Teaching Assistant Resume Example University Of Southern California

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Summary

Skills

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint), Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, R studio
Technical - SEM, PLM, XRD, ArcGIS
Adobe Illustrator
Photoshop
Content
Data mining
Detail oriented
Email
Fluent in English
Geology
Interpretation
Access
Excel
Microsoft Office

Office
Outlook
PowerPoint
Power Point
Word
PLM
Processes
Research
Russian

Experience

Teaching Assistant
Los Angeles, CAUniversity of Southern California/

August - present.
Environmental Issues in Society (introductory course for non majors): developed and taught discussion sections, graded exams, assignments and papers.
January - May, 2016.
Earth History (introductory course for non majors): taught lab sections, graded exams and assignments.
August - December, 2015.
Planet Earth (introductory course for non majors): taught lab sections, co-led one full day field trip, graded exams and assignments.

Adjunct Lecturer and Teaching Assistant
Brooklyn, NYBrooklyn College/Aug 2012 to May 2015

Stratigraphy (required course for major): co-taught lectures and labs, instructed and supervised students in the field, graded labs and assignments.
Death Valley Field Course (Graduate course for K-12 Earth Science teachers): assisted students in the recognition of rock formations and in the interpretation of environment, helped students prepare a geological map of Emigrant Pass (Nevada), instructed and supervised students in the field.
Death Valley Field Course (required course for major): assisted students in the recognition of rock formations and in the interpretation of environment, helped students prepare a geological map of Emigrant Pass (Nevada), instructed and supervised students in the field, graded assignments.
Introduction to Earth Science (required course for major): co-taught lectures and labs, instructed and supervised students in the field, graded labs and assignments.
Core Geology lab (introductory course for non majors): taught lab sections, led one full day field trip, graded exams and assignments.
Online version Core Geology (introductory course for non majors): assisted about 100 students/semester with content comprehension maintaining contact through both email and office hours, graded assignments and exams.

Research Assistant
New York, NYAmerican Museum of Natural History, National Science Foundation/May 2011 to Aug 2011

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU).
Conducted research on ammonite evolution and climate change immediately preceding K/Pg boundary.
Collected, identified, prepared, catalogued, monitored, and analyzed fossil collection.
Utilized Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) in order to analyze ammonite shells and impact spherules.
Prepared shell samples for oxygen and carbon isotopic analyses.
Presented research at the museum colloquium (Power Point Presentation) and the Geological Society of America annual conference.
Participated in multiple field trips to different states (MS, SD, ND, WY, MT, and NJ).

Education and Training

Ph.DUniversity of Southern California2015Los Angeles, CA

Master of Science: Earth and Environmental SciencesBrooklyn College/CUNY2015Brooklyn, NYGPA: 3.6

Bachelor of Science: Earth and Environmental SciencesTomsk State University2012Tomsk, Russian FederationGPA: 3.8

Bachelor of Economics: State Municipal Management2006GPA: 3.7

Activities and Honors

Paleontological Society

Geological Society of America

Accomplishments

Analytical Paleobiology 2019 at University of California, Riverside (4 weeks).
Taphonomic and Ecological Processes in Tropical Environments 2017 at Gerace Research Centre in San Salvador, the Bahamas sponsored by Paleontological Society (5 weeks).
Marine Invertebrate Zoology 2016 at University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories in San Juan Island, USA (5 weeks).
International Course on Carbonate Microfacies ("Flugel-Course") 2016 at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany (5 days).
Stratigraphic Paleobiology 2014 course at Indiana University Geologic Field Station in Montana, USA sponsored by Paleontological Society (2 weeks).
2018-2019, principal scientific advisor on animation grant of $17,500 from Sloan Foundation (https://cinema.usc.edu/sloan/).
The Sloan grant was awarded in July of 2019.
Larina participated in the outreach project "Why I became?" designed by Megan Simon to inspire young girls to pursue STEM studies.
2014, participated in a seminar on fossils at the Brooklyn School Inquiry with talented and gifted kids.
There, Larina introduced the field of paleontology, field research experience and career opportunities in geology to the elementary students.
2014, mentored two undergraduate students (Evan Alexieff and Jone Naujokaityte) during graduate studies at Brooklyn College.

