Sara Harris

Sara E Harris (born 1969) is a Canadian scientist, and professor in the department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, and the associate dean academic^[1] in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia.^[2] In 2015, she was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow for her MOOC on climate change.^[3][4][5]

Sara E Harris
Title	Professor of teaching
Awards	3M National Teaching Fellow, 2015
Academic background
Alma mater	Oregon State University
Thesis	The Atlantic, the Amazon, and the Andes : neogene climate and tectonics viewed from Ceara Rise, western tropical Atlantic (1998)
Academic work
Discipline	Science education, climate science, paleoclimate
Institutions	Faculty of Science Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences The University of British Columbia
Notable works	"Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy and Practice" by Sarah Burch and Sara Harris, 2014. University of Toronto Press. Available here: http://www.utppublishing.com/Understanding-Climate-Change-Science-Policy-and-Practice.html
Website	https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/faculty/S.Harris.html

Education

Sara Harris obtained her PhD in geological oceanography from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University in 1998.^[6]

Career

From 1998 to 2005, she served as the chief scientist at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.^[7] In this role, she would take students out to sea for six weeks to teach methodologies for collecting oceanographic data as well as navigation and sailing.^[8] She was a senior instructor at the University of British Columbia prior to becoming professor of teaching there.^[9] In that role, she studies evidence-based science education^[10][11] and how people learn climate science.^[12] In 2013, she co-taught a massive open online course called Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations,^[13] and later taught Climate Change: The Science on the edX platform.^[14]

Teaching

Harris has taught a number of courses at the University of British Columbia, including Introduction to Environmental Science, Research Project in Environmental Science, The Fluid Earth: Atmosphere and Ocean, and Global Climate Change. ^[15]

Bibliography

Burch, Sarah; Harris, Sara (2014-07-03). Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. ISBN 9781442614451.^[16][17]