Teaching
Missouri State University
GRY 135: Principles of Weather and Climate
(Fall'22, 23; Spring'23)This 4-credit course is designed to provide the students with a fundamental understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere, weather phenomenon, and changes in climate. This course will introduce you to various aspects of weather and climate, including but not limited to global air circulation, cloud formation, precipitation processes, atmospheric stability, and large-scale climate processes such as ENSO. This course will emphasize the basic physical principles and processes essential to understanding Earth’s changing climate.
GRY 351: Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
(Spring'23)This 3-credit course intends to provide an overview of Earth’s natural resources and how we can manage them in a sustainable manner. This course understands ‘sustainability’ as social and economic well-being as well as environmental conservation. It is expected that by the end of this course, the students will have an understanding of Earth’s natural resources and components of and approaches to sustainable management of these resources.
GRY 545/645: Global Environmental Change
(Fall'23)This 3-credit course analyzes pressing issues such as climate change, population pressure, deforestation, pollution, globalization, and sustainability, while also examining potential adaptation and mitigation strategies. By critically evaluating the scientific, social, and economic aspects of global environmental change, this course aims to cultivate a profound understanding of the interconnectedness between nature and society.
University of Michigan
EAS 501: Social Vulnerability and Adaptation to Environmental Change
(Spring'22)This 1.5-credit course will introduce students to social vulnerability and adaptation concepts and methods. The course will explore theories and methods for investigating social vulnerability and adaptation from an environmental policy and management perspective. Students will get an in-depth understanding of social vulnerability and adaptation and learn methods and skills to evaluate exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity and design vulnerability assessments and adaptation plans.
Arizona State University
GPH 314: Global Change
(Summer'18)This course explores the biophysical and socioeconomic processes that are altering the functions of social, economic, and biophysical systems at the planetary-scale and their interconnectedness to one another. People, communities, and the natural systems on which they depend are exposed to social, economic and environmental change happening at the global scale. Through our ever-increasing population along with our mastery of technology, we have been changing global systems at a fast pace. The accelerated pace of market interactions and globalization is also driving social-environmental system to a critical level. Demographic change and migration of people have produced new opportunities for people to access material resources enabling them to mitigate risks, while conversely producing new forms of risks. This course provides an overview of the dominant processes that are changing societies and environments. At the end of the course, the students are expected to understand the natural and social processes involved in global change and develop knowledge on the key actions taken by us to deal with global change.
GPH 112: Introduction to Physical Geography Lab
(Fall'15,16,17,18 and Spring'15,16,17,18,19)This course introduces students to earth system processes and natural hazards. This course examines how these processes take place, how they change the surface of the world, and how they impact human lives. The students will learn the fundamentals of physical geography that includes time zone, atmosphere, plate tectonics. They will also get the opportunity to obtain hands-on training on the use of GPS and Google Earth. At the end of the course, it is expected that the students will learn about earth surface and atmospheric processes. This course intends to build the foundation of physical geography.