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I am actively teaching in the College of Engineering at Notre Dame their First Year Engineering courses. Please refer to Notre Dame's resources on these classes.
FLI Summer 2025 Class
Had the absolute privilege of teaching a public-facing class this summer through the Forever Learning Institute, titled “Dam Failures, Tsunamis, and Storms (How Hazards Become Disasters).”
This five-week course, which I originally developed through the GLOBES at the University of Notre Dame program, was a pilot. I designed the course to share how geohazards interface with society. At the core of the class was a key idea: disasters are not natural...they occur at the intersection of environmental events and societal vulnerability.
Teaching a field school on the Aran Islands, Ireland.
Pictured on Inishmaan, Ireland with some field school participants.
2024| Teaching St. Croix ISROC Field School
Teaching assistant for the inaugural ISROC (Inundation Signatures on Rocky Coastlines) Field School on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
Contributed to the 'behind-the-scenes' tasks, such as roommate assignments and participant accommodations,
Taught novel method on 3D boulder modeling (publication in prep-stay tuned if you are interested)
Field trips included snorkeling at Buck Island Island Reef National Monument, in-depth examinations of rocky coastline features at Hams Bluff (including boulders!), and investigating the salt pond features and sediment transport at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge.
2024 | Teaching: CE63500 (graduate-level)
2023-2024 - Co-instructor of 1-credit seminar. Responsibilities: Co-organized lecture series, reimbursement from social events associated with the seminar, and marketing materials to maximize student attendance. Funded by CEEES department. Lectured on 'Time Management'.
2023-2024 - Main organizer and co-leader of the seminar. Selected co-leaders to be representative of CEEES three sub-disciplines for PhD programs (environmental fluid dynamics, geochemistry, and structural engineering). Same responsibilities as above.
2022-2023 - Co-organized lecture series and curricula activities to maximize engagement and assist with first-year graduate students' transition to Notre Dame. (Co-led with Sabrina Volponi and Mariana Kassien). Gave lectures on 'Time Management' and 'Networking'.
2023| Teaching United States - Ireland Rocky Coastline Field School
Taught at Kylemore Abbey and Aran Islands, Ireland - including classroom and field-based modules on storm-driven coastal.
Field school size: 15 US or Ireland-based undergraduate students.
Geology Teaching Assistant- Spring Break Geology Field Trip (CE 45200)
Photos from 2024 Class
Photos from 2023 Class
Big Bend, Carlsbad Caverns, Guadalupe Peak National Parks
• Instructed students how to take strikes/dips with Brunton compasses, how to take field notes, and
learning to identify minerals, rocks, geomorphological features (landslides, fluvial geomorphological features, and rockfalls/talus aprons), and structural geology (horsts, calderas, grabens, and faults)
• Hiked ~10 miles per day through diverse and vast topography-assisting with guiding students
• Drove vehicles, assisted with planning logistics day-by-day, and came up with creative solutions to problems in the field.
Spring 2022- TA for Hydraulics Lab
Co-taught the Hydraulics lab for junior students - individually teaching the open channel flow and pump system labs. See left for the image carousel of teaching the labs!
Fall 2021 - TA for Fluid Mechanics
Although this was predominantly a grading-focused TA position, I had the opportunity to guest lecture about dams and dimensionless numbers.
Boise State University Affiliated Teaching and Tutoring Positions:
Spring 2021 Semester
Boise State University:
Teaching Assistant and Curriculum Writer for GEOS 212: Water in the West, the Boise State University Introductory Hydrology Course.
Check out the video (left) to learn about numerical modeling using HEC-RAS. Reach out if you would be interested in the module I developed!
Fall 2019 Semester
Boise State University:
Learning Assistant for GEOS 101
Boise State Academic Support Services
(Left). I am walking a student through the concept of Pangea using both Spanish and English, and whiteboard diagrams.
Central Washington University Affiliated Teaching and Tutoring Positions:
Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, & Spring 2018 Quarters
Central Washington University:
Teaching Assistant GEOL101
Department of Geology
(Left). I am teaching students how to use compasses to identify the deposition plane for basaltic (lava) rocks for Professor Nick Zentner's Geology 101 course at the Manashtash Ridge view point in Ellensburg, Washington.
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