Sara Harris

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Sara E Harris
TitleProfessor of teaching
Awards3M National Teaching Fellow, 2015
Academic background
Alma materOregon State University
ThesisThe Atlantic, the Amazon, and the Andes : neogene climate and tectonics viewed from Ceara Rise, western tropical Atlantic (1998)
Academic work
DisciplineScience education, climate science, paleoclimate
InstitutionsFaculty 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
Websitehttps://www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/faculty/S.Harris.html

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]

Education[edit]

Sara Harris obtained her PhD in geological oceanography from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University in 1998.[6]

Career[edit]

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]

Teaching[edit]

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]

Bibliography[edit]

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Award-winning teaching prof appointed AD Academic at UBC Science". science.ubc.ca. September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  2. ^ "Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences".
  3. ^ "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 2016-09-21.
  4. ^ "Sara Harris (2015) | 3M National Teaching and Learning Fellows". 3mcouncil.stlhe.ca. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  5. ^ "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}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. UBC". www.eoas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  7. ^ "Sara E. Harris". 2015-07-28. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  8. ^ Thatra, Nivretta (2017-01-17). "On the Origin of Scientists: Sara Harris teaches climate change differently". The Ubyssey. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "3M Teaching Awards: Building a world-wide classroom". Maclean's. 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  11. ^ "Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  12. ^ "Sara E. Harris". 2015-07-28. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  13. ^ Henry, Alan. "Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Fall Semester 2013". Lifehacker. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  14. ^ "Sara E. Harris". edX.
  15. ^ "Sara Harris | Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences". www.eoas.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  16. ^ 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. S2CID 127752621.
  17. ^ Doughty, Howard A. (2017). "Book Review: Understanding Climate Change: Science Policy, and Practice" (PDF). The Innovation Journal. 22: 7.


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