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 | |
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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 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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