Teaching

Courses at FSU

Fall 2024. ENT-4934, ENT-5930, MET-6155, OCC-5930, GLY-5297, MET-4159, OCE-4930, GLY-4903: "Environmental Entrepreneurship". This course gives an interdisciplinary introduction to the fundamental concepts required to undertake enterprise formation and competitive career placement at the intersection of environmental science and entrepreneurship. Topics include climatology, climate change science, statistics for environmental applications, macroeconomics and geopolitical factors that impact the environmental economy, and environmental finance and markets. Fundamental concepts will be taught through the lens of real-world applications and synthesized into subsequent lectures and case studies in environmental entrepreneurship. Although the course will focus primarily on the environment, students will be able to adapt the concepts from this course to entrepreneurship in any academic discipline.

This course is the first to be taught as part of the newly developed Bridge Initiative between the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science and the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship.

Spring 2022. Fall 2019. MET-6155 and OCP-5930: "Modes of Climate Variability / Using MATLAB for Climate Studies". This course gives a comprehensive overview of the major modes of climate variability within the atmosphere and ocean, addressing the importance of these modes as well as the mechanisms that drive them. The course will also teach the practical skills necessary for the analysis of such climate modes - there will be a strong focus on statistical methods and their application to big-data within a statistical software package – in this case, MATLAB. Students will be able to adapt these skills to any weather or climate research involving large datasets.

Spring 2023. Spring 2021. MET-6308 and OCP-5930: "Marine Meteorology". In this course, students will learn about the role of the ocean in modulating the weather, with a particular focus in the mid-latitudes. In addition to exploring the most current ideas regarding ocean-weather interactions, along the way students will also gain knowledge in the following areas: statistical techniques, mid-latitude storm dynamics, basic physical oceanography, mechanisms of air-sea interaction, as well as the representation of the aforementioned in models and observational datasets.

Spring 2020. Fall 2020. Fall 2021. Fall 2023. MET-1010: "Introduction to the Atmosphere". This course covers the structure of the atmosphere; weather processes and weather systems, including climatic processes.

Other Teaching

I have previously taught on the Climate Variability and Diagnostics course for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Graduate School Joint Program. Specific topics included tropical meteorology, mid- to high-latitude meteorology, North Atlantic climate variability, and Matlab for climate science.

I have also served as a laboratory demonstrator, classworks instructor and teaching instructor at Imperial College London. General topics included atomic physics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, applied mathematics and statistics, quantum mechanics, solid state physics and computer programming. Specialized topics included wind turbulence, solar radiation and hurricane dynamics.