In 2015 I was a founding member of the Chilean Young Physicists’ Tournament<\/a>. <\/strong>We worked with twenty-seven high school students during a month-long school strike. The students worked in teams to build gliders, solder LEDs, and learn basic fluid dynamics, then presented their results in a final tournament. The program is now in its third year and is hosted by the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.<\/p>\n At the University of Colorado, I mentor undergraduate field assistants<\/strong><\/a> through the Undergraduate Research Program and the UNAVCO RESESS program. My first student, Clea Bertholet, recently completed her honors thesis on snow bedforms.<\/p>\n I’ve shared Earth Science with the public through numerous outreach lectures<\/a><\/strong>. In the last two years, I’ve begun writing about science on Quora<\/a><\/strong>. This question-and-answer website gives me an opportunity to hear the questions that most interest the public, and answer them for an audience of three thousand followers.<\/p>\n Finally, I organize introductory backpacking and winter sports <\/strong>trips through the MIT Outing Club and the CU Hiking Club. Winter and wilderness are beautiful – I’d like to get everybody out in them!<\/p>\n\n
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