Professional Development Teaching Teams

ISEE mobilizes many teaching teams each year through the Professional Development Program (PDP), so that ISEE simultaneously has two major impacts:

1) the PDP participants – primarily graduate students and postdocs – who have a transformative professional development experience that they will draw on throughout their careers.

2) the students that they teach – primarily undergraduates – who gain an immersive inquiry experience in an inclusive environment.

Beginning with the most recent prior cohort of PDP teams, the team pages summarize how many people are impacted by ISEE each year.


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PDP 2019 Cohort Poster

PDP 2019 Teams and Teaching Venues

 

Total Students taught in the inquiry lab activity: 436

2019-02

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Teaching venue: Workshops for Engineer & Science Transfers, Toxicology Strand (WEST)

Teaching Dates:  September 16-18, 2019

Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

Design Institute Attending:  Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead:  Nicholas Santiago (UCSC)

Members: Matthew Glasenapp (USCS), Shanna Howard (UCSC)

Disciplinary area: neuroscience, environmental toxicology, chemistry or biology with interest in neurosci/env tox

 

Sponsor: UCSC Student Fees Advisory Committee & ISEE/UCSC, EEB Department

22 undergraduate students

2019-03

Teaching venue: Workshops for Engineer & Science Transfers, Physics Strand (WEST)

Teaching Dates:  September 16-18, 2019

Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

Design Institute Attending:  Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead:  Carolyn Gee (UCSC)

Members: Joseph Connell (UCSC), David Laubner (UCSC)

Disciplinary area: physics, astronomy

 

Sponsor: UCSC Student Fees Advisory Committee & ISEE/UCSC

25 undergraduate students

2019-04 

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Teaching venue: Workshops for Engineer & Science Transfers, Climate Science Strand (WEST)

Teaching Dates:  September 16-18, 2019

Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

Design Institute Attending:  Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead:  Mercedes Pozo Buil (UCSC)

Members: Robin Trayler (UC Merced), Gemma Carroll (UCSC/NOAA), Hope Ianiri (UCSC)

Disciplinary area:  oceanography, environmental sciences, geology, climate sciences

 

Sponsor: UCSC Student Fees Advisory Committee & ISEE/UCSC, UC Merced

28 undergraduate students

2019-06

planet

Teaching venue:  UCLA Physics/Astronomy PREP

Teaching Date: September 25, 2019

Location: University of California, Los Angeles

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead: Matthew Hosek (UCLA)

Members: Navin Sridhar (Columbia), Dino Hsu (UCSD)

Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117

20 undergraduate students

2019-07

Teaching venue:  Pre-Optometry Professional Society Workshop

Teaching Date: August 10, 2019

Location: University of Houston

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Leads: Santoshi Ramachandran (U Houston), 

Hanieh Mirhajianmoghadam (U Houston)

Members: Erin Tomiyama (U Houston), Sujata Rijal (U Houston)

Disciplinary area: optics, optometry

 

Sponsor: ISEE

 

16  undergraduate students

2019-09

 

planet

Teaching venue:  Astro 101 Lab

Teaching Date: September 24-25, 2019

Location: University of South Carolina

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead: Thomas Richardson (U South Caroliina)

Members: Justin Roberts-Pierel (U South Carolina), Georgina Anderson (U South Carolina)

Disciplinary area: physics, astronomy

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117 and University of South Carolina; South Carolina Space Grant Consortium (NNX15AL49H)

23  undergraduate students

2019-10

wind energy

Teaching venue:  ENVS 104A

Teaching Date: July 1 & 3, 2019

Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead: Josephine Lesage (USCS)

Members: Joshua Smith (UCSC), Molly Karnes (UC Merced)

Disciplinary area: ecology, environmental studies, biology

 

Sponsor: UCSC Student Fees Advisory Committee & ISEE/UCSC, UCSC EEB Dept, NSF OPP 1842049

5  undergraduate students

2019-11

optics

Teaching venue:  Akamai PREP1

Teaching Dates: June 15-21, 2019

Location: Hilo, HI

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead: Devin Chu (UCLA), 

Members: Ryan Dorrill (U Hawaii), Stacey Sueoka (NSO/DKIST)

Disciplinary area:  Physics/Optics, astronomy, engineering

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117 and NSF DKIST

42  undergraduate students

2019-12

Teaching venue: Akamai PREP2

Teaching Dates: June 15-21, 2019

Location: Hilo, HI

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead:  Maissa Salama (U Hawaii)

Members: Ryan Dungee (U Hawaii), Zack Briesemeister (UCSC)

Disciplinary area:  astronomy, optics, instrumentation

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1712014, NSF AST#1743117, ISEE/UCSC

42  undergraduate students

2019-13

Teaching venue:  MSU REU PREP (end of May 2019) or CMSE Course (Fall 2019)

