AWARDS
2015-16 Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) Outstanding Teaching Assistant, $100.
TEACHING GRANTS
2018 Travel funding for undergraduate students to present research at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual conference in Reno, NV. Instructionally Related Activities Grant (IRA), CSU Maritime. $3,000.
2017 Travel funding for undergraduate students to present research at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual conference in Chico, CA. Instructionally Related Activities Grant (IRA), CSU Maritime. $1,750.
2017 Course Redesign of GMA 105: Ocean Politics for increased retention. Provost’s Curriculum Redesign Grant, CSU Maritime. $1,000.
2016 GPS Coastline Measurement and Mapping. Purchase of handheld GPS units to use in new course, GMA 395 GIS Mapping & Spatial Analysis. Instructionally Related Activities Grant (IRA), CSU Maritime. $1,500.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Courses
2023-24 Technology & Social Control. Twente, spring [co-taught].
2023-24 Master’s thesis. Twente, fall, spring [co-taught].
2021-23 Science & Society. Oldenburg, fall.
2011 Computer Cartography (ArcGIS). Arizona, summer.
Undergraduate courses
2024 Environmental Values & Sustainable Transformation. Twente, fall, [co-taught].
2024 Sustainability and Technology. Twente, spring, fall.
2021-23 Global Climate Change: Challenges & Perspectives. Oldenburg, fall, [co-taught].
2018-20 Ocean Environmental Management. California State University Maritime, spring.
2017-20 Comparative Maritime Policies. CSUM, spring.
2017-20 GIS Mapping & Spatial Analysis (ArcGIS). CSUM, spring.
2019 Political Geography. CSUM, spring.
2019 Citizen Environmental Science. CSUM, spring.
2016-19 Ocean Politics. CSUM, fall.
2016-19 Environmental Policy. CSUM, fall
2016 Comparative Politics. CSUM, fall.
2016 Our Diverse Biosphere. Arizona, spring [teaching assistant].
2015 Political & Cultural Geog. of Globalization. Arizona, spring [teaching assistant].
2015 Introduction to Sustainable Development. Arizona, spring.
2015 Our Changing Climate. Arizona, winter [online].
2014-15 Introduction to Physical Geography. Arizona, summer [online].
2013 Environment and Society. Arizona, winter [online].
2012,15 Our Dynamic Landscape. Arizona, fall.
2012 Geog. Applications of Remote Sensing (ERDAS). Arizona, spring [lab instructor].
2012 GIS for Natural & Social Sciences (ArcGIS). Arizona, spring [lab instructor]
2011 Introduction to Remote Sensing (ERDAS). Arizona, fall [lab instructor].
2007-08 Weather and Climate. Arizona, fall, spring [teaching assistant].
MENTORSHIP
Postdoctorate
2023-26 Primary advisor, Amelia Hine, “Baselines and biofutures.” Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, DE (HIFMB).
2022-23 Postdoc secondary advisor, Satya Savitsky, “‘Invasibility’ and marine organisms: managing the mobilities of marine organisms,” HIFMB.
Doctorate
2022-26 Secondary advisor, Vani Sreekanta, “Southern Ocean in excess: fluid places, frozen governance.” University of Oldenburg (UO).
2022-25 Secondary advisor, Soli Levi, “Emotional governance: The place of feelings in marine management.” UO.
2021-25 Primary advisor, Solomon Sebuliba, “Biodiversity, Scale and Spatial Differences In The Governance Of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.” UO.
2021-24 Primary advisor, Merdeka Agus Saputra, “Go Offshore, Go Deeper: Benthic Geopolitics off the Bangka and Belitung Islands, Indonesia.” UO. http://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/7036/.
Masters
2023-24 Thesis supervisor, Alyssa Delarosa, “Towards a spatially and epistemically just Earth system boundary.” Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society MSc., University of Twente, NL. https://essay.utwente.nl/103203/.
2019 Thesis examiner, Emerald Naylor, “More than sun and pineapples: a look into the culture of astronomical sciences in Hawai’i.” Island Studies M.A., University of Prince Edward Island, CA. https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir:22892.
Undergraduate
2021-22 Thesis advisor, Keven Rosenboom, “Capitalism and the ecological rift in the industrial aquaculture of Octopus vulgaris,” B.S. Environmental Sciences, UO.
2022 Internship advisor, Jannik Reinema, “The disconnected definitions of California’s water: An exploration of the colonial ideology behind today’s water problems”, Environmental Sciences, UO.
2022 Internship advisor, Anne Wolfgramm, “The emerging industry of deep-sea mining and social perspectives in the Kingdom of Tonga.”Environmental Sci., UO.
2020 Team advisor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Collegiate Wind Competition, Cal Maritime policy team students.
2017 Thesis supervisor, Lizzie Orr “Legal construction of ocean jurisdictions,” B.A. Global Studies, CSUM.
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