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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.

Select Prior Year: 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008-2001

PDP 2019 Teams and Teaching Venues
2019-02		Teaching venue: Workshops for Engineer & Science Transfers, Toxicology Strand (WEST) Approximate Teaching Dates: mid to late September 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:
2019-03		Teaching venue: Workshops for Engineer & Science Transfers, Physics Strand (WEST) Approximate Teaching Dates: mid to late September 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:
2019-04		Teaching venue: Workshops for Engineer & Science Transfers, Climate Science Strand (WEST) Approximate Teaching Dates: mid to late September 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:
2019-06		Teaching venue: UCLA Physics/Astronomy PREP Approximate 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:
2019-07		Teaching venue: Pre-Optometry Professional Society Workshop Approximate Teaching Date: Summer 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:
2019-09		Teaching venue: Astro 101 Lab Approximate Teaching Date: Fall 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:
2019-10		Teaching venue: ENVS 104A Approximate Teaching Date: mid to late June 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:
2019-11		Teaching venue: Akamai PREP1 Teaching Dates: Arrive June 15th/16th, teach June 18th-19th, depart June 21st 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:
2019-12		Teaching venue: Akamai PREP2 Teaching Dates: Arrive June 15th/16th, teach June 18th-19th, depart June 21st 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:
2019-13		Teaching venue: MSU REU PREP (end of May 2019) or CMSE Course (Fall 2019) Approximate Teaching Date: MSU REU PREP (end of May 2019) or CMSE Course (Fall 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:
2019-14		Teaching venue: AstroCOM NYC PREP Approximate Teaching Date: late May/early June 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:
2019-15		Teaching venue: Columbia Summer Research PREP Approximate Teaching Date: late May/early June 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:
2019-16		Teaching venue: Carnegie Summer Program Approximate Teaching Date: late June 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:
2019-17		Teaching venue: Boulder MASP/PEAC Approximate Teaching Date: between July 6th and August 9th, 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:
2019-18		Teaching venue: ACCESS Summer Research Institute Workshop Approximate Teaching Date: June 17th & 18th, 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:
2019-19		Teaching venue: MARC Summer Research Institute Workshop Approximate Teaching Date: mid June 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:
2018-20		Teaching venue: Banneker Institute Approximate Teaching Date: late June or July 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:
2019-21		Teaching venue: AstroTech Workshop Approximate Teaching Date: June 24-28 or July 16-19, 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:
2019-22		Teaching venue: TAURUS PREP Approximate Teaching Date: June/July 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:
2019-23		Teaching venue: AST 376 "Practical Introduction to Research" Approximate Teaching Date: Fall 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: