Sara E Harris (born 1969) is a Canadian scientist,and professor in the department of Earth,Ocean,and Atmospheric Sciences,and the associate dean academic[1] in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia.[2] In 2015,she was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow for her MOOC on climate change.[3][4][5]
From 1998 to 2005,she served as the chief scientist at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole,Massachusetts.[7] In this role,she would take students out to sea for six weeks to teach methodologies for collecting oceanographic data as well as navigation and sailing.[8] She was a senior instructor at the University of British Columbia prior to becoming professor of teaching there.[9] In that role,she studies evidence-based science education[10][11] and how people learn climate science.[12] In 2013,she co-taught a massive open online course called Climate Literacy:Navigating Climate Change Conversations,[13] and later taught Climate Change:The Science on the edX platform.[14]
Teaching
Harris has taught a number of courses at the University of British Columbia,including Introduction to Environmental Science,Research Project in Environmental Science,The Fluid Earth:Atmosphere and Ocean,and Global Climate Change. [15]
Bibliography
Burch,Sarah;Harris,Sara (2014-07-03). Understanding Climate Change:Science,Policy,and Practice University of Toronto Press,Scholarly Publishing Division. ISBN9781442614451.[16][17]
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