I enjoy helping students understand complex concepts in the earth sciences and fostering critical thinking and problem solving skills. Hydrology is a very applied discipline. Understanding hydrological processes and the physics that controls them aids in predicting water availability, water quality, and projecting how human activities and environmental change will alter the location, abundance, and quality of water resources.

The combined stresses from population growth, economic development, and climate change will lead to myriad water resources challenges in the 21st century.  To meet these challenges, it will be necessary to educate the next generation of scientists to work on solving complex water resource issues. As a teaching assistant, I strive to develop interest and expertise in hydrology through effective and engaging curriculum. 
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I have served as a Teaching Assistant for the following courses:

• Introduction To Earth Sciences, UC Berkeley, Spring 2012
• Physical Hydrology, UT Austin, Fall 2016 
• Field Methods in Hydrogeology, UT Austin, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019*
• Physical Hydrogeology, UT Austin, Fall 2018**, Fall 2019 
• Introduction to Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, Spring 2019

* Lead Teaching Assistant 
** Departmental teaching assistant award

I have mentored the following student projects:

• 2017-2018 Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Research project on the effects of dam releases on SW-GW exchanges. The thesis earned a 'top poster' award at the AGU Fall 2017 meeting in New Orleans and is currently  in prep as a manuscript. 
• 2016 Research Exchange Student summer project on sediment characterization on the Lower Colorado River