I teach or have taught the courses below. My teaching was on hiatus from 2013-2018 and is again from 2022 onward due to my service as an administrator. To check on course availability, catalog descriptions, etc., access the UArizona General Catalog listing for Geography.


Earth’s Environments: Introduction to Physical Geography

Geog 170A Earth’s Environments: Introduction to Physical Geography, a general education introduction to earth systems including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere (Fall 2021, 2020, 2019)


Our Changing Climate

Geog 230, an introductory climate science class with active learning and fieldwork elements, satisfies UArizona General Education requirements (Spring 2022, 2021)


Research Design

Geog 500, a graduate core course, which focuses on conceptualizing research projects and on writing and presenting a research proposal (Spring 2020).


Physical Geography Seminar

Geog 696C Physical Geography Seminar, a graduate-level seminar in climate science (changing topics each time)

  • Climate Applications Toolbox (Spring 2012)
  • Climate Drivers of Environmental Change (Spring 2011)
  • Climate & the Ecology of Infectious Disease (Spring 2010)
  • Cutting-Edge Climatology (Spring 2009)
  • Analysis of Disease and Climate (Spring 2008)
  • IPCC AR4 Climate Change in the Southwest (Spring 2007)
  • Climate & Health (Spring 2006)
  • Applied Climate Toolbox (Spring 2005)
  • Drought in the Southwest (Spring 2004)
  • Synoptic Climatology (Spring 2002)
  • Rethinking Introductory Physical Geography (Spring 2001)
  • Southwest Climate Variability (Spring 1998)
  • Synoptic Climatology (Spring 1996)
  • Climate-Environment Interactions (Spring 1993)

The Climate System

Geog 430/530 The Climate System, also cross-listed as AR L 530 / GC 530, a co-convened upper division undergraduate and graduate class with comprehensive coverage of the Earth’s climate system (Fall 2005)


Climates of Arid Lands

Climate module in AR L 565 Physical Aspects of Arid Lands (Team Taught), also cross-listed as GEOG 565, a four-session graduate-level overview of climate system essentials (Fall 2004)