scratch and was a pretty solid learning experience for me and my students.
You can find the syllabus here.
Spring 2016
I taught Physics 165: Climate Change, Past and Present at Wheaton College, Massachusetts as a Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow. I pitched the class as one for science and non-science majors, as I believe that the most interesting and fruitful conversations happen when we speak across disciplines. 31 students enrolled in this introductory survey course, ranging in backgrounds from Physics to International Relations to Business majors. This course was the first I've ever taught completely from scratch and was a pretty solid learning experience for me and my students.
You can find the syllabus here.
REMOTE SENSING TEACHING ASSISTANT, BROWN UNIVERSITY, RI
Spring 2013, 2015
I led the weekly labs where students would take concepts they had learned in class lecture and apply them to remotely sensed data using ENVI/IDL. I rewrote a majority of the labs to incorporate Landsat8 data. I also worked with students to develop final-course research projects, and assisted them as they undertook their research. This class is often many students' introduction to the development of a research project in which they propose a question they want to answer, perform analyses of remote sensing data, and generate results.
Spring 2013, 2015
I led the weekly labs where students would take concepts they had learned in class lecture and apply them to remotely sensed data using ENVI/IDL. I rewrote a majority of the labs to incorporate Landsat8 data. I also worked with students to develop final-course research projects, and assisted them as they undertook their research. This class is often many students' introduction to the development of a research project in which they propose a question they want to answer, perform analyses of remote sensing data, and generate results.
Mentoring
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I've mentored and advised undergraduate students doing land-change-science-based senior honors theses and summer research in Brazil, I was also chosen as one of two graduate students to co-lead Brown's Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science Undergraduate Spring Break 2015 field trip to the Southwest.
Right: Relaxing during our field work outside of Belem, Brazil. Below: Brown DEEPS Undergraduate Spring Break trip at Meteor Crater 
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