Teaching
Academic Year 2016-2017
*Spatial Analysis*
Grad-level lecture and discussion. Topics include: uncertainty analysis, basic data analysis and visualization, spatial analysis techniques including kriging, wavelet analysis, inverse distance weighting, spatial sampling design.
*Idaho Water Seminar*
Multi-institution seminar series on water issues important across the state of Idaho.
*The Dynamic Earth*
Introductory undergraduate course on geological and environmental science topics, including the rock and water cycles, climate change, and natural hazards.
*Scientific Writing Seminar*
Graduate-level discussion and workshop on technical writing and communication. Topics include: style, structure, oral and written presentations, communication with a diverse audience, media training.
*Critical Zone Reading Seminar*
An interdisciplinary graduate seminar where we read and discuss papers across the bio-geo-hydrosphere.
Past courses taught
"Spatial Analysis", grad-level lecture and discussion. Topics include: data analysis and visualization, brief introduction to time series analysis, spatial analysis techniques including kriging, wavelet analysis, inverse distance weighting. (2012-present)
"Idaho Water Seminar", multi-institution seminar series on water issues important across the state of Idaho. (2012-present)
"Watershed Hydrology", an upper-division undergraduate/lower-division graduate course on watershed hydrology with lecture, lab and field components. Topics include: watershed delineation, evapotranspiration, snow hydrology, infiltration, groundwater, streamflow, hydraulics. (2012-present)
"The Dynamic Earth", an introductory large-enrollment undergraduate course on geological and environmental science topics, including the rock and water cycles, climate change, and natural hazards. (2013-present)
"Scientific Writing Seminar", graduate-level discussion and workshop on technical writing. Topics include: style, structure, oral and written presentations, communication with a diverse audience, media training. (2013-present)
"Critical Zone Reading Seminar", interdisciplinary graduate seminar where we read and discuss papers across the bio-geo-hydrosphere. (2012-present)
"Water Chats," informal water-focused reading seminar at Penn State. (2010-2011)
"Fluid Mechanics," a upper-division engineering course focused on understanding and applying concepts of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy to incompressible fluids. (2011)
"The Water Planet", a large undergraduate survey course on water resources at UC-Berkeley. Co-taught with Bill Dietrich. (2008)
"Problem-solving for teachers" workshop at campus-wide training for new graduate student instructors. (2008-2009).
Various Earth Science and Environmental Engineering courses, UC-Berkeley, guest lecturer on hydrological processes. (2006-2009)
Teaching outside the classroom
Volunteered as a docent at the Lawrence Hall of Science to help interpret science displays and demonstrations for the public. (2008-2009)
Mentored undergraduate women through Society for Women in the Physical Sciences (2003-2006)
Pedagogical Training
Graduate Student Instructors Professional Development course. (2008)
Ethics in Teaching course. (January 2008)
