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Recent Teaching Experience
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I teach the way I learn. My goal is to create a venue where students can be curious, get their hands dirty, make mistakes, & explore. I’m here to help students see what’s possible, not tell them what to do.

  1. Lead Instructor

    Entangled Social & Ecological Systems Field Course

    2024
    PANAMA

    5-week intensive field course for beginning graduate students that weaves together natural history, social science, tropical ecology, and cultural exchange. Students conduct both marine and terrestrial field work across Panama. This year’s course had 12 students from 7 different countries.

    Primary Duties included:

    • Design course content.
    • Guide student project design & implementation.
    • Lectures & instruction on reproducible analytical workflows using Quarto.
    • Assist students with field work.
    • Natural history of neotropical marine & terrestrial ecosystems.
    • Snorkeling & marine safety classes for students.

    Field Sites: Barro Colorado Island , Ft Sherman Canopy Crane , Pipeline Road Forests , Mount Totumas Cloud Forest , and Isla Coibita .

  2. Data Specialist & Project Coordinator

    STRI-McGill NEO Tropical Biology Field Course

    2022
    PANAMA

    A 5-week experiential field course where undergraduate and graduate students learn research techniques in biology, ecology, conservation, environmental policies, and participatory evaluation techniques while exploring marine and terrestrial ecosystems on various excursions throughout Panama.

    Primary Duties included:

    • Coordinate student project design & implementation.
    • Teach reproducible analytical workflows using R Markdown.
    • Assist students with field work.
    • Natural history of neotropical marine & terrestrial ecosystems.
    • Snorkeling & marine safety classes for students.

    Field Sites: Barro Colorado Island , Bocas del Toro , Ft Sherman Canopy Crane , Pipeline Road Forests , Agua Salud , and Isla Coiba .

    See the Course tutorial website for more information.

  3. Teaching Assistant

    STRI-McGill NEO Tropical Biology Field Course

    2020
    PANAMA

    A 5-week experiential field course where undergraduate and graduate students learn research techniques in biology, ecology, conservation, environmental policies, and participatory evaluation techniques while exploring marine and terrestrial ecosystems on various excursions throughout Panama.

    Primary Duties included:

    • Help students design and implement field projects.
    • Teach reproducible analytical workflows using R Markdown.
    • Assist students with field work.
    • Drive field trucks & coordinate field activities.
    • Snorkeling & marine safety classes for students.

    Field Sites: Barro Colorado Island , Bocas del Toro , Ft Sherman Canopy Crane , Pipeline Road Forests , Agua Salud , and Isla Coiba .

    You can chack out the Course blog to read essays by student participants or the Course tutorial website for general information.

  4. Marine Biology Instructor

    STRI-McGill NEO Tropical Biology Field Course

    2019
    PANAMA

    Part of the STRI-McGill NEO Tropical Biology Field Course, this one week module takes place in and around Isla Coiba off the Pacific coast of Panama. During this module students learn how to conduct fish surveys, assess coral reef health, and conduct field experiments.

    Primary Duties included:

    • Coordinate project design & implementation.
    • Assist students with field work.
    • Snorkeling & marine safety classes for students.

    Field Site: Isla Coibita .

  5. Creator, Organizer, & Host

    Marine Microbiome Workshop

    2018
    Bocas del Toro, PANAMA

    Workshop Title: From model organisms to ecosystems: scaling-up our understanding of host-microbe symbiosis in the sea.

    1-week intensive workshop that brought together 20 top researchers in marine ecology, symbiosis, microbiology, and chemical ecology. During this workshop we summarized and synthesized the current state of our knowledge on the mechanisms and the role of animal-microbe interactions in the sea. The goal of the workshop was to connect people working on different marine systems and discuss future research goals based on systems level approaches–to move beyond descriptive studies to synthetic eco-evolutionary dynamics.

    Primary Duties included:

    • Conceived, created & designed workshop.
    • Workshop logistics & organization.
    • Led discussions & working groups.

    See the Workshop website for more information.