Teaching and Supervisory Experience

Graduate Students - Primary

Erik Schoonover - PhD Thesis - Expected completion Fall 2025

Rory Changleng - PhD Thesis - Expected completion Fall 2026

Emily White - PhD Thesis - Expected completion Fall 2026

Renan Beckman - PhD Thesis - Expected completion Fall 2028

Cristy Stoian - MSc thesis - Completed Fall 2022

Graduate Students - Co-supervisor

Mike Belosevic - Undergraduate Thesis - University of Alberta - Completed 2015

Grayson Bilak - MSc Thesis - University of Alberta - Completed 2018

Teaching

Ongoing at Penn State

• GEOSC 001: Physical Geology 

  • A 200+ student introductory Physical Geology course for prospective majors and non-majors​

• GEOSC 401: Entrepreneurial Geoscience

  • A course delving into the current state of geoscience enterprises, new companies, fundraising trends, and startup culture. This course is directed towards geoscience students who are interested in making an impact in emerging industry-relevant geoscience fields. Discussions cover fields such as critical mineral exploration, carbon capture and storage, water resources, and Earth observation, among others.

• GEOSC 518A: Introduction to Stable Isotope Geochemistry

  • An graduate level course in stable isotope geochemistry and serves as the first module in a series of modular isotope courses. ​

• GEOSC 518E: Isotope Geochemistry in the Solid Earth

  • A second module in the graduate level curriculum in stable isotope geochemistry. Focusing on isotope uses for solid Earth geoscience.

Past Teaching at Penn State

• GEOSC 472: Field Geology Camp

  • The capstone field course for geoscience majors - co-taught by several faculty members

• GEOSC 470 (Fall 2020)

  • Intro to Field Geology 

• GEOSC 497 (Spring 2021-22)

  • The Early Solar System and Hadean Earth from a Geologist's Perspective

• GEOSC 201 (Spring 2020)

  • Earth Materials

• GEOSC 497 (Fall 2019)

  • Special Topics, The Evolution of the Continental Crust

University of Alberta

• Instructor, Precambrian Geology (EA432), 2014

• Guest Lecturer, Precambrian Geology, (EA432), 2012-2013

• Guest Lecturer, Geochemistry (EA320), 2013

• Guest Lecturer, Hudsonville High School Geology, 2011-2014

• Teaching Assistant, Igneous Petrology (EA331) 2011-2013

• Teaching Assistant, Metamorphic Petrology (EA332), 2012-2014

• Teaching Assistant, Advanced Geology Field School (EA333), 2011-2014

• Teaching Assistant, Mineralogy II (EA232), 2011

• Teaching Assistant, Mineralogy I (EA224), 2010