Teaching

I specialize in geography, environmental studies, and geospatial technology courses and offer technology-driven teaching methods and research capacity-building workshops for university faculty. I am particularly interested in experiential learning, especially how to better guide students on more meaningful domestic and international travel/research trips. My classrooms are designed to be interactive, open, and very inclusive.

I am honored that the students of my previous university voted me “Teacher of the Year” in 2014/15. In 2016, I published an article in the Geography Teacher exploring resource extraction in Mongolia and the Bakken formation of North America that was awarded the “Best Lesson Plan of the Year” by the National Council for Geographic Education.

Finally, I continue to support the development of geographic education in K-12 and served for a number of years as an elected member of the Board of Directors in the North Dakota Geographic Alliance. I am also a graduate of the ESRI Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS program and present at and organize sessions for teacher continuing education workshops.