My role as a teacher and mentor is to help my students develop excellent skills in critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and written communication, while observing and interpreting landscapes in the field. My teaching relies heavily on GIS (including ArcMap and Google Earth), field trips, and table-top sediment transport experiments.
The files below are an example of Google Earth lab activites I wrote as a graduate student at the University of Oregon for Geology 308: Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a course for non-majors. The goal of this lab was to introduce students to the morphology and hazards of the Willamette River, which runs through Eugene. The lab materials consist of a handout, two .kmz files, and a PDF of the City of Eugene flood hazard map.
Lab 5 Willamette River handout
City of Eugene flood hazard map