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TEACHING

My brand new course Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication was first taught as a UC-wide online course [UCSC SCIC110] in Spring 2023 and then brought to learners worldwide on the Coursera platform in Fall 2023.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-animation 

This course was created in collaboration with UCSC Online Education, UCSC Science Communication Program,
CSUMB Science Illustration Program, and Burroughs Wellcome Fund. 

Courses Taught

2023
Instructor & Course Designer
Coursera MOOC
Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication
2023
Instructor & Course Designer
UC Online & UCSC Science Communication Program
SCIC110: Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication
2022
Instructor & Course Designer
CSU Monterey Bay Science Illustration Program
SCIP395-33_SU22: Data-Driven Animation for Science Communication
2022
Instructor & Course Designer
Pixar University
Visualizing Life in the Deep: data-driven animation using animal-borne sensors at sea
2021
Instructor & Course Designer
UC Santa Cruz
Art 199/299: Data Visualization Collective
2019
Teaching Assistant
UC Santa Cruz
BIOE 129L: Marine Mammals (Instructor: Dr. Dan Costa)
2016
Teaching Assistant & Collector
UC Berkeley
IB103LF: Invertebrate Zoology (Instructor: Dr. Jenna Judge)
2014-16
Teaching Assistant & Course Designer
UC Berkeley
Oceans C82 (Instructor Dr. Jim Bishop)

Science Communication Videos

How much is the ocean heating up?
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How much is the ocean heating up?

Extreme weather events and sea level rise are increasing, intensified by a warming ocean. Understanding heat in the ocean can help better predict extreme weather and long-term climate shifts. A network of robotic instruments called Argo is helping scientists track warming beneath the surface and it’s showing us the ocean's heat content is increasing steeply. This video shares just how much the ocean is warming, and how the Argo program needs more support to continue to give society the full picture of ocean warming. #Argo #OceanWarming #OceanHeat #MarineHeatWaves #ScrippsOceanography #UCSanDiego #COP28 Animation by Jessica Kendall-Bar. https://jessiekb.com Science Advisors: Sarah Purkey & Megan Scanderbeg - Climate, Atmospheric Sciences, and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Argo data are collected and made freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it. Argo Website: https://argo.ucsd.edu Publication: https://doi.org/10.17882/42182 Other data sources (in order of appearance): Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) Sea Surface Temperature Analysis. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=5101 Monthly Global Sea Surface Temperature Timeseries: OISST V2.1 - ClimateReanalyzer.org, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_monthly/ Internal ocean temperature difference: Roemmich-GiIson Argo Climatology (2009). Anomaly calculated from the over Jan 2004 - Dec 2018 average. Publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2009.03.004 Dataset: https://sio-argo.ucsd.edu/pub/Global_Marine_Argo_Atlas/RG_ArgoClim_Temp.nc, Ocean heat content: Lyman and Johnson (2014) updated for Johnson et al. (BAMS State of the Climate 2023). https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-ocean-heat-content Code to generate Argo data visualizations is available via Github at: https://github.com/jmkendallbar/Argo-Animation
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