Lisa E. Collins, Phd. University of Southern California

Lisa E. Collins __ Curriculum Vitae Updated October 14, 2015 Lisa E. Collins, PhD. University of Southern California Assistant Professor, Teaching Tel: (213) 740-0124 Director of Undergraduate Studies Cell: (213) 422-3802 Environmental Studies Program SOS B15 Fax: (213) 740-8566 Los Angeles, CA 90089 [email protected]

EDUCATION 2009 Ph.D., Biogeochemical Oceanography, University of Southern California 2003 B.S. with Honors, Geology, University of Maryland, College Park

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2014- pres. Assistant Professor (Teaching), USC Environmental Studies Program 2013- pres. Director of Undergraduate Studies, USC Environmental Studies Program 2010- 2014 Lecturer, USC Environmental Studies

COURSES TAUGHT: ENST 445: Earth Climate: Past, Present, and Future (100% created, 3 lecture hrs/ wk) - Focus on the scientific measurements (proxies) made to determine past climate and how past climate has impacted civilizations - Thoroughly review the relevant scientific literature on paleoclimatology and what models predict for the future ENST 485: The Role of the Environment in the Collapse of Human Societies (100% created, 24/7 for 3 wks) - Supervise and teach a team of undergraduates for a 13 day field excursion in Southern Belize focusing on the Maya - Use field experiences to critically analyze how the Maya responded to environmental and social challenges and how that affected their resilience to climate change ENST 320a: Water and Soil Sustainability (25% created, 3 lecture hrs/ wk; field version created 80% lab and field components) - Team taught course focused on all aspect related to soil and water in the environment; especially relating agriculture and waste water to water and food security - Team- taught a summer section on Catalina Island with an enhanced laboratory component ENST 320b: Air and Energy Sustainability (25% new material created, 3 lecture hrs/ wk) -Course focused on quantitative reasoning and a basic understanding of the physics, chemistry, and environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels -Covers basic physics behind the greenhouse effect GESM 130: Climate Change: The Science, History, and Our Future (50% new material created, team-taught with History Dept., 3 lecture hrs/wk) -Created new GE course in partnership with Prof of History -Course focus on climate science, history of how we got to the current political state with respect to climate policy, and solutions for the future

ENST 100: Introduction to Environmental Studies (50% created, 3 lecture hrs/ wk) - Responsible for designing & implementing all lectures, quizzes, and exams - Develop new case study content relevant to Los Angeles/ California - Integrate technology into the classroom with student presentations and directed learning ENST 495: Senior Seminar on Catalina Island (100% created, 2 lecture hrs/wk, 2 full weekend field trips) - Lead students on weekend- long field trips to Catalina Island - Developed new field trip to Santa Cruz Island to examine Northern Channel Island natural history ENST 370: Marine and Coastal Policy 25% new material created; 3 lecture hrs/ day & 3 lab hrs/ day for 3.5 wks ) - Focus on ocean policy from international to local level - Thoroughly review the development and implementation of UNCLOS, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and fisheries economics ENST 490: Environmental Studies Directed Research - Advise students on intensive independent research projects - Develop structured schedules to assist students with completion of successful projects ENST 150: Environmental Issues in Society (Faculty TA) - Develop weekly discussion topics relevant to and supplementing classroom lectures - Evaluate student learning through writing assignments, quizzes, and exams GEOL 107L: Oceanography (Teaching Assistant) - Teach introductory oceanography concepts through creative lab exercises to undergraduate students GEOL 108L: Crises of Planet (Teaching Assistant) - Introductory earth science laboratories - Assist in redesigning lab exercises to align with lecture material GEOL 474L: Ecosystem Function and Earth Systems (Teaching Assistant) - Design and teach field and lab- based exercises to complement lectures - Mentor students with independent research projects focusing on environmental geology BISC 300L: Microbiology (Teaching Assistant) - Team- teach labs - Assist students with isolating and identifying a mixed culture of bacteria BISC 490x: Directed Research (Teaching Assistant) - Monitor eight undergraduates with independent study projects on Catalina Island - Assist with their research projects- including helping with field research Agouron International Geobiology Course, Teaching Assistant - Organize and order all lab equipment and supplies - Assist with running several all day multi-disciplinary symposia - Assist with geochemistry measurements including TCO2, Fe, Mn, bSiO2 - Mentor students in microbiology labs (DNA extractions, PCR, running gels)

