Courses

Here is a list of classes I have taught and some of the books I've used. For some of my thoughts on teaching, read my Teaching Columns.

CORE 1000: Ignite Seminar: Climate Change, Science and Solutions: "A Global Warming Primer" by Jeffrey Bennett, "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling

EAS 5500: Communications in Research: "The Art of Being a Scientist" by Roel Snieder and Ken Larner; "Clear and Simple as the Truth" by Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner

EAS 103: Earth’s Dynamic Environment II - Atmospheres: “Earth Science” by Tarbuck, Lutgens and Tasa. Check out TopHat for Concept Tests and estimation problems.

EAS 104: Earth’s Dynamic Environment II - Atmospheres Lab: Weather and climate exercises with Excel.

EAS 109: Climate Change. “Global Warming, the Complete Briefing”, John Houghton. Check out Peerceptiv for student peer review of class papers.

EAS 109H: Climate Change with some rhetoric thrown in: “Thank You for Arguing”, Jay Heinrichs.

EAS 253: Fundamentals of the Climate System. "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast" by David Archer. Secondary text: "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling. Past texts: "Don't Even Think About It" by George Marshall, "Guestimation" by Lawrence Weinstein and John Adam, “The Discovery of Global Warming” by Spencer Weart.

EAS 403: Air Pollution, working through problems in "Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry" by Daniel Jacob.

EAS 530: Journal club. Check out Teammates for peer review.

EAS 531: Communication in Science. “The Art of Being a Scientist: A guide for Graduate Students and their Mentors”, Roel Snieder and Ken Larner.

EAS 5110: Hands-on lab to learn WRF (Weather Research & Forecasting model).

MOS-506: Environmental Aspects of Sustainability: Guest lectures on atmospheric science.