Teaching

Mentoring

Courses taught:

• Teaching Assistant: Physical Geology Laboratory (UMD GEOL110), Spring 2019 and 2020
• Teaching Assistant: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Laboratory (UMD GEOL342), Fall 2017
• Teaching Assistant: Earth's Environments (Oberlin GEO120), Fall 2013

I have mentored undergraduate researchers in the context of senior honors theses, REUs, and the UNAVCO RESESS program.  These projects involved hands-on geochemical, microstructural, and petrologic analysis, and guidance in scientific writing and public speaking. Students have made public presentations at department and university research symposia and AGU Fall Meetings (Boak et al., 2019; Pike et al., 2022). My mentees have gone on to be hired at governmental agencies and admitted into graduate programs in the geosciences.

At the University of Washington, I am mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students within the Structural Petrology Lab. 

I am currently working and living on unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples that touch the shared waters of the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot. Much of my research has been carried out on lands of the Tongva, Diné, and Piscataway peoples. I respectfully and humbly thank the Coast Salish, Tongva, Diné, and Piscataway ancestors, elders, and citizens for their ongoing stewardship of these lands and affirm their sovereignty in the face of continued dispossession and settler-colonialism