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“While I enjoy teaching all my courses, my favorite class to teach is EES 456 - Coastal Geologic Hazards. In that course, we cover topics ranging from coastal landforms and processes to the current and future risk of shoreline change, coastal erosion, and sea level rise. The final project involves a hands-on case study working with a local non-profit to help examine vulnerabilities of the community to storms and sea level rise.”
“My research focuses on applied topics related to coastal, glacial, and marine geology, primarily in the northeastern United States. This ranges from mapping areas of the seafloor to understand the geologic habitats and resources to measuring changes to the shoreline at timescales ranging from century's down to the impact of a single storm event. Many of these projects are interdisciplinary working with benthic ecologists, soil scientists and coastal engineers.”
“Working with students on research projects. Taking students into the field and showing them how to conduct research, collect data and then work to analyze the data and finally present the data at a research conference is a super rewarding experience. Seeing these students go on and prosper after graduation, and in some cases even become colleagues is such a fantastic journey to take with them. Many of the student projects also dovetail with larger research projects so it also allows me to move my research projects forward.”
Taking students into the field and showing them how to conduct research, collect and analyze data and then present the data at a research conference is a super rewarding experience.
“Get involved with fieldwork as much as possible. Be versatile. I am able to do what I do because while I am trained as a geologist I have collaborated with coastal planners and managers, biologists, soil scientists and coastal engineers. Working with them on a variety of projects has expanded my skillset to work on a variety of different research projects.”