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).

Left:
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).