Sara E Harris | |
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Title | Professor of Teaching |
Awards | 3M National Teaching Fellow, 2015 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Oregon State University |
Thesis | The Atlantic, the Amazon, and the Andes : neogene climate and tectonics viewed from Ceara Rise, western tropical Atlantic (1998) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Science education,climate science,paleoclimate |
Institutions | Faculty of Science Department of Earth,Ocean &Atmospheric Sciences The University of British Columbia |
Notable works | "Understanding Climate Change:Science,Policy and Practice" by Sarah Burch and Sara Harris,2014. University of Toronto Press. Available here:http://www.utppublishing.com/Understanding-Climate-Change-Science-Policy-and-Practice.html |
Website | https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/faculty/S.Harris.html |
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]
Sara Harris obtained her PhD in Geological Oceanography from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences,Oregon State University in 1998. [6]
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]
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]
Burch,Sarah;Harris,Sara (2014-07-03). Understanding Climate Change:Science,Policy,and Practice University of Toronto Press,Scholarly Publishing Division. ISBN 9781442614451. [16] [17]
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