Teaching experience

Teaching methods

My courses are based on lectures with a high degree of student active learning (e.g. discussions, experiments, group work, quizzes, etc.), student-centered seminars, laboratory exercises and demonstrations, and field work components including teaching cruises onboard research vessels. I employ a variety of assessment methods (formative & summative) to enhance learning. I am competent in in person and online teaching on a range of platforms and actively use online class room management systems to provide course material ranging from lecture slides to short summaries of class content with self-produced videos and student activities.

Courses I teach/have taught:

since 2015 - BIO-2516 Ocean Climate (10 ECTS, BSc level), UiT, Tromsø, Norway - course leader and main lecturer

since 2015 - BIO-2010 Marine Ecology (10 ECTS, BSc level), UiT - contributing lecturer

since 2022 - BIO-1501 Akvatisk Økologi/FSK-1120 Akvatisk biologi for fiskeri- og havbruksvitenskap (10 ECTS, BSc level), UiT - contributing lecturer

since 2023 - BIO-3031 Biophysical Interactions in Marine Ecosystems (5 ECTS, MSc level), UiT - course co-leader

since 2014 - Oceanography (6 ECTS, Master level), University Centre of the Westfjords, Ísafjörður, Iceland - course leader and sole lecturer

Feb 2020 - Nansen Legacy intensive course “Arctic Ocean functioning: interdisciplinary perspectives from geology to ecosystems” (3 ECTS, PhD/Postdoc level), UiT - lecturer

2015-2019 - BIO-3015/8020 Arctic Marine System Ecology: MSc/PhD level course at UiT (10 ECTS)

Sep 2017 - VID-6020 Arktis miljø, Maritim arktisk kompetanse, UiT - lecturer

Mar/Apr 2014 - Winter School on Sea Ice Variability in the Arctic (PhD/Postdoc), CAGE, UiT, Norway - lecturer

Oct 2013 - Environmental Monitoring from Satellite (MSc), UiT - guest lecturer

Aug 2013 - Arctic Earth Observations Techniques summer school (PhD/postdoc), Norwegian Centre for Space- related Education, Andøya Rocket Range and UiT - lecturer

Sep 2012 - Introduction to Physical Oceanography (BSc), University of Bergen, Norway - guest lecturer

2011 - Workshop for secondary school science teachers, Polaria, Tromsø, Norway - organisor & facilitator

2010 - Workshop for Norwegian and Russian students as part of the Tromsø City Council project “Young researchers in the Barents region”, UiT - organisor & facilitator

Jul-Aug 2010 - British Schools Exploring Society Coastal Svalbard mountaineering and kayaking expeditions to Svalbard - chief scientist  (guiding & mentoring young people (16-20 yr) on an expedition)

Jul-Aug 2009 - British Schools Exploring Society Arctic Norway mountaineering and kayaking expeditions to northern Norway - chief scientist (guiding & mentoring young people (16-20 yr) on an expedition)

2006 - Introduction to Physical Oceanography (BSc), UEA, UK - tutor

2002-2003 - Mathematics in Biological Sciences 1 & 2 (Diplom), CvO University, Oldenburg, German - tutor