My philosophy to teaching and mentorship is to inspire more of the strengths of our ancestral nature - when the frontier was everywhere - with fewer of our weaknesses.  To this end, I strive to train students and staff to be more confident, capable, far-seeing, and prudent.  I practice and facilitate virtue, limit vices, and adopt indifference during perturbation. These are the tools necessary for an abundant and meaningful life, to enhance our understanding, and to carry us forward as individuals, communities, and organizations. 

Academic Appointments

​Jan. 2019 - Present          Special Graduate Faculty, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON           
 
Supervisory of MSc. Students in the School of the Environment investigating Cannabis Horticulture                                                                                                                           
Fall 2016                            Course-Instructor, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON                                                              

Developed and delivered "FOR1412: Forests and Global Processes"  (graduate course), lectures and labs                                                                                                                                                           
2014 - 2017                       Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
                                           
Helped facilitate lectures, tutorials, field-studies, seminars, and graded in various courses: "ENV200, Assessing Global Change: Science and the Environment", "FOR3002,Applied Forest Ecology",  "FOR201, Conservation of Tropical & Subtropical Forests", "FOR200, Conservation of Canada's Forests", "FOR3005, Stresses in the Forest Environment"
 
2013 - 2017                       Invited lecturer, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON                                                 
                             
FOR3005, Stresses in the Forest Environment, "Soil pollutants and remediation." FOR3002, Applied Forest Ecology , "Applied forest ecology statistics, graphing, and reporting." FOR3002, Applied Forest Ecology, "Abiotic resource modifiers & ecological land classification."  FOR200, Conservation of Canada’s Forests. "Soil amendments to conserve Canada’s forests." FOR200, Conservation of Canada’s Forests. "Current topics in forest conservation."                                                           
2016- Present                 Co-supervisor, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Undergraduate thesis students field projects: Farhana Bintay Hye, Rupon Kumar Nath, Akib Hasan Moon,Shamim Reza Saimun, Syed Tuhin.
 
2013 - 2018                    Co-supervisor, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Undergraduate thesis students glasshouse experiments: Amanda Wheeler, Katerina Eyre, William Merritt. Engineering capstone students, database: David Siqi Cao, John David Sant, Garvin Ng, Lawrence Sham.