Teacher

My Life’s Work  as a professor  has been to help my students become more effective planetary citizens.  That’s forty-seven years and counting of classes, field trips, labs, seminars, workshops, textbook writing, and developing online courses.   Teaching is, without doubt, my most satisfying modality for sharing the knowledge and skills I have acquired over my personal deep time. This has been the case since earning my B.S. degree in Earth Science Teaching in 1973, and a state certification as a secondary school science teacher.  My teaching ranges from first-year Honors Seminars to PhD graduates.

In 2023, the course I developed, maintain, and teach with others, ERTH 1000E – The Human Epoch: Living in the Anthropocene, won the Teaching, Learning, and Student Success Award from UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It is our department’s most highly enrolled course in multiple sections are multiple campuses and in High Schools via the Early College Experience program.

Highlights – Climate Change, Anthropocene, Communication, Dinosaurs, Honors , Graduate .

Department of Earth Sciences – Regular Teaching, Course Archive

Honors Program –  Honors Core, First-year seminars

Graduate Students – Major & Associate Advisor

Early College Experience – Our courses in High Schools

Guest Lecturing – Other Classes

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Top Photo: Chalkboard in my old office. I took this photo after a student walked in and asked me what the scribbling signified.  I couldn’t remember.  That episode helped me realize that my thinking has always been largely visual and conceptual. The picture of Millard Fillmore provokes students to ask:  “Who’s the geologist?”   Bottom Photo:  This was me at the average age of my students, about 19 years old, here coming in 6th place in a 20 mile race using an old Schwinn 10 speed with fenders.