Teaching

I am committed to helping students grow as individuals and scholars, and to enhancing their capacity to understand, critically evaluate, and address contemporary social and environmental challenges.

I aim to cultivate a learning environment that inspires curiosity-driven engagement and that challenges learners to think critically, to take intellectual risks, and to grow together through respectful dialogue. I prioritize clear learning objectives, evidence-based teaching approaches, and assessment protocols that support meaningful intellectual and personal development. I also eagerly pursue experiential and applied teaching approaches and strive to integrate hands-on exercises, community-engaged projects, and field excursions into my teaching activities. Here, my experience working with communities at the frontlines of climate change enables me to devise engaging learning opportunities that naturally support convergent learning across the natural and social sciences. Furthermore, I am committed to teaching in ways that recognize and lift up students’ diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, identities, and responsibilities, recognizing that such differences provide opportunities to enhance students’ collective understanding of topics of mutual interest. And as a lifelong learner myself, I strive to continually improve my teaching effectiveness, including through participating in pedagogical and facilitation training programs, conversing with more senior instructors, and maintaining an open-minded and reflexive approach to teaching. As a result of my demonstrated teaching proficiency, I have been recognized as an Associate at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology.

In addition to teaching, I am active in supervising and mentorship activities. This includes supervision at the PhD level, and mentoring students in initiating field research in areas such as the Canadian Arctic and the Mount Everest region of Nepal, as well as those participating in the Mentoring and Training in IPCC Processes for Early Career Mountain Researchers from Developing Countries program.

Examples of courses taught are provided below:

  • Invited lecturer - Tufts University, Climate Change: Risk and Adaptation in Food Systems and Beyond (NUTR 0256). Lecture topic: Adaptation to climate change in mountain areas. December 2022.

  • Invited lecturer - University of Saskatchewan/The Resilience Institute, Foundations in Collaborative Research. Lecture topic: Good Practices in Bringing Together Knowledge Systems. November 2022.

  • Course Instructor – University of Zurich, Pluralistic Assessment Approaches (Mentoring and Training in IPCC Processes for Early Career Mountain Researchers from Developing Countries). September 2022.

  • Invited Lecturer - University of Engineering and Technology (Peru), Mountain Ecosystems and Climate Change. Lecture topic: Adaptation to climate change in the Andes and Himalayas. July 2022.

  • Course Instructor - University of Zurich, Systematic Review: The Science and Practice of Formal Literature Synthesis (Mentoring and Training in IPCC Processes for Early Career Mountain Researchers from Developing Countries). September 2019.

  • Invited lecturer - University of British Columbia, Our Changing Cryosphere (GEOB 408). Lecture topic: Glacio-Hydrology and Meltwater Resources. October 2019

  • Teaching Assistant - University of British Columbia, Our Changing Cryosphere (GEOB 408). Fall Term 2019

  • Invited lecturer - University of British Columbia, Socio-Ecological Systems (RES 510). Lecture topic: Approaching socio-ecological change: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Transformation. February 2019

  • Invited lecturer - University of British Columbia, The Grand Challenge of Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and Adaptation. Lecture topic: Adaptation Research at the Frontlines of Climate Change. June 2018

  • Invited lecturer - McGill University, Advanced Topics in Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation (GEOG 540). Lecture topic: Implementing adaptation options. March 2014.

  • Teaching Assistant - McGill University, Local Geographical Excursion (GEOG 290). September 2013.

  • Invited lecturer - McGill University, Geographical Perspectives on World Environmental Problems (GEOG 200). Lecture topic: Human Vulnerability to Climate-Related Hydrological Change in Remote Mountain Regions. November 2012.

  • Invited lecturer - McGill University, Geographical Perspectives on World Environmental Problems (GEOG 200).Lecture topic: Climate Change and Mountain Populations. November 2010.

  • Course Instructor - University of Vermont, Ice climbing and winter backcountry skills. 2007-2008

  • Climbing Guide, Eastern Mountain Sports Climbing School. Burlington, VT, 2007-2008