Sara Harris
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 |
Biography
Harris obtained her PhD in Oceanography from 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 MOOC entitled Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations,[13] and later taught Climate Change: The Science on the edX platform.[14]
Bibliography
Burch, Sarah; Harris, Sara (2014-07-03). Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. ISBN 9781442614451.[15][16]
References
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- "UBC Science prof wins national award for climate literacy MOOC | UBC Science - Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia". science.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
- "Sara Harris (2015) | 3M National Teaching and Learning Fellows". 3mcouncil.stlhe.ca. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
- "Meet this year's 3M Teaching Fellows Check out the 10 teachers who were named to the top of their class". Retrieved 21 September 2016. Cite journal requires
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(help) - "Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. UBC". www.eoas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
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- Thatra, Nivretta (2017-01-17). "On the Origin of Scientists: Sara Harris teaches climate change differently". The Ubyssey. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
- Crawford, Tiffany (2016-05-04). "B.C. fire season flares up early forcing province to turn down Alberta request for help". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
- "3M Teaching Awards: Building a world-wide classroom". Maclean's. 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
- "Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
- "Sara E. Harris". 2015-07-28. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
- Henry, Alan. "Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Fall Semester 2013". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
- "Sara E. Harris". edX.
- Smardon, Richard (2015-09-01). "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. doi:10.1007/s13412-015-0286-0. ISSN 2190-6483.
- Doughty, Howard A. (2017). "Book Review: Understanding Climate Change: Science Policy, and Practice" (PDF). The Innovation Journal. 22: 7.