Teaching

  • Guest Lecturer | MPO 511/611: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I (Fall 2018)
    University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS)

  • Guest Lecturer | MPO 511/611: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics I (Fall 2019)
    University of Miami RSMAS

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant | MSC 112: Introduction to Marine Science Laboratory (Fall 2019)
    University of Miami RSMAS

    • Led ten (10) lab sessions that utilized RSMAS research facilities, in-house expertise, and local marine environments and habitats to provide freshmen with a survey of topics in marine science

  • Co-leader (invited) | Teaching Assistant Training Workshop (Fall 2019)
    University of Miami RSMAS

    • Day-long training for new RSMAS Teaching Assistants covering best practices for classroom instruction; fostering professionally appropriate relationships with instructor and students; assessment, grading, and rubrics; and addressing “sticky situations”

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant | MSC 301: Introduction to Physical Oceanography (Fall 2018)
    University of Miami RSMAS
    TA Excellence Award based on nominations by and feedback from students and course instructor

    • Developed and led weekly mini-lab sessions to teach programming in R for 20 undergraduate upperclassmen with little to no previous coding experience; delivered lectures covering wind-driven ocean circulation, western boundary currents, vorticity, and instability; and facilitated student learning and achievement through supplemental instruction and mentorship via weekly office hours

  • Invited Speaker | RSMAS Lunch Bytes Seminar Series (Fall 2018)
    University of Miami RSMAS

    • “Peeking under the hood of an artificial neural network”: talk tailored to students, faculty, and staff inexperienced in – yet curious about – machine learning

  • Guest Lecturer (invited) | MAR 110: Natural Hazards and the Oceans (Fall 2015)
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology

    • Topic: Short-term climate variability and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Outreach

I have showcased marine science and ocean observation to school kids of all ages, including high school freshmen from Tabor Academy in Marion, MA; fourth graders from Carney Academy in New Bedford, MA; Horace Mann Middle School in Miami, FL; Miami-Dade Public School kids through a variety of RSMAS outreach events and summer programs; and Miami Piano Slam. Talks are always catered to the age group, but usually end up focused on autonomous robots and other data collection platforms.

I have also participated in a variety of larger community events such as the New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival (New Bedford, MA) and University of Delaware Coast Days (Lewes, DE).

While I worked at the UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), I programmed a simple Slocum glider mission that directed the glider to dive and resurface in the 90,000 gallon SMAST instrument test tank to demonstrate its behavior and bouyancy-driven motion while visitors could watch from the overhead platforms or through the viewing windows on the sides of the tank.