SIO 115: Ice in the Climate System
Undergraduate course, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2020
I was the Teaching Assistant for SIO 115: Ice in the Climate System, taught by Prof. Helen Fricker during Winter 2020. The course examined the Earth’s cryosphere, including glaciers, ice sheets, ice caps, sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow, and permafrost. We covered the important role of the cryosphere in the climate systems and its response to climate change.
My main activities included:
- introducing students to basic data analysis and plotting in MATLAB
- introducing students to LaTeX, and providing templates for homework submissions
- holding office hours and answering student questions
- grading homeworks and exams, discussing the questions that students had trouble with in class
- helping teach some of the fundamentals of polar/cryospheric science