Contact Information
E-mail: Semken at asu dot edu
Mailing address:
Arizona State University
School of Earth and Space Exploration
PO Box 871404 (Postal service) or
Bateman PSF Room 686 (Courier services)
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1404 USA
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Associate Professor of Geoscience Education and Geological Sciences, and Associate Director for Undergraduate Education, in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
Deputy Director for Education and Outreach, EarthScope National Office at Arizona State University.
Research
I'm an ethnogeologist and geoscience education researcher. My research is focused on ways that geoscience inquiry and the teaching of Earth science interact with indigenous and local knowledge, sense of place, and the affective domain. This work is directed toward enhancing Earth science literacy and diversity in the geoscience community, and is mostly based in the geologically, ecologically, and culturally diverse places of the American Southwest.
Teaching
I regularly teach courses in Southwestern Geology and Earth System Science, Field Geology, Historical Geology, and Earth and Space Science Education. Before joining ASU, I taught geological sciences on the Navajo Nation for 15 years.
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