Sara Harris
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| name = Sara E Harris
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| title = Professor of teaching
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| discipline = Science education, climate science, paleoclimate
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| alma_mater = Oregon State University
| thesis_title = The Atlantic, the Amazon, and the Andes : neogene climate and tectonics viewed from Ceara Rise, western tropical Atlantic
| thesis_url = https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/zg64tp193
| thesis_year = 1998
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| workplaces = 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
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| awards = 3M National Teaching Fellow, 2015
| website = https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/faculty/S.Harris.html
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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{{Cite web|url=https://science.ubc.ca/news/award-winning-teaching-prof-appointed-ad-academic-ubc-science|title=Award-winning teaching prof appointed AD Academic at UBC Science|website=science.ubc.ca|date=September 2017 |access-date=2017-09-18}} in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/faculty/S.Harris.html|title=Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences}} In 2015, she was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow for her MOOC on climate change.{{Cite web|url=https://science.ubc.ca/news/ubc-science-prof-wins-national-award-climate-literacy-mooc|title=UBC Science prof wins national award for climate literacy MOOC {{!}} UBC Science - Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia|website=science.ubc.ca|date=16 February 2015 |access-date=2016-09-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://3mcouncil.stlhe.ca/resources/3m-fellows/in-memorium/?page_id=92&page_id=5374&page_id=5314&page_id=2938|title=Sara Harris (2015) {{!}} 3M National Teaching and Learning Fellows|website=3mcouncil.stlhe.ca|language=en-CA|access-date=2017-12-26}}{{cite journal|title=Meet this year's 3M Teaching Fellows Check out the 10 teachers who were named to the top of their class|url=http://www.macleans.ca/education/university/meet-this-years-3m-teaching-fellows/|access-date=21 September 2016}}
Education
Sara Harris obtained her PhD in geological oceanography from the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University in 1998.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/about/faculty/S.Harris.html|title=Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Dept. UBC|website=www.eoas.ubc.ca|access-date=2016-09-21}}
Career
From 1998 to 2005, she served as the chief scientist at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.{{Cite web|date=2015-07-28|title=Sara E. Harris|url=https://www.edx.org/bio/sara-e-harris|access-date=2016-09-22}} 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.{{Cite news|last=Thatra|first=Nivretta|date=2017-01-17|title=On the Origin of Scientists: Sara Harris teaches climate change differently|work=The Ubyssey|url=https://www.ubyssey.ca/science/otoos-sara-harris/|access-date=2017-03-21}} She was a senior instructor at the University of British Columbia prior to becoming professor of teaching there.{{Cite news|last=Crawford|first=Tiffany|date=2016-05-04|title=B.C. fire season flares up early forcing province to turn down Alberta request for help|language=en-US|work=Vancouver Sun|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-fire-season-flares-up-early-thanks-to-unseasonably-warm-dry-weather-expert|access-date=2017-12-30}} In that role, she studies evidence-based science education{{Cite web|date=2015-02-16|title=3M Teaching Awards: Building a world-wide classroom|url=http://www.macleans.ca/education/university/3m-teaching-awards-building-a-world-wide-classroom/|access-date=2016-09-22|website=Maclean's|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|title=Stanford Physicist Embarks On Mission To Improve Undergraduate Teaching|language=en|work=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/04/13/474120877/stanford-physicist-embarks-on-mission-to-improve-undergraduate-teaching|access-date=2017-09-18}} and how people learn climate science.{{Cite web|date=2015-07-28|title=Sara E. Harris|url=https://www.edx.org/bio/sara-e-harris|access-date=2016-09-21}} In 2013, she co-taught a massive open online course called Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations,{{Cite news|last=Henry|first=Alan|title=Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Fall Semester 2013|language=en-US|work=Lifehacker|url=https://lifehacker.com/plan-your-free-online-education-at-lifehacker-u-fall-s-1201482793|access-date=2017-12-30}} and later taught Climate Change: The Science on the edX platform.{{Cite web|title=Sara E. Harris|url=https://www.edx.org/bio/sara-e-harris|website=edX}}
= 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. {{Cite web|title=Sara Harris {{!}} Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences|url=https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/saraharris|access-date=2021-07-08|website=www.eoas.ubc.ca}}
Bibliography
Burch, Sarah; Harris, Sara (2014-07-03). Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy, and Practice University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division. {{ISBN|9781442614451}}.{{Cite journal|last=Smardon|first=Richard|date=2015-09-01|title=Sarah L Burch and Sara E. Harris (eds): Understanding climate change: science policy and practice|journal=Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences|language=en|volume=5|issue=3|pages=485–486|doi=10.1007/s13412-015-0286-0|s2cid=127752621 |issn=2190-6483}}{{Cite journal|last=Doughty|first=Howard A.|date=2017|title=Book Review: Understanding Climate Change: Science Policy, and Practice|url=https://www.innovation.cc/book-reviews/22_2_7_doughty_bk-review_harris.pdf|journal=The Innovation Journal|volume=22|pages=7}}
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