I'm a National Board Certified Earth Science Teacher. I hold a Masters in Science in Geology from University of Oregon and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Lewis and Clark College. I have taught for over 23 years and instruct Honors Geology, Biology, Marine Biology and Botany at Oregon City High School.Before launching a career in teaching, I studied landslide hazards and remediation for the US Forest Service, and my graduate research focused on invertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, and regional tectonics of the Oregon Coast Range. I served as a Master Teacher for the NSF-funded Teachers on the Leading Edge (TOTLE), an Earth science teacher professional development program highlighting Pacific Northwest regional plate tectonics. In this role I mentored other K-12 geoscience teachers and also helped develop classroom kits that bring experimental setups into TOTLE participant's classrooms. These kits are used throughout Pacific Northwest classrooms. They include manipulatives middle and high school teachers can use to study regional geologic hazards and earthquake engineering. Additionally, I've engineered innovative middle and high school curriculum using real-time EarthScope GPS data to study geologic hazards and tectonics of the Cascadia region which was presented at the Geological Society of America and American Geophysical Union Meetings.I also coordinates my Honors Geology curriculum with Clackamas Community College and consult on Earth Science curriculum development and teacher professional development projects by Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies, Oregon Public Broadcasting and HHMI BioInteractive.