Teaching Experience
Harvard University
20013 – present
Preceptor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Lecturer, Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Lecturer, HES Sustainability and Global Development Practice Graduate Programs
Responsibilities: design curriculum and program, create marketing materials, write field guides, advise students,
provide curricular support to tenured faculty, ongoing assessment of program effectiveness
Courses: Sutainable Agriculture Supply Chain; Food and Greed: The Dark Side of American Agriculture; Master's Capstone; Master's Thesis; How to Build a Habitable Planet, Energy: Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects, Natural
Disasters in a Global Environment, Wetland Science and Policy, Sustainability of Natural Resource Materials
Awards:
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Certificate of Extraordinary Teaching
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Five-time recipient of Dean’s Commendation for Distinguished Teaching Performance
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ABL Connect Teaching Innovator Prize
American University of Afghanistan
Associate Professor, Math & Science Program 2022– present
Courses: Climate Change Science, Energy in the 21st Century, Environmental Science, Wetlands Science and Policy, Sustainable Agriculture, Biological Form and Function, Natural Disasters in a Global Environment, Natural Resource Materials, Directed Study
Committees/Service: Chair of Student Success Committee, Curriculum Committee, Head of Liberal Arts Liaison Initiative
Johns Hopkins University
Course Designer, Capstone Supervisor, Adjunct Professor – present
School of Advanced International Studies, Masters in Sustainable Energy. Courses: Systems Analysis for Sustainable Energy, Capstone Advisor
Norwich University
Adjunct Professor 2020 – present
Master of Arts Strategic Studies, Bachelor of Science Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis, Bachelor of Science National Security Studies, College of Graduate and Continuing Studies Courses: Environmental Science, Sustainability Science
Boston College
Lecturer, Dept. Earth and Environmental Science
Lecturer, Woods College of Advancing 2014 – 2020
Visiting Research Scientist, Weston Observatory
Courses: Alternative Energy: Why Aren’t We There Yet?, Energy in the 21 st Century, Climate Change
Solutions, Environmental Geoscience I, Environmental Geoscience II, Sustainability Science, Natural
Disasters and Catastrophes, Eating and the Environment, Natural Resource Materials, Mobile Earth Awards:
Certificate of Excellence in Online Education; Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Teaching Award
Northeastern University
Professor of the Practice 2000 – 2013
Associate Academic Specialist, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Co-creator and Director, Energy Systems Minor, Dept. Civil Envi Engineering Adjunct Professor, Honors Program
Courses: Environmental Science, Sustainable Development, Wetlands (with lab), Introduction to College, Environment at Northeastern, Marine Resources, Biological Oceanography, Environmental Geology, Natural Disasters and Catastrophes, Methods of Inquiry: Wetlands Science and Policy, Eating and the
Environment, Environmental Pollution, Senior Thesis, The Edible Environment, Physical Oceanography, Directed Study, Dynamic Earth (with lab), Hydrogeology (with lab), Groundwater
Geochemistry (with lab), Hydrology, Water Resources, Groundwater Modeling, Alternative Energy: Why Aren’t We There Yet?, Engineering Geology, Energy and the Environment Award:
Excellence in Teaching (5-time nominee, 1-time winner)
Tufts University
Lecturer, Medford, Massachusetts 2001 – present (nonconsecutive)
Course: Hydrogeology with laboratory; Community and Population Ecology
Syracuse University
1995 - 1999
Lecturer, Teaching Assistant, Basketball Program Tutor, Football Program Tutor and Mentor
Courses: Environmental Geology, Physical Geology, Historical Geology, Calculus, Biology
