VITA |
scottv@ocean.washington.edu www.econscience.org/scott/vita
6537 16th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA |
| Jan '00 - Jan '03 | Ph.D, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA. |
| Sep '95 - Oct '97 | M.S., University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA. |
| Sep '88 - Jun '92 | B.S., Stanford University, Earth Systems, Stanford, CA. Helped design and was first student to be graduated from an interdisciplinary science major aimed at solving environmental problems. |
| Spring '01 | Instructor, University of Washington (UW) School of Oceanography. Created a 1-unit seminar on Instructional Technology in Oceanography and taught it to graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members. |
| Sep '00 - Jun '01 | Lead Teaching Assistant, UW School of Oceanography. First student to serve in this new position. Helped organize and facilitate the 1st and 2nd annual graduate teaching assistant orientation within the School. Developed successful proposal to institute an annual excellence in teaching award for graduate students serving as TAs or lecturers. |
| Summer '96, '00 | At-sea Instructor for REVEL, a UW School of Oceanography outreach program involving high school teachers in oceanographic research at the Juan de Fuca ridge, Northeast Pacific. Managed watches and mentored individual teachers and students at sea. |
| Jan - Mar '00 | Teaching Assistant, Introductory Oceanography lab, UW School of Oceanography. Conducted 3 labs/week of 30 students each. Provided motivational lecture and orientation. Designed and graded weekly homework. Attended all lectures. |
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Sep - Dec '99 Mar - Jun '99 | Laboratory lecturer, Introductory Oceanography, San Francisco State University. Re-designed 20-student lab course and field trips associated with large lecture class taught by Dr. Karen Grove. Created and graded exercises and reports, in both computer and geoscience laboratories. Devised demonstrations. Administered web site and on-line assessement system. Orchestrated 5 field trips/quarter, each 5 hours long, and one full-day cruise aboard the R/V Point Sur in Monterrey Bay. |
| Jul - Aug '99 | 2nd and 3rd Assistant Scientist, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA. 2nd on WHOI bonding cruise C163A with Chief Scientist Gary Jaroslow. 3rd on C164 with Chief Scientist Lisa Graziano. Led watches, oversaw deployments, facilitated student research, delivered an afternoon short lecture (C164), and maintained cruise web pages. |
| '99 - present | Instructor and board member, Ocean Inquiry Project. Helped initiate and continue to volunteer for a Seattle-based non-profit that provides high school and community college students an opportunity to contribute to oceanographic research projects by collecting useful data during day-long cruises in Puget Sound. Developed curricula, taught science stations, acted as SCUBA diver on about half of 30 cruises completed to date. |
| '96 - present | Outreach coodinator for the Exploraquarium, a UW School of Oceanography educational web site. Designed and administered site, developed content, and fielded average of one general oceanography question per week. |
2003 Veirs, S. Submarine volcanic heat flux and hydrography: observations and models of the Main Endeavour vent field in the Northeast Pacific. University of Washington doctoral thesis. (Successfully defended May 8, 2003.)
1999 Veirs, Scott, McDuff, R.E, Lilley, M.D., and Delaney, J.R. Locating hydrothermal vents by detecting and modeling buoyant, advected plumes. Journal of Geophysical Research. Submitted Nov 1998; revised May 1999; accepted Aug 1999.
1992 Mix, A.C., Rugh, W., Pisias, N.G., and Veirs, S. Color reflectance spectroscopy: A tool for rapid characterization of deep-sea sediments. Ocean Drilling Program (Leg 138) initial report paper.
Dec 2001: AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Measurements and models of heat flux magnitude and variance from the Main Endeavour hydrothermal vent field.
Aug 2001: NSF/RIDGE Integrated Study Site planning meeting, Seattle, WA.
Dec 2000: AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Spatial and temporal variability of hydrography in the vicinity of the Main Endeavour field
Oct 2000: GSA session on Research on Teaching and Learning in Geoscience.
A preliminary assessment of factors that motivate introductory oceanography students to learn.
Jul 2000: RIDGE Theoretical Institute, Big Sky, MT.
Dec 1997: AGU fall meeting, San Francisco, CA.
CTDT characterization of ridge crest hydrothermal activity.
| Fall '01 | Outstanding student paper award at the American Geophysical Union meeting. San Francisco, CA. |
| Fall '95+ | One of about 20 recipients of the NASA Global Change Fellowship, fully funded and renewed for maximum 3 years. |
| Spring '96 | One of 2 oceanography graduate students selected and subsidized to participate in UW field trip to Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. |
Aug - Dec '94
Genetics Photo Researcher, Videodiscovery, Inc., Seattle, WA. Acquired multimedia resources for an interactive high school genetics curriculum based on CDROM/laserdisc.
Jun - Sep '94
Satellite Oceanography Intern, (Dr. Chet Koblinsky), Graduate Student Summer Program in Earth System Sciences, NASA, Greenbelt, MD. Assessed the use of TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite radar altimetry in monitoring global submarine volcanic accitivity. Gained familiarity with the Interactive Data Language, Internet resources, and Fortran.
May '94
Seismology Field Assistant, (Dr. Marcia McNutt, MIT), Lake Mead, NV. Installed and monitored REF/TEK field seismometers and differential Global Positioning Systems during 2-week Basin And Range Geophysical Experiment. Assisted with air guns and hydrophone management aboard the barge.
Jul - Aug '93
Wilderness Emergency Medicine Trainee, SOLO, Conway, NH. Certified to provide pre-hospital care, especially with minimal equipment in remote areas.
Jan - Apr '93
Environmental Scientist, Syed Muhammad, Hooi dan Binnie consultants, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Investigated geology, water quality, and land use in the field. Researched and composed geological, meteorological, and land use chapters of environmental impact assessments. Interviewed representatives of relevant municipal and state government agencies.
Dec '92 - Jan '93
Radiosonde Meteorologist, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Western Equatorial Pacific. Launched weather balloons and operated radiosonde station during intensive observation period of the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment. Facilitated cross-cultural understanding and cooperation between NASA Doppler radar scientists and Chinese oceanographers, meteorologists, and crew.
Mar - Jun '91
Overseas Student and Forest Growth Model Intern (Dr. Carlos Prado), Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile. Studied development issues at Stanford overseas campus. Surveyed a spectrum of
modelling techniques.
Jun - Sep '89
Paleo-Oceanography Research Assistant (Dr. Alan Mix), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Pioneered high-resolution scanning reflectance spectroscope for on-board analysis of deep-sea sediment core
mineralogy.