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Dalhousie University, Earth and Environmental Science
Susan Gass
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BiographyDr. Sue Gass is a University Teaching Fellow in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Dalhousie University. Her research works to decipher the complexities of human interactions within ecosystems and in finding the most effective ways engage students in these issues. She teaches a range of Environmental Science courses where she takes a holistic teaching approach to helping students understand today’s environmental challenges. She is dedicated to providing students with a classroom accesible and available to everyone. She has been teaching undergraduate science for more than a decade and teaches all levels of undergraduate students in both large and small classes including field courses. She employs a range of teaching methods and engages her students with the use of story telling and case studies, field based experiences, and more recently has been incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing into her teaching. She won the Dalhousie Faculty of Science Award of Excellence for teaching in 2020, and was a co-lead on the team that won the Dalhousie Academic Innovation Award in 2022. Before joining Dalhousie, she worked in the environmental NGO and local government sectors on biodiversity conservation planning, and as a post doctoral researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. She has a BSc in Biology and Environmental Science from McGill University (1998), an MES from Dalhousie University (2002) and PhD in Marine Environmental Science from the Open University/UHI Millennium Institute (UK) (2006).