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Sharon at Lake Michigan (Chicago, IL)
Sharon C. Delcambre is an atmospheric scientist and educator with a strong commitment to environmental issues and their impacts on communities. She serve as the Improvement and Impact Evaluator for Climate at ServeMinnesota, located in Minneapolis, MN.
She is always seeking opportunities to form new collaborations, engage in community-based sustainability efforts, and meet new people with similar interests in Minnesota!
Prior to her current position, Sharon taught in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Portland as a Visiting Instructor from 2018-2021. She taught introductory and upper-level Environmental Studies courses including Meteorology, Introduction to Oceanography, Physical Oceanography, Climatology, Environmental Lab, and Natural Hazards of the Pacific Northwest. She quickly and effectively transitioned all classes online in March 2020 due to COVID-19 and helped develop and co-teach the responsive "Imagining our Future: Making Sense of COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and Climate Change" class to 170+ students during Fall 2020.
Prior to University of Portland, Sharon taught climate, environmental science, sustainability, meteorology, geology, and oceanography courses at Portland Community College. She was responsible for visioning and developing the new course "Global Climate Change" at PCC in both face-to-face and online modalities. This course is now being successfully taught on all 4 main PCC campuses.
She has also taught at Clark College (Vancouver, WA), Washington State University (Vancouver, WA), Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR), and Concordia University (Portland, OR).
Sharon earned her PhD at the Center for Climate Research (part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies) and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked with Dr. David Lorenz, Dr. Daniel Vimont, and Dr. Jonathan Martin. Her research focused on the portrayal of the Northern Hemisphere jet streams in Global Climate Models (GCMs). An improved understanding of inter-model variability is beneficial to the modeling community as well as the scientists and policymakers who use model output for their work. (View Publications)
In addition, Sharon completed a Delta Certificate in Research, Teaching, and Learning during her time at UW-Madison. This Certificate included education around the principles of Teaching-As-Research, Learning Through Diversity, and Learning Communities as well as the completion of a Teaching and Learning Portfolio.
In off hours, Sharon is most often found in her garden, walking her extra large dog, or exploring local parks with her family & friends.