Sara Harris
Sara E Harris is a Canadian scientist, and Professor in the department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, and the Associate Dean Academic in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia. In 2015, she was named a 3M National Teaching Fellow for her MOOC on climate change.Biography
Harris obtained her PhD in Oceanography from Oregon State University in 1998. From 1998 to 2005, she served as the chief scientist at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 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. She was a senior instructor at the University of British Columbia prior to becoming Professor of Teaching there. In that role, she studies evidence-based science education and how people learn climate science. In 2013, she co-taught a MOOC entitled Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations, and later taught Climate Change: The Science on the edX platform.
