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 E Harris | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Education
editSara Harris obtained her PhD in geological oceanography from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University in 1998.[6]
Career
editFrom 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
editHarris 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
editBurch, Sarah; Harris, Sara (2014-07-03). Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. ISBN 9781442614451.[16][17]
References
edit- ↑ "Award-winning teaching prof appointed AD Academic at UBC Science". science.ubc.ca. September 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ↑ "Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences".
- ↑ "UBC Science prof wins national award for climate literacy MOOC | UBC Science - Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia". science.ubc.ca. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ "Sara Harris (2015) | 3M National Teaching and Learning Fellows". 3mcouncil.stlhe.ca. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ↑ "Meet this year's 3M Teaching Fellows Check out the 10 teachers who were named to the top of their class". 16 February 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. UBC". www.eoas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ "Sara E. Harris". 28 July 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ↑ Thatra, Nivretta (17 January 2017). "On the Origin of Scientists: Sara Harris teaches climate change differently". The Ubyssey. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ↑ Crawford, Tiffany (4 May 2016). "B.C. fire season flares up early forcing province to turn down Alberta request for help". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ↑ "3M Teaching Awards: Building a world-wide classroom". Maclean's. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ↑ "Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching". NPR.org. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ↑ "Sara E. Harris". 28 July 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- ↑ Henry, Alan. "Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Fall Semester 2013". Lifehacker. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ↑ "Sara E. Harris". edX.
- ↑ "Sara Harris | Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences". www.eoas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ↑ Smardon, Richard (1 September 2015). "Sarah L Burch and Sara E. Harris (eds): Understanding climate change: science policy and practice". Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 5 (3): 485–486. Bibcode:2015JEnSS...5..485S. doi:10.1007/s13412-015-0286-0. ISSN 2190-6483. S2CID 127752621.
- ↑ Doughty, Howard A. (2017). "Book Review: Understanding Climate Change: Science Policy, and Practice" (PDF). The Innovation Journal. 22: 7.
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