Donna Whitney : Teaching Activities

undergraduate courses

• Mineralogy
• Petrology (team-taught with Marc Hirschmann)
• Earth and its Environments
• Geology & Civilization (freshman seminar)

graduate courses

• Advanced Petrology (team-taught with Marc Hirschmann)
• seminars (assorted topics in metamorphic geology, tectonics, and beyond)

geoscience education-related publications

books

Chernicoff & Whitney (2006), Geology, 4th edition (Pearson)

Chernicoff & Whitney (2001), Geology, 3rd edition (Houghton-Mifflin)

Crum, Bralower, & Whitney (2000): Earth, Climate & Life (Kendall-Hunt)

articles

Whitney, D.L., Fayon, A.K., Broz, M.E., and Cook, R.F. (2007) The Mohs scale revisited: exploring the relationship of scratch resistance, hardness, and other physical properties of minerals. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55, 54-59.

Fayon, A.K., Duranczyk, I.M., and Whitney, D.L. (2007) Doing time: incorporating fission-track analysis in the undergraduate science curriculum. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55,

Bralower, T.J., Whitney, D.L., Kogan, I., and Campbell, D. (1998) A new interactive class and lab for undergraduate non-geology majors in Earth, climate, and life through time. Journal of Geoscience Education, 46, 24-27.

Dilek, Y., Thomas, R., and Whitney, D.L. (1994) Team-teaching petrology in a tectonic context. Journal of Geoscience Education, 42, 25-31.