Teaching and Mentorship

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI):

Graduate Student Mentor (2022–2024)

Ecosystem Science in the Rockies (2022; field course)

Earth Surface Processes (2021 [online], 2022) (Received 2023 GeoClub Outstanding GSI Award)

Teaching Design:

Developed a lab for a geomicrobiology core course focusing on microbialite morphology (2024)

Undergraduate Research Experience Program Development (2023)

Lecturing about the microbes of Yellowstone near Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park at sunset while teaching for Ecosystem Science of the Rockies in Summer 2022.

MENTORSHIP

During my time at University of Michigan, I had the opportunity to individually mentor three undergraduate students, including a senior thesis student, as well as providing support to other undergraduate researchers in the lab. I have trained students on various research techniques and lab protocols and supported some of them on individual research projects leading to conference presentations. I have also provided support for these and other students in the graduate school and job application process.

For two academic years (one as the lead), I served as one of the Graduate Student Mentors (GSMs) for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, a graduate student instructor position responsible for training GSIs in the department and supporting GSIs throughout the term. This role also frequently serves as an interface between graduate students and administration within the department, organizing student town halls and providing advice to fellow graduate students.