Teaching
Teaching Assistant for ESE144 "Climate from Space"
Caltech 2021/2 & 2023/4 Academic Years"Climate from Space" is a mixed undergraduate and graduate level class aimed at introducing students to the use of satellite remote sensing to study the Earth's climate system. The class takes a non-traditional structure, being coordinated by Andrew Thompson (Caltech), Joao Teixeria (NASA JPL), and myself, but with lectures presented entirely by guest lecturers from NASA JPL. This gives students the opportunity to learn about different Earth observing satellite systems from the scientists who work most directly with them. In my role as Teaching Assistant, I developed and guided students through coding exercises that demonstrated how to find and utilize data from the missions touched on in guest lectures. I also assisted with class logistics and coordinated grading.
Teaching Assistant for ESE102 "Earth's Oceans"
Caltech 2022/3 Academic Year"Earth's Oceans" is a mixed undergraduate and graduate level class and a compulsory credit for students in Caltech's Environmental Science and Engineering graduate program. The course introduced students to physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, with the overarching aim of deriving an understanding of the ocean's role in the Earth's climate system under steady state and climate change conditions. I was one of two TAs for this course, assisting Joern Callies (Caltech) primarily by grading assessments and holding office hours. The course drew on the textbook "Ocean Dynamics and the Climate System: Principles and Mechanisms" by Richard Williams and Michael Follows.
In addition to standard TA duties, I presented a lecture on the cycling and transport of nutrients and carbon.
Mentor to a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) student
Caltech Summer 2023I mentored a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) exchange student, Emma Beniston from Cambridge University, for the summer of 2023 alongside Scott Conn (Graduate Student) and Andrew Thompson (Professor). She worked on a project entitled "Effect of Bathymetry on the Dynamics of Southern Ocean Subpolar Gyres" that involved setting up, running, and analyzing Oceananigans simulations, and delving into gyre theory.
Lab Teaching Assistant for PHYS3034 "Physics of Fluid Flows"
Australian National University 2018 Academic Year"Physics of Fluid Flows" is an upper level undergraduate class on environmental fluid physics. The course has a significant laboratory component hosted at the ANU's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab. In my role as lab TA assisting Kial Stewart, I graded lab reports and guided students through classic environmental fluid experiments such as baroclinic instability in a rotating tank, lock exchange gravity currents, side wall double diffusive convection, and hydraulic jumps.
Residential Hall Academic Advisor
Australian National University 2016 and 2017 Academic YearsI held a position on the "Academic Team" of ANU's Burton and Garran residential hall, a large dorm environment housing ~500 students, for 2 years during my undergraduate studies. This role involved managing the in house library, providing peer tutelage (primarily to english second language students), coordinating peer study groups, and organizing panel discussions on interdisciplinary academic topics (e.g. "The Legal Personhood of the Whanganui River, NZ", "The Antarctic Treaty: Past, Present, and Future", and "Harm Reduction Drug Policy") as well as formal dinners and networking events with students and faculty. This gave me a lot of experience with event management and discussion facilitation, in particular. I thoroughly enjoyed helping break down barriers between students and faculty preventing students from reaching out