Mentoring

My advising philosophy is based on helping others find their own way through advice and two-way discussion, as opposed to the more prescribed experience of content transfer and methodology in teaching. I help my students consider their own objectives and goals as part of the wider project and design a sampling strategy that will best reach these goals.

Recently I have been mentoring MIT undergraduates as part of my postdoc. This has included a senior working on her Senior thesis on stalagmite trace elements. Another student who is a computer scientist major has been working with me on summer undergraduate research project (UROP) on modern rainfall variability in Dominican Republic. He has produced outstanding code that helps paleoclimate scientists investigate modern climate variability in rainfall at a particular site of interest. It was with great pride that I was able to represent his work as a poster at the AGU Fall Meeting last December.