Teaching & Outreach

Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Policy

This GEO366/WWS451 course, for which I was the Teaching Assistant for Professor Michael Oppenheimer, explores the consequences of human-induced climate change and their implications for a range of potential policy responses. We focus on risks to individuals, societies, and ecosystems. As one example, we explore the risks to coastal cities from sea level rise and coastal storms as well as measures being planned and implemented to enable adaption. As another, we consider the use of migration as a strategy to adapt to climate variation and change. We explore recent advances in modeling impacts and adaptation, particularly statistical approaches. We also explore local, national, and international initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The course also examines the efficacy of scientific information in the public arena. We scrutinize how policy makers have actually utilized scientific information at the domestic and international levels in responding to the changing climate, and how scientists participate in the policy process.

Princeton day school - energy & climate scholars

As part of my membership in the Princeton University Energy and Climate Scholars fellowship (PECS), I coordinate an all-year-round partnership with Princeton Day School, a local high school. We run monthly events on various climate-related topics selected in cooperation with the high school students, e.g. climate impacts in NJ, environmental justice, energy transition in developing countries. I also organize and run several World Climate Simulations, involving 20 to 100 high school students.

Trenton central high school - energy & climate scholars

As part of the PECS fellowship, I am also an active participant in recently started outreach activities at Trenton Central High School (NJ). We partner with ArcPrep, a program introducing Trenton students to architecture. This is a group picture taken with an infrared camera, as part of a tutorial on thermal radiations.