TEACHING INTERESTS
My teaching interests include hydrology and
Geographical Information Systems. I particularly
enjoy teaching interdisciplinary courses on
various aspects of watershed hydrologic,
climatologic and geomorphic processes.

This semester I am teaching :

Computational Methods in Field Science (ESC350)

This required course for earth science majors
covers basic statistics and data analysis techniques.
The course provides students with a “Tool Kit” of
mathematical and graphical approaches to analyze,
visualize and interpret data collected in the earth
and meteorological sciences. Techniques include
how to use statistics to assess probability, test
significance, and the creation of histograms, box plots,
probability diagrams, and rose diagrams.

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Weather Lab (ESC211)

A 3 hour laboratory that teaches students how
to create and interpret surface and upper
atmospheric weather maps. Students are also
introduced to garp, the UNIX based software for
plotting and interpreting weather data.

Technology and Society (DCC400)

This is a mutildiscplinary seminar course on
the impact that technology has had in our society.
We focus a considerable amount of time on recent
technological advances where there is considerable
ethical controversy on whether the technology
should be used. This is a project oriented course
and this year's theme is an analysis of the bias in the
media in regards to the '04 presidential election.

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I have also taught in the past (at the University of Michigan):

Hydrology and Watershed Management (NRE432)

A course in surface water hydrology, that focuses
on near-surface hydrological and geomorphological
processes that control surface runoff and non point
source pollution. The course also introduces some of
the commonly used hydrological models that are
used to study watershed scale hydrological
processes such as HEC-HMS. The course includes
field laboratories on channel surveying, stream
gaging, shallow well installation and permeability
measurements.

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GIS Applications in Natural Resources (NRE540)

This is a practical, hands-on course in Geographical
Information Systems for upper level undergraduate
and graduate students. The course provides enough
experience with GIS software, that students are able
to carry out sophisticated spatial analyses, and
incorporate GIS techniques in addressing their particular
thesis problem.

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And once upon a time at Hobart-William Smith Colleges:

Introduction to Geological Processes and Material (GEO180)

An introductory course on geological processes and materials
(for Earth science majors) that uses real world environmental problems
to illustrate basic science concepts.