Teaching
Classes
09/2025-08/2026 Academic Year
Solid Earth Processes, GEO 416E, Spring 2026
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2026
09/2024-08/2025 Academic Year
Habitable Planets: Sci-Fiction, UGS 303, Spring 2025
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2025
Science and Fiction of Habitable Planets, NCKU Summer Short Course, 2024
09/2023-08/2024 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Fall 2023
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2024
Science and Fiction of Habitable Planets, NCKU Summer Short Course, 2024
09/2022-08/2023 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2023
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s Mantle, GEO 391, Fall 2022 (co-taught with S. Grand)
09/2021-08/2022 Academic Year
Materials of a Habitable Planet (at Adam Mickiewicz University as a Fulbright Scholar, 2-hr credit, 15 students, Spring 2022)
Earth Materials, GEO 416K, Fall 2021
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2022
09/2020-08/2021 Academic Year
On sabbatical
09/2019-08/2020 Academic Year
Earth Materials, GEO 416K, Fall 2019
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth’s Mantle, GEO 391, Fall 2019 (co-taught with S. Grand and T. Becker)
09/2018-08/2019 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2019
Mineral Physics, GEO 391, Spring 2019
Physics and Chemistry of a Habitable Planet, One-week summer course at National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, 07/2019
09/2017-08/2018 Academic Year
Earth Materials, GEO 416K, Fall 2017
Methane Hydrates, GEO 391, Spring 2018 (co-taught with Dr. Flemings)
09/2016-08/2017 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2017
Physics of the Earth’s Interior, GEO 391, Spring 2017
09/2015-08/2016 Academic Year
Earth Materials, GEO 416K, Fall 2015
Mineral Physics, GEO 391, Spring 2016
09/2014-08/2015 Academic Year
Mineral Physics, GEO 391, Fall 2014
(Sabbatical semester in spring 2015)
09/2013-08/2014 Academic Year
Earth Materials, GEO 416K, Fall 2013
Physics of the Earth’s Interior, GEO 391, Spring 2014
09/2012-08/2013 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2013
Mineral Physics, GEO 391, Spring 2013
Technical Sessions, GEO 193, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 (co-taught with Dr. Kyle Spikes)
09/2011-08/2012 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2012
Technical Sessions, GEO 193, Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 (co-taught with Dr. Tim Shanahan)
Physics of the Earth’s Interior, GEO 391, Spring 2012 (co- taught with Dr. Steve Grand)
09/2010-08/2011 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2011
Mineral Physics, GEO 391, Spring 2011
09/2009-08/2010 Academic Year
Physical Geology, GEO 401, Spring 2010
Physics of the Earth’s Interior, GEO 391, Spring 2010
09/2008-08/2009 Academic Year
Mineral Physics, GEO 391, Spring 2008
Undergraduate Individual Course in 2008