David Thesenga has been teaching physics, chemistry, and the earth sciences for 16 years to both middle- and high-school students in Pasadena, New York, Chicago, and Longmont, Colorado. From watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens to climbing the Cascades, growing up in Oregon fueled his interest in the world around him and a desire to understand how his landscape was formed. With an original interest in glaciology, David earned his BS in Geology/Geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and shifted to the mining industry in Cripple Creek, Colorado. After leaving mining, he earned his Masters of Science in Teaching from Boston College and never looked back. He has been a curriculum developer for the 7-10 Project of the California PreCollege Science Initiative (CAPSI) at the California Institute of Technology, a faculty associate for math and science teacher preparation at Claremont Graduate University, and is currently the editor of The Earth Scientist, the journal of the National Earth Science Teachers Association. He was most recently named an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator in 2013/14 and worked for the National Science Foundation in the Directorate of Geosciences focusing on 3D printing of topographical concepts and assisting in the reimagining of the GLOBE program's teacher professional development.
Longmont, CO
United States