Teaching Portfolio

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Goals/Philosophy
 Courses Offered
 Supervisees and research projects

Goals and Philosophy

In teaching I try to ensure that all courses have clear goals and offer a toolbox of skills which students can directly transfer to their research.  My topical interests include global change for non-majors, meteorology and climatology, climate and society, dynamics and paleoclimatology of ENSO, physics of climate, Quaternary paleoclimatology and paleoecology, spatiotemporal statistics and data analysis, and field and laboratory practica. 

As a research mentor I encourage an informal, respectful, collaborative environment.  If I have done my job properly, students and postdocs emerge with a deep understanding of the nature of paleodata, strong analytical and quantitative skills, exposure to a hierarchy of climatological models, and a global perspective.  They can manage long-term tasks, publish in the peer-reviewed literature, win research and training grants, and speak clearly about their work.

Courses Offered
Number
 Title
 Last offering/assessment
GEOL 489/789
 Principles of Geosciences
 Fall 2009 @ Maryland
GEOL 437
Global Climate Change Spr 2009 @ Maryland
ATMO/GEOS597e Spatiotemporal Data Analysis Workshop Fall 2008 @ Arizona
ATMO/GEOS 595c Patterns and Mechanisms of decadal climate variability Spr 2008 @ Arizona
NATS101 Introduction to Global Change/Honors
 Fall 2007 @ Arizona
NATS101
 Intro to Global Change, "AIT" section Fall 2007 @ Arizona
GEOS595e Journal Club: Topics in Dendrochronology Spr 2007 @ Arizona
ATMO/GEOS513 ENSO: Past, Present, Future Spr 2006 @ Arizona
GEO101IN Weather and Climate Spr 2005 @ TOCC
GEOS595e
 Topics, Tools and Techniques in Paleoclimate Research Spr 2004 @ Arizona


Supervisees and their research projects

Name
 Dept.
 Topic
 Degree
Nick Gava
 UMD/GEOL
 TBD
 M.S. (exp) 2011
Matt Glazewski
 UMD/GEOL
 Forecasting Bias in a greenhouse world
 M.S. (exp) 2012
Suz Tolwinski
 UA/Applied Math
 Bayesian hierarchical modeling of paleoclimates
 Ph.D. (exp) 2011
Adam Csank
 UA/GEOS/LTRR
 Arctic paleoclimatology (w/ S.W. Leavitt)
 Ph.D. (exp) 2010
Ruth Penniston
 UA/ENVS
 Australian isotope dendroclimatology
 B.S. (exp) 2010
Megan Rheaume
 UA/GEOS
 Australian isotope dendroclimatology B.S. (exp) 2009
Ana Kursinski
 UA/ATMO
 GPSRO water vapor retrievals and ENSO prediction
 Postdoc 2008-09
Sarah White
 UA/EEB
 stable isotope laboratory manager M.S. (exp) 2010
R. Scott St. George
 UA/GEOL/LTRR
 south central Canadian hydrology (w/ D.M. Meko)
 Ph.D. 2007
Kevin Anchukaitis
 UA/GEOS/LTRR
 Cloud forest paleoclimatology
 Ph.D. 2007
Brooke Rabe
 UA/Math
 tree-ring and climate modeling
 B.S. (exp) 2009
Mau-Chuang Foo
 UA/ECE
 Cloud forest paleoclimatology B.S. 2008
Jonathan Buchanan
 UA/Physics
 stable isotope laboratory manager
 B.S. 2007
Erin Gleeson
 UA/GEOS
 Peruvian dendroclimatology
 B.S. 2006
Cristina Luis UA/GEOS
 State space analysis of ENSO activity
 M.S. 2004
Brianna Muhlenkamp
 UA/Engineering
 tree-ring and climate modeling
 B.S. 2005
Praveen Kundurthy
 UA/Astrophys-Biol
 Peruvian dendroclimatology
 B.S. 2005
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