Teaching and mentorship

University of California, Santa Barbara

Currently working with four master's students on a groundwater aquifer system project.

Pre-2024 worked and mentored two graduate and undergraduate students on groundwater aquifer mapping across the United States.

Washington State University 

As a preceptor for MATH 171 Calculus I, MATH 108 Trigonometry, and MATH 202 Calculus for Business and Economics for (Fall 2019 and Spring 2020)

• Grading undergraduate students homework

Addis Ababa University

As a lecturer and assistant lecturer participated in teaching, lab assisting, fieldwork organizing, advising and mentoring students for the following courses: 

• Geol 508 Principles of Hydrogeology, 

• Geol 508 Groundwater Exploration and Development, 

• Geol 523 Groundwater Resources Management, 

• Geol 501 Economic Geology, 

• Geol 213 Practical Paleontology, 

• Geol 214 Practical Crystallography,  

• Geol 405 Environmental Geology, 

• Geol 420 Mapping Igneous Terrain, 

• Geol 503 Mapping Metamorphic Terrain, and 

• Geol 510 Senior Project for graduating classes.

• Field work co-organizer for water quality sampling techniques (measuring physiochemical characteristics of water, major ions, and water isotopes sampling) for groundwater, surface water and rain falls for graduate students (Spring 2014)

• Field work co-organizer for demonstration of drilling water wells and pumping test for undergraduate student in the vicinity of Akaki wellfield (Spring 2014)

• Field organizer and coordinator for mapping igneous terrain field excursion for undergraduate students in the vicinity of Nazreth - Dera - Asela - Metahara in Main Ethiopian Rift System (Spring, 2012-2014)

• Field organizer and coordinator for mapping sedimentary terrain field excursion for undergraduate students in the vicinity of Muger (Fall, 2014)

• Assisting fieldwork for mapping  metamorphic and plutonic rocks field excursion for undergraduate students in the vicinity of Wukro (Fall, 2010)