Publications

2020 Larina, E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Thibodeau, A. M., Berelson, W. M., West, A. J., Yager, J. A. High-resolution record of the lead-up to the end-Triassic mass extinction. About to be submitted to Nature Geoscience. 2019 Larina, E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Zonneveld, J. P., Celestian, A. J., Bailey, J. V. Uppermost Triassic phosphorites from Williston Lake, Canada: link to episodic euxinia in northeastern Panthalassa. Scientific Reports. 9(1), pp. 1-9. 2019 Rovelli, C. R., Garb, M. P., Landman, N. H., Larina, E., Phillips, G., Myers, E. C. Influence of impact site proximity to the K/Pg recovery of ecosystem structure and diversity: new insight from the Gulf Coastal and Atlantic Coastal Plains. PALAOIS. In Revisions. 2019 Brown, G.M. and Larina, E. Environmental controls on shallow subtidal molluscan death assemblages on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 527, pp.14-24. 2018 Witts, J., Landman, N. H., Boas, C., Larina, E., Rovelli, R., Edwards, L., Sherrell, R., Cochran, J. K. First record of a fossiliferous spherule rich bed at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary in Mississippi, USA: implications for the K-Pg mass extinction event in the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. Cretaceous Research 91, pp. 147-167. 2016 Larina, E., Garb, M. P., Landman, N. H., Dastas, N., Thibault, N., Edwards, L., Phillips, G., Rovelli, R., Myers, C., Naujokaityte, J. Upper Maastrichtian Ammonite Biostratigraphy of the Gulf Coastal Plain (Mississippi Embayment, southern USA). Cretaceous Research 60, pp. 128-151.

2015 Sessa, J. A., Larina, E., Knoll, K., Garb, M. P., Cochran, K., Huber, B. T., MacLeod, K. G., Landman, N. H. Ammonite habitat revealed via isotopic composition and comparisons with co-occurring benthic and planktonic organisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(51), pp.15562-15567.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

2019 Larina, E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Berelson, W. M., Zonneveld, J. P., Celestian, A. J., Bailey, J. V., West, J. A., and Yager, J. A. The record of environmental change in Northeastern Panthalassa directly preceding the end-Triassic mass extinction event. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 247-6.

2019 Larina, E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Berelson, W. M., Zonneveld, J. P., Celestian, A. J., Bailey, J. V., West, J. A., and Yager, J. A. 2019. Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological trends leading up to the end-Triassic mass extinction event: story of two sites from northeastern Panthalassa. EGU Galileo Conferences. Abstract No. GC5-Mass-73.

2019 Witts, J., Landman, N. H., Garb, M. P., Irizarry, K. M., Thibault, N., Razmjooei, M., Larina, E., Edwards, L., Yancey, T. E., Rovelli, R., Myers, C. E. 2019. Catastrophe at the end of the Cretaceous? Shallow marine biodiversity, paleoecology, and the complexities of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event. EGU Galileo Conferences. Abstract No. GC5-Mass-73.

2019 Larina, E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Berelson, W. M., Zonneveld, J. P., Celestian, A. J., Bailey, J. V., West, J. A., and Yager, J. A. 2019. Uppermost phosphorite deposits from Williston Lake, Canada: an indicator of perturbed conditions preceding the end-Triassic mass extinction. 11th North American Paleontological Convention.

2019 Larina, E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Zonneveld, J. P., Celestian, A. J., Bailey, J. V.. 2019. Uppermost phosphorite deposits from Williston Lake, Canada as an indicator of perturbed conditions preceding the end-Triassic mass extinction. 16th Annual Southern California Geobiology Symposium. 2018 Larina E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Berelson, W. M., Yager, J. A. and West, J. A. Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological trends leading up to the end-Triassic mass extinction event at Ferguson Hill, Nevada. 5th International Paleontological Congress.

2017 Larina E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Berelson, W. M., Yager, J. A. and West, J. A. New record of biotic response and of an unusual carbonate system for at the end-Triassic mass extinction at Ferguson Hill, Nevada. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 305-11

2017 Brown, G. M., Larina, E. Beyond water depth: environmental controls on shallow subtidal molluscan death assemblage compositions on San Salvador Island, the Bahamas. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 190-4 2017 Witts, J. D., Landman, N. H., Garb, M. P., Thibault, N., Jones, D. S., Larina, E., and Yancey, T. E. New records of an abundant ammonite assemblage from the latest Cretaceous Corsicana Formation, Brazos River, Texas. Implications for the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event in the Gulf of Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 197-5 2015 Rovelli, R., Garb, M., Landman, Meyers, C. E., Dastas, N. R., and Larina, E. Influence of impact site proximity to K/Pg recovery of ecosystem structure and diversity: new insight from the Gulf Coastal Plain. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 67-7 2014 Larina, E., Garb, M., Landman, Meyers, C. E., Rovelli, R., and Meyers, C. E., Reevaluation of the upper Maastrichtian ammonite biostratigraphy based on Discoscaphites occurrences along the Gulf Coastal Plain. 9th International Symposium Cephalopods - Present and Past. Zurich, Switzerland. 2014 Sessa, J. A., Knoll, K., Larina, E., Garb, M. P., Cochran, K., Huber, B. T., MacLeod, K. G., Landman, N. H., Ammonite Habitat Revealed via Isotopic Composition and Comparisons with Co-occurring Benthic and Planktonic Organisms. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper 22-12. 2013 Remy Rovelli, Matthew P. Garb, Landman, N. H, Larina, E and Corinne E. Meyers., New insights into the K/Pg boundary recovery community in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. . Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 29-13. 2013 Larina, E, Neil H. Landman, Matthew P. Garb, Corinne E. Meyers and Remy Rovelli., Upper Maastrichtian Ammonite Biostratigraphy of the Northeastern Gulf Coastal Plain. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 380-8. POSTERS 2018 Larina, E., Bottjer, D. J., Corsetti, F. A., Celestian, A. J., Zonneveld, J. P., Bailey, J. V. Genesis of Upper Triassic phosphatic ooid beds from Williston Lake, Canada: microbial or abiotic mineralization? Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 170-2. 2016 Larina E., Bottjer, D. J., Yager, J. A., Corsetti, F. A., and Berelson, W. M. High-resolution petrographic and carbon isotope analyses of the end-Triassic mass extinction horizon, lowermost Muller Canyon Member (Gabbs Formation), Ferguson Hill, Nevada. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 76-2. 2015 Naujokaityte, J., Garb, M., Landman, N., Larina, E., Rovelli, R., Meyers, C. E., Danilova, A., Bayon, R., Brophy, S., and Phillips, G. E. Significance of fossil concentrations in interpreting paleoenvironmental changes preceding the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event along the Gulf Coastal Plain. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 222-13. 2015 Danilova, A., Garb, M., Landman, N., Hopkins, M., Larina, E., Rovelli, R., and Naujokaityte, J. Morphometric shell analysis of one of the last ammonite species before the K/Pg mass extinction event. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 225-13. 2015 Brophy, S., Garb, M., Naujokaityte, J., Rovelli, R., Bayon, R., Larina, E., and Landman, N. Comparative analysis of sedimentological characteristics of channel deposits at K/Pg boundary within the Gulf Coastal Plain in west-central Alabama. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 229-6. 2014 Larina, E., Garb, M., Landman, N., Dastas, N., Meyers, C. E., Alexieff, E., Rovelli, R., Naujokaityte, J., and Boas, C., Utility of Discoscaphites in interpreting the stratigraphic architecture and faunal changes preceeding the K/Pg mass extinction event across the Gulf Coastal Plain. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 313-6. 2014 Rovelli, R., Garb, M., Larina, E., Sloan, J. C., Landman, N., Naujokaityte, J., and Phillips, G. E., Evidence of Chicxulub Impact Recorded For the First Time in Arkansas. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper 320-6. 2014 Jarochowska, E., Keller, A.L., Kimmig, J., Larina, E., LaVine, R.J., Loughney, K.M., Orzechowski, E.A., Pierrehumbert, N.D., Rojas, A., Sclafani, J.A., Singer, A., Yager, J.A., Christie, M., McMullen, S.K., Holland, S.M. and Patzkowsky, M.E.: Sequence stratigraphic control over biofