Dr. Natasha Sekhon

Dr. Natasha Sekhon

Postdoctoral Fellow

Teaching

Field Assistant Instructor

Field Assistant Instructor, UT Austin, Environmental Science Institute, 2018

Duties including organizing field trips at a local and state level for 30 students, ordering gear for each field trip, updating field seminar assignments with co-field teaching assistant and Professors, driving vans and suburbans with students, leading coastal ecology field trips on R/V Katy based at the Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas. Class aimed at junior and senior environmental science majors.

Guest Instructor

Guest Instructor, UT Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment, 2018

Wrote a lesson plan for instructors at institutes of higher education to teach pertinent climate change topics using the example of the Maya Lowlands. Lesson plan is published online and available to the public. The results were published in Journal of Geography in Higher Education. The lesson plan was tested over two semesters where I was the guest instructor.

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant, UT Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, 2016

Taught two - three sections (15 - 20 students per section) of major and non-major geology undergraduate labs per week. Duties included grading assignments, leading lab discussions, and updating teaching slides.