Teaching Date: May 29 & June 7, 2019

Location: Michigan State University

Design Institute Attending: Boulder, CO

Team Lead: Philipp Grete (Michigan State)

Members: Forrest Glines (Michigan State), Rachel Frisbie (Michigan State)

Disciplinary area: sustainable software development

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117

34  undergraduate students

2019-14

Teaching venue:  AstroCOM NYC PREP

Teaching Date: June 3-4, 2019

Location: Flatiron Institute, NYC

Design Institute Attending: Boulder, CO

Team Lead: Kate Storey-Fisher (NYU)

Members: Paul McNulty (NYU), Michael Hammer (U Arizona)

Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics, computational data analysis, statistics

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117

16  undergraduate students

2019-15

Teaching venue:  Columbia Summer Research PREP

Teaching Date: May 28, 2019

Location: Columbia University

Design Institute Attending: Boulder, CO

Team Lead: Lauren Anderson (Flatiron Institute)

Members: Nick Young (Michigan State), Rahul Jain (Michigan State)

Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics, computational data analysis, statistics

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117 & Flatiron Institute

21  undergraduate students

2019-16

optics

Teaching venue: Carnegie Summer Program

Teaching Date: June 27, 2019

Location: Carnegie Observatories

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead: Alexander Ji (Carnegie Observatories)

Members: Syed Uddin (Carnegie Observatories), Alicia Lanz (Carnegie Observatories)

Disciplinary area: astronomy

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117 & Carnegie Observatories

16  undergraduate students

2019-17

planet

Teaching venue:  Boulder MASP/PEAC

Teaching Date: July 12, 2019

Location: University of Colorado, Boulder

Design Institute Attending: Boulder, CO

Team Lead: Evan Anders (CU Boulder)

Members: Tristan Weber (CU Boulder), Jessica Roberts (CU Boulder), Jennie Paine (CU Boulder)

Disciplinary area: physics, fluid dynamics, astronomy, astrophysics, atmospheric science

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117

42  undergraduate students

2019-18

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Teaching venue: ACCESS Summer Research Institute Workshop

Teaching Date: June 17-18, 2019

Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Leads: Gabriella Amberchan (UCSC), Jocelyn Macho (UCSC)

Members: A'Lester Allen (UCSC), Darrin Schultz (UCSC), 

Disciplinary area: chemistry, biochemistry

 

Sponsor: UCSC Student Fees Advisory Committee & ISEE/UCSC, NSF GRFP #1339067

17  undergraduate students

2019-19

meiosis

Teaching venue:  MARC Summer Research Institute Workshop

Teaching Date: June 18-19, 2019

Location: University of California, Santa Cruz

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead: Diana Hooker-Romero (UCSC)

Members: Theresa-Anne Tatom-Naecker (UCSC), Erin Satterthwaite (NOAA)

Disciplinary area: biology, microbiology, molecular biology

 

Sponsor: UCSC Student Fees Advisory Committee & ISEE/UCSC, GAANN

10  undergraduate students

2019-20

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Teaching venue: Banneker Institute

Teaching Date: June 10- 12 2019

Location: Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard & Smithsonian

Design Institute Attending: Boulder, CO

Team Lead: Stephanie Douglas (Center for Astrophysics)

Members: Hao-Yi (Heidi) Wu (Ohio State), Ian Weaver (Harvard)

Disciplinary area: astronomy

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1701468, NSF AST#1743117 & Ohio State University

7  undergraduate students

2019-21

cosmic rays

Teaching venue:  AstroTech Workshop

Teaching Date: July 16-18, 2019

Location: University of California, Berkeley

Design Institute Attending: Santa Cruz, CA

Team Lead: Emily Martin (UCSC)

Members: Deno Stelter (UCSC), Fatima Abdurrahman (UC Berkeley)

Disciplinary area: astronomy, electrical/optical/mechanical engineering

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117, NSF AST#1764218 (Jessica Lu grant), and 

NSF AST#1801978 

12  undergraduate students

2019-22

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Teaching venue:  TAURUS PREP

Teaching Date: July 9, 2019

Location: University of Texas, Austin

Design Institute Attending: Boulder, CO

Team Lead: Sinclaire Manning (UT Austin)

Members: Justin Spilker (UT Austin), Jaclyn Champagne (UT Austin)

Disciplinary area: astronomy

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117

24  undergraduate students

2019-23

cosmic rays

Teaching venue: AST 376 "Practical Introduction to Research"

Teaching Date: September 17-24, 2019

Location: University of Texas, Austin

Design Institute Attending: Boulder, CO

Team Lead: Raquel Martinez (UT Austin)

Members: Aaron Rizzuto (UT Austin), Fabíola Campos (UT Austin)

Disciplinary area: astronomy, physics

 

Sponsor: NSF AST#1743117 & Heising-Simons Foundation postdoc fellowship

 

14  undergraduate students