TEACHING EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTOR FOR:

Introduction to Natural Resources Management, Northern Marianas College, Saipan, CNMI

Species and Ecosystem Management, Northern Marianas College, Saipan, CNMI

 

 

TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR: 

Kelp Forest Ecology (upper division field course), UC Santa Cruz

Ecology and Conservation in Practice (upper division field course), UC Santa Cruz

Development and Physiology (intro level biology series), UC Santa Cruz

 

RECENT GUEST LECTURES FOR: 

Marine Policy, UC Santa Cruz (undergraduate), Oregon State University (graduate)

Methods in Interdisciplinary Research, Eastern Carolina University

Coral Reef Ecology, Florida International University

 

 

CURRICULA DEVELOPED

Zuercher, R and Aguilera, S. 2015. The Fish, the People, the Tradeoffs: Social-ecological coupling in the wetfish fishery of Monterey Bay, California. Multi-module case study designed for upper division undergraduate and interdisciplinary graduate courses. Product of National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), NSF DBI-1052875.

Zuercher, R, B.A. Higgins, S. Ciandro. 2015. Fisheries management: fish and our communities. Module (lab and worksheet) designed for high school biology students. Product of GK–12 SCWIBLES, NSF DGE-0947923.

Zuercher, R, C. Goetsch, B. Yew, R. Herradora. 2014. Solving crimes with chemistry (including stand-alone Colors in Chemistry module). Module (video, lab and worksheets) designed for high school chemistry students. Concepts: Planning investigations, arguing from evidence. Product of GK–12 SCWIBLES, NSF DGE-0947923.

 

PEDAGOGY TRAINING

Teaching Social-Environmental Synthesis with Case Studies, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Annapolis, MD. July 2015

National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellow, Santa Cruz – Watsonville Inquiry-based Learning in the Environmental Sciences (SCWIBLES). Advisors: Dr. Greg Gilbert, Dr. Ingrid Parker, Dr. Doris Ash. May 2014-June 2015. GK-12 Classroom poster.