Teaching

Teaching Experience

Instructor Positions

• BIOL 490: Wetland Ecology in a Changing World (Duke University, 2021)

• Duke Data Expedition (2019)

• Girls on Outdoor Adventure for Leadership and Science - GALS (2017-2018)

Teaching Assistant Positions

• BIOL 153: Climate, Coffee, and Coronavirus (Duke University, 2020)

• EEB 230: Evolution & Functional Traits (Yale University, 2016)

• EVST 190: Trees: Environmental Biology (Yale University, 2015)

• CHEM 361: Physical Chemistry (Williams College, 2012)

• CHEM 251: Organic Chemistry II (Williams College, 2011)

• CHEM 156: Organic Chemistry I (Williams College, 2011)

• CHEM 153: Advanced Intro Chemistry (Williams College, 2010)

Course Design

• Wetland Ecology in a Changing World is a 400-level senior capstone course I designed for Duke's Biology Department as a bid for a competitive Bass Teaching Fellowship. My course was selected, and I taught as the Instructor of Record in Spring 2021. The syllabus can be found here.

• Data Analysis for Ecological Modeling is a learning module I co-designed for a Duke Data Expedition. The module including R markdown files can be found here.

• Girls on Outdoor Adventure for Leadership and Science (GALS) is a free summer science program for high school students who identify as female or gender nonconforming, students of color, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and other groups underrepresented in fields of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). In addition to adapting college-level ecology material to lessons appropriate for high school students, I designed an original lesson based around sustainable forest management in Pisgah National Forest, which is the location of the program. The GALS curriculum is publicly available and can be found here.

Pedagogical Training

• Duke Certificate in College Teaching (CCT) completed Spring 2021:

  • GS 750: Introduction to College Teaching

  • GS 755: Course Design

  • GS 760: College Teaching and Visual Communication (currently enrolled)

  • I participated in Duke CCT's Teaching Triangles program for peer observation and feedback during instruction.

• Duke Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) in 2020-2021

  • This program provides a yearlong experience for PhD students and postdocs to prepare them for the multiple roles they may be asked to assume as future faculty members in a variety of academic institutions.

Mentoring

• Duke Data+ Big Data Initiative - I mentored a team of undergraduate students through this 10-week summer program to apply data science approaches to mapping coastal wetland change. Student team learned programming in Google Earth Engine JavaScript to map perform environmental analyses with satellite imagery data.

• I have mentored several undergraduate research assistants, two honors thesis student, and one high school student summer intern from the NC School of Science and Math.