The best way to learn science is to do science!
From serving as a yearlong Scientist-in-Residence to being the sole instructor for an upper-level Geochemistry course, I’ve taught, mentored, and done outreach for students from grade school through graduate school. Right: Science Friday 2014 as a Scientist-in-Residence for the Think Globally, Learn Locally program. We’re prepping pepper samples to determine how spicy they are (capsaicin content). |
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Teaching at Isocamp 2017. Carbon isotopes are great isotopes! Right: The University of Michigan Earth DEI Pod, 2020. See the pod deliverables here. |
Valencia, an undergraduate mentee, presenting her research on how field sampling methodologies affect leaf wax n-alkane metrics at the 2023 Midwest Geobiology Symposium.
She will also be giving a talk at AGU 2023! Check out her presentation, PP12B-03, on Monday, December 11th (13:42-13:52 in room 3022). |