2 Lisa E. Collins __ Curriculum Vitae Updated October 14, 2015 GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE MENTORING 2015-pres. Co-advisor for Kaytee Canfield WiSE summer project: Stable Isotopes and Diet for Endemic Foxes and Non-Native Ungulates on Catalina Island 2015-pres. Committee member for USC Cinema/ Digital Arts M.F.A candidate Lindsey Townley 2015 Directed Research Advisor for Tyler Schiffman, Judith Fong, Richelle Tanner 2014- pres. ENST 590 for Progressive Degree candidate Kaytee Canfield 2013-2014 Committee member M.A. candidate Kacey Deamer in Specialized Journalism (Annenberg) 2014 Summer Intern Advisor for Judith Fong 2014 Directed Research Advisor for Tyler Schiffman, Sydney MacEwen, Makena Crowe 2013 Summer Intern Advisor for Casey Frost (now completing GIS certificate program in OR), Richelle Tanner (headed to UC Berekely for PhD, Biology), Kali Staniec (ICF International Intern), Corey Bustamante (now working in finance) 2012 Summer Intern Advisor for Dawnielle Tellez (Starting MS in Fall 2015 at UW), Judith Fong, Justin Bogda (starting law school Fall 2015), Stephen Holle (starting teaching credential program at Antioch University) 2011 Summer Intern Advisor for Dan Kasang (now working for the Forestry Service), Miller Zou (in law school), Alexandra Cheung, Sabrina Lawrence- Gomez 2011 Directed Research Advisor for Mariah Gill (completed MS at Yale) 2010 Directed Research Advisor for Riti Chandiok, Travis Dagdigian, Sam Fisher, Bridget Hardy, Sydney Morical, Sarah Wescott, Michaela McLoughlin

SERVICE Service to University Member of the Dornsife Faculty Council Curriculum Caucus (2015-pres.) Created new interdisciplinary Climate Science and History course for new general education program (2014-2015) Faculty Marshal, USC Commencement, Dornsife College (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) Faculty advisor WomENST Club (2014, 2015) Faculty advisor Environmental Affairs Organization (2014, 2015) Faculty advisor to Greeks Go Green Club (2015) Faculty advisor to the USC Science Policy Group (2015) Faculty advisor Just Food and Gardening Club (2014, 2015) Dornsife College Grade Appeals Panel (2013-2014) Course Continuity in a Crisis Grant Selection Committee (2012) Explore USC Parent Dinners (2012) Orientation lunches with incoming majors (2010-pres.) Fraternity and Sorority Scholarship dinners (2010-pres.) Faculty advisor USC Environmental Studies Club (2010)

Service to the ENST Program: Co-chaired the Undergraduate Program Review under WASC (Spring 2014) Environmental Studies Catalina Semester (2014-pres.) Catalina Island Summer Internship (2011-2013) Faculty Search Committee, Non-Tenure Track (2015) Faculty Search Committee, Non-Tenure Track (2014) Faculty Search Committee, Non-Tenure Track (2013) ENST Space Committee (2012-2013) Faculty Evaluation Committee (2011) Director of Undergraduate Studies (2013, 2014, 2015) Service to the Profession: Southern California Academy of the Sciences, Member- Elect to the Board of Directors (2013-pres.) National Ocean Science Bowl, USC Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies (2011)

GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2015 Center for Scholarly Technology Grant for Data-Driven Research Assignment (Co-PI) 2014 Provost Fund for Undergraduate Research, Awarded to mentee, Kaytee Canfield 2014 Summer Undergraduate Research Funding Awarded to 22 students in PWP courses and doing summer research 2013 Undergraduate Research Associates Program, USC Provosts Office (Co-PI), $6.4k for the ENST Summer Internship on Catalina with a focus on soil carbon and how invasive plants disruptive soil carbon and nitrogen cycling. 2013 Funds for Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching, USC Provosts Office (Co-PI), $4k for ENST Catalina Semester Programming including guest speaker symposia throughout the semester and field excursion around Catalina Island. 2013 Summer Undergraduate Research Funding Awarded to 30 students in PWP courses 2012 Undergraduate Research Associates Program, USC Provosts Office (Co-PI), $4.5k for the ENST Summer Internship on Catalina Island where students did education outreach for Wrigley, worked with the Catalina Island Conservancy, and continued building a sustainable interpretive trail on the Wrigley campus. 2012 Funds for Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching (Co-PI), USC Provosts Office, $4.7k for developing course content between ENST 320a (Water and Soil Sustainability) and ENST 499 (Water Issues in China) where students compared water issues on Catalina to those in developing China. Activities included a native plant scavenger hunt created for Catalina Island and symposia for both courses. 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Funding Awarded to 20 students in PWP courses 2011 Faculty Development Grant, USC Provosts Office, $500 to defray expenses to attend a two week Summer Soil Science Institute short course, held by Colorado State University 2011 Course Continuity in Crisis grant, USC Center for Scholarly Technology, $5k for developing and implementing a lesson plan where students study the

4 Lisa E. Collins __ Curriculum Vitae Updated October 14, 2015 science and community response to natural disasters. Included one class where students met virtually via web, preparing campus in case of an emergency that 2011 Learning environment technology grant, USC Center for Scholarly Technology, Awarded MacBook Pro to teach in class exercise evaluating climate websites 2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Funding Awarded to 19 students in PWP courses and doing summer research 2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Funding Awarded to 4 students in PWP courses 2010 Student Opportunities for Academic Research, awarded to mentees Riti Chandiok and Michaela McLoughlin 2009 Final Summer Fellowship for Dissertation Writing, USC College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences 2008 Travel Grant for ASLO Conference, USC Department of Earth Sciences 2008 Grant for NAGT Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geoscience Workshop 2008 Women in Science and Engineering Merit Fellowship, Runner- Up 2007 Travel Grant for ASLO Conference, Women in Science and Engineering 2007 Outstanding TA award for Geol 107: Oceanography 2006 Travel Grant for ASLO Conference, USC Department of Earth Sciences 2006 Southern California Geobiology Symposium, 2nd place Poster Presentation 2005 Outstanding TA Award for Geol 108: Crisis of a Planet 2004 Outstanding TA Award for Geol 108: Crisis of a Planet

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED 2014 Symposium on California’s Channel Islands at the Southern California Academy of the Sciences annual meeting, co-organizer. Ventura, CA. 2008 Southern California Geobiology Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Co- organizer 2008 Special Seminar with Bo Barker Jorgenson (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the Center for Geomicrobiology) as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's Distinguished Researcher and International Leadership Lecture Series (DRILLS) Program 2005 Southern California Geobiology Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Organizing committee

INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2013 “Global Warming & Climate Change: the Science, the Consensus, and the Lessons Learned” ENST 150 guest lecture 2013 “Climate Change: the Science, the Consensus, the Controversy” ENST 500 guest lecture 2012 “Air Pollution and Climate Change in the Environment” ENST 100 guest lecture 2007 “DAMM SPOT: A microbial hitchhiker’s guide to the twilight zone” Caltech Earth Sciences Geobiology Seminar, Pasadena, CA.

CONFERENCES: 2014 “Utilizing Public Access Data and Open Ocean Source Statistical Programs to Teach Climate Science to Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Students” American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation

2014 “Catalina Island Ecology, Restoration, and Management Internship: Building Partnership Among Agencies with Diverse Interest” Southern California Academy of the Sciences, Ventura, CA. Oral Presentation 2009 “Implications for Carbon Burial in a Changing World: Field & Lab Results of Remineralization Rates of Corg” Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Riverside, CA. Oral Presentation 2008 “The Effects of Oxygen, Temperature, and Microbial Inhibition on Remineralization Rates of Particulate Organic Carbon, San Pedro Basin, CA” Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. Poster Presentation 2008 “The Effects of Oxygen, Temperature, and Microbial Inhibition on Remineralization Rates of Particulate Organic Carbon, San Pedro Basin, CA” American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, Orlando, FL. Poster Presentation 2007 “Microbial Interactions with the Flux of Corg in San Pedro Basin” Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Pasadena, CA. Poster Presentation 2007 “The Flux of Bacteria on Sedimenting Particles in the Southern California Borderlands: A Microbial Hitchhikers Guide” American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, NM. Oral Presentation 2006 “The Flux of Bacteria on Particles Raining Through the Twilight Zone” Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Riverside, CA. Poster Presentation 2006 “Microbial Hitchhikers: The Flux of Bacteria on Particles Raining Through the Oxygen Minimum Zone, San Pedro Basin, CA” American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, Honolulu, HI. Oral Presentation

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS: 2015 (In-prep) Collins, L.; Ginsburg, D.; de la Rosa, C. The Little Trail That Could: Trails as a teaching tool for experiential learning and community partnerships. 2015 (In-prep) Collins, L. and Tanner, R. Evidence of Global Warming in Cities in the Western U.S. Decoupled from Urban Heat Island Effect. 2012 Lentz, R.; McCoy, T.; Collins, L.; Corrigan, C.; Benedix, G.; Taylor, G.; & Harvey, R. Theo’s Flow (Ontario, Canada): A terrestrial analog for the Martian nakhlite meteorites. GSA Special Paper. 483. 2011 Collins, L.; Berelson, W.; Hammond, D.; Knapp, A.; Schwartz, R.; Capone, D. Particle Fluxes in San Pedro Basin, California: A Four-Year Record of Sedimentation and Physical Forcing. Deep-Sea Research Part I. Vol 58, Issue 8, 898-914. 2011 Meister, P.; Reyes, C.; Beaumont, W.; Rincon, M.; Collins, L.; Berelson, W.; Stott, L.; Corsetti, F.; Nealson, K. Calcuim and magnesium- limited dolomite precipitation at Deep Springs Lake, California. Sedimentology, Vol 58, Issue 7.

NEWS MEDIA STORIES: 2014 Drought Forces Los Angeles to Rely on Water Reserves, 1/31/14. Neon Tommy, S. Li, Interviewed by student about the current drought in Los Angeles, whether or not LA residents and utilities are prepared for it, and the underlying climate that is causing the drought along with historical paleoclimate patterns.

6 Lisa E. Collins __ Curriculum Vitae Updated October 14, 2015 2012 Storms and Rising Seas Present New Threats to Unstable SoCal Peninsula, 4/1/12, KQED Climate Watch interview for online story & radio special. Story about the instability of the Palos Verdes peninsula and how humans can exacerbate erosion and mass wasting. 2011 A Trail Blazing Summer, 7/15/11, Dornsife News- front page of the College website, R.Hoops- Story about four environmental studies students who interned on Catalina Island in cooperation between L. Collins & the Catalina Island Conservancy 2011 Ocean Probes Offer Insight Into Climate Change, 8/9/11, Dornsife News- front page of College website, R. Perkins- News media coverage of L. Collins’ Deep Sea Research paper and what clues the research can give us about how the oceans are responding to climate change. Also picked up by Science Daily and KQED Climate Watch (with additional interview) 2011 A Rescue Plan for Carbon-Emitting Ethanol Plants, 9/15/11, Neon Tommy, L. Walsh- Interviewed by student to discuss carbon capture and storage technologies and the role they may (and likely will not) play in future plans to decrease carbon emissions.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: 2011 Summer Soil Science Institute at Colorado State University. Two week, intensive short course to learn soil science and techniques for measuring soil biodiversity and chemistry. Awarded grant to cover tuition costs. 2009 Cruise to the Oregon Borderlands Basin. Two week cruise where I was responsible for deployment and recovery of benthic landers, squeezing pore waters, and analyzing water for nutrients (TCO2, NH4, Fe, Mn, PO4) 2009 Zaca Lake as a Proxy for Southern California Climate, Sediment trap study. Responsible for the quarterly deployment and recovery of sediment trap Analyze samples for mass, biogenic silica, and organic carbon fluxes 2004- Detrital and Marine Material San Pedro Ocean Time Series sediment traps. 2008 Prepare mooring for recovery and deployment every 3-6 months, process samples (up to 42 samples/ deployment) and analyze for total carbon, organic carbon, nitrogen, biogenic silica and prepare samples for stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ15N) 2007- Floating sediment traps, Corg and bSi Flux study. Design and test incubation 2008 experiments to determine remineralization rates of organic carbon and biogenic silica. Measure sediment flux, total mass, POC, PON, CaCO3 and determine POC remineralization by change in TCO2 using coulometry 2008 Barbara Basin sediment coring. Squeeze sediment pore water and run total CO2 on samples using coulometer. 2005 Cruise to California Borderland Basins. Assist with processing of multi-cores and gravity cores and squeeze sediment pore water. Responsible for deployment and recovery of floating sediment traps.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: American Geophysical Union Geological Society of American

National Association of Geoscience Teachers Southern California Academy of the Sciences- Member Elect, Board of Directors The Oceanography Society