Current Geoscience Education Research:
I am currently collaborating on a Systematic evaluation of Geoscience education programs that are designed for American Indian Alaska Native students, or use Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Below is the talk we presented at the 2020 Fall American Geophysical Union Conference.

Teaching Philosophy Sources

• Teaching Across Cultural Strengths: A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching, Alicia Fedelina Chávez and Susan Diana Longerbeam, 2016
• Successful STEM Mentoring Initiatives for Underrepresented Students: A Research-Based Guide for Faculty and Administrators, Becky Wai-Ling Packard, 2015.
• Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice, Maryellen Weimer, 2013.
• Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses, L. Dee Fink, 2013

Teaching Experience 

• Geological Oceanography (GEL 150B), instructor of record, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Davis, Fall 2020, undergraduate course online (54 students)
• The Oceans (GEL 016), instructor of record, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Davis, Fall 2020, undergraduate course online (96 students)
• Introduction to Oceanography (OCNG 251), instructor of record, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, Spring 2017 (30 students), Fall 2016 (60 students), Spring 2016 (65 students)
• Graduate Assistant Teacher: (OCNG 251) Spring 2014, undergraduate lab (three 20 person sections)
• Multnomah ESD Soil Field Instructor September 2012 to May 2013 (Develop and implement experiential science curriculum, train, supervise and evaluate High School volunteers in instruction of 6th grade students).