Teaching and field trips
I teach some of the geology field courses at UNR, and Direct our Summer Field Camp. These classes help students connect concepts they learn in the classroom setting to actual geologic exposures on Earth, which can be rather messy and imperfect. We teach students to conduct start-to-finish geology projects over a variety of themes, including Quaternary geology, metamorphic and plutonic complexes, and bedrock mapping involving intrusive and extrusive volcanic rocks. Check out the UNR Summer Field Camp page.
As a key component of field and structural geology courses, I incorporate hands-on activities including playdough and sandbox experiments. Analogue modeling can be used for both research and teaching to understand continental deformation (see photo below and our paper in EPSL).
In Fall 2016, I co-led an Earth Science week field trip around the Reno and Pyramid Lake region. [Field trip guide]
As a key component of field and structural geology courses, I incorporate hands-on activities including playdough and sandbox experiments. Analogue modeling can be used for both research and teaching to understand continental deformation (see photo below and our paper in EPSL).
In Fall 2016, I co-led an Earth Science week field trip around the Reno and Pyramid Lake region. [Field trip guide]
Courses taught
University of Nevada, Reno
- GEOL 701B: Crustal process: from structure to its dynamics
- GEOL 731: Advanced Structural Geology
- GEOL 701G: Advanced topics in structural geology
- GEOL 701Z: Solid-Earth Seminar
- GEOL 451: Summer Field Camp
- GEOL 260: Introductory Field Geology
- GEOL 410: Field geology
- EPS 121: Summer field camp
- EPS 16: Major Events in the History of Life
- EPS 112: Structural Geology