Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Springfield
ENS 551 Environmental Natural Sciences (Fall 2019; Spring 2020, online)
This course introduces basic scientific concepts required to understand and to solve environmental problems. Our MS and MA students come from diverse undergraduate backgrounds across the natural and social sciences, and this course gets everyone up to speed on topics in the natural sciences. Disciplines covered covered include earth science, physics, chemistry, biology, and ecology.
ENS 151 Earth Science (Fall 2018; Spring 2019; Fall 2019; Spring 2020)
This course fulfills the 'physical science without a lab' curriculum requirement. Earth Science introduces non-science majors to the solid earth, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere of their planet, and specific processes that affect their day-to-day lives. For the students' final project, they form groups of 3-4 and create a website about a natural disaster that occurred in recent human history. Those sites will be hosted here as an online portfolio for the students.
ENS 468 Environmental Geology (Fall 2019, online)
This course introduces upper-division undergraduate and Environmental Studies majors and graduate students to basic principles of geology and their importance and applications to environmental science. Though originally listed without a pre-requisitite, I plan to require ENS 151 or other Intro to Geology course in the future so ENS 468 can cover more advanced topics in geology and how it relates to environmental science.
Assistant Instructor (Lecturer), University of Texas at Austin
Age of Dinosaurs (Summer 2015)
This course fulfilled the UT-Austin curriculum requirement for a science course with a lab component. Though dinosaurs were the main focus of the semester, they served as my system for introducing broader topics in the geosciences, ecology, evolution, and global change.
Home School Instructor, Austin Monday Co-op
Introduction to Paleobiology (Fall 2014)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
Age of Mammals (Spring 2017)
Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton (Spring 2016)
Plate Tectonics and Earth History (Spring 2014; Spring 2015)
Sedimentary Rocks (Fall 2014)
Age of Dinosaurs (Fall 2013)
Life Through Time (Fall 2012)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Utah
Introduction to Paleobiology (Spring 2012)
World of Dinosaurs (Fall, 2011; Spring 2012)
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Auburn University
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Spring 2009; Spring 2010)
ENS 551 Environmental Natural Sciences (Fall 2019; Spring 2020, online)
This course introduces basic scientific concepts required to understand and to solve environmental problems. Our MS and MA students come from diverse undergraduate backgrounds across the natural and social sciences, and this course gets everyone up to speed on topics in the natural sciences. Disciplines covered covered include earth science, physics, chemistry, biology, and ecology.
ENS 151 Earth Science (Fall 2018; Spring 2019; Fall 2019; Spring 2020)
This course fulfills the 'physical science without a lab' curriculum requirement. Earth Science introduces non-science majors to the solid earth, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere of their planet, and specific processes that affect their day-to-day lives. For the students' final project, they form groups of 3-4 and create a website about a natural disaster that occurred in recent human history. Those sites will be hosted here as an online portfolio for the students.
ENS 468 Environmental Geology (Fall 2019, online)
This course introduces upper-division undergraduate and Environmental Studies majors and graduate students to basic principles of geology and their importance and applications to environmental science. Though originally listed without a pre-requisitite, I plan to require ENS 151 or other Intro to Geology course in the future so ENS 468 can cover more advanced topics in geology and how it relates to environmental science.
Assistant Instructor (Lecturer), University of Texas at Austin
Age of Dinosaurs (Summer 2015)
This course fulfilled the UT-Austin curriculum requirement for a science course with a lab component. Though dinosaurs were the main focus of the semester, they served as my system for introducing broader topics in the geosciences, ecology, evolution, and global change.
Home School Instructor, Austin Monday Co-op
Introduction to Paleobiology (Fall 2014)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
Age of Mammals (Spring 2017)
Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton (Spring 2016)
Plate Tectonics and Earth History (Spring 2014; Spring 2015)
Sedimentary Rocks (Fall 2014)
Age of Dinosaurs (Fall 2013)
Life Through Time (Fall 2012)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Utah
Introduction to Paleobiology (Spring 2012)
World of Dinosaurs (Fall, 2011; Spring 2012)
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Auburn University
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Spring 2009; Spring 2010)