Sara Harris

Dr.
Sara Harris
PhD
Title Professor of Teaching
Awards 3M National Teaching Fellow, 2015
Academic background
Education PhD, Geological Oceanography, 1998. College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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 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 won the 3M National Teaching Award for her MOOC on climate change.[3][4][5]

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

  1. ↑ "Award-winning teaching prof appointed AD Academic at UBC Science". science.ubc.ca. 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. 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.
  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. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ Doughty, Howard A. (2017). "Book Review: Understanding Climate Change: Science Policy, and Practice" (PDF). The Innovation Journal. 22: 7.


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