About Me

Greetings! Life-long learner here. I am a PhD student of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability in the School of Earth & Sustainability at
Northern Arizona University

Two decades of teaching K-12 and college/university and I am enjoying it.

I am an Earth Science teacher, climate scientist, and passionate about contributing to K-12 - university education pedagogy/andragogy with focus on the Next Generation Science Standards, Sustainability Development Goals, traditional ecological knowledge, and inspiring the next generation of Earth, Air, and Water protectors.

My interests are paleoclimatology, air quality, and climate change using dust particulate matter from regional geomorphology in the Colorado Plateau and how to connect scientific research to education research in teaching and learning at the public middle and high school levels, specifically Title I.  

My project focus for my PhD is about the dust-drought cycle of the Colorado Plateau (last 3,000 years and present) and how that is translated into a curriculum aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards and State Science Standards.