AWARDS
2015-16 Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) Outstanding Teaching Assistant, $100.
GRANTS
2019 Travel funding for undergraduate students to attend the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers annual conference in Flagstaff, AZ. Instructionally Related Activities Grant (IRA), CSU Maritime. $1,500.
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.
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR
2021-23 Science & Society.
2018-20 Ocean Environmental Management.
2017-20 Comparative Maritime Policies.
2017-20 GIS Mapping & Spatial Analysis (ArcGIS).
2016-19 Ocean Politics.
2016-19 Environmental Policy.
2019 Political Geography.
2019 Citizen Environmental Science.
2016 Comparative Politics.
2015 Our Changing Climate,online.
2014-15 Introduction to Physical Geography, online.
2013 Environment and Society, online.
2012,15 Our Dynamic Landscape.
2011 Computer Cartography (ArcGIS).
TEAM TEACHING
2023 Technology and Social Order, MA [F2F].
2021-23 Global Climate Change – Facts, Challenges and Perspectives, BS [F2F].
STUDY ABROAD
2019 International Experience Lead, New Zealand. 20 undergrads, 3 weeks. Themes: Seabed mining, indigenous rights, island biosecurity, Antarctic politics.
2017 International Experience Lead, Vietnam. 28 undergraduates, 3 weeks. Themes: Global shipping, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia.
LAB INSTRUCTOR
2012 Geographic Apps. of Remote Sensing, 483/583 (ERDAS).
2012 GIS for Natural & Social Sciences, 417/517 (ArcMap).
2011 Introduction to Remote Sensing, 330 (ERDAS).
TEACHING ASSISTANT
2016 Our Diverse Biosphere, 220.
2015 The Political and Cultural Geography of Globalization, 210.
2015 Introduction to Sustainable Development, 302.
2007-8 Weather and Climate, 101.
MENTORSHIP
2023-26 Postdoc Primary Advisor, Amelia Hine, “Baselines and Biofutures.” Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB).
2022-25 Postdoc Secondary Advisor, Satya Savitsky, “ ‘Invasibility’ and marine organ- isms: Managing the mobilities of marine organisms.” HIFMB.
2021-24 Ph.D. Primary Advisor, Merdeka Agus Saputra, “Seabed Mining in Indonesia Amidst Broader Benthic Geopolitics.” HIFMB, University of Oldenburg.
2021-24 Ph.D. Primary Advisor, Solomon Sebuliba, “Biodiversity in the High Seas.” HIFMB, University of Oldenburg.
2021-24 Ph.D. Secondary Advisor, Soli Levi, “Emotional Governance: The place of feel- ings in marine management.” HIFMB, University of Oldenburg.
2021-24 Ph.D. Secondary Advisor, Vani Sreekanta, “Southern Ocean in Excess: Fluid Places, Frozen Governance.” HIFMB, University of Oldenburg.
2022 B.S. Thesis Advisor, Keven Rosenboom, “Capitalism and the Ecological Rift in the Industrial Aquaculture of Octopus vulgaris.” Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg.
2022 B.S. Internship Advisor, Jannik Reinema, “The disconnected definitions of Califor- nia’s water: An exploration of the colonial ideology behind today’s water problems,.’ Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg.
2022 B.S. Internship Advisor, Anne Wolfgramm, “The emerging industry of deep-sea mining and social perspectives in the Kingdom of Tonga.” Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg.
2020 Team Advisor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Collegiate Wind Competi- tion, Cal Maritime policy team students.
2019 M.S. Thesis External Examiner, Emerald Naylor, “More than Sun and Pineapples: A Look into the Culture of Astronomical Sciences in Hawai’i.” in Island Studies at University of Prince Edward Island.
2017 B.A. Thesis Supervisor, Lizzie Orr “Legal Construction of Ocean Jurisdictions.” Global Studies, CSU Maritime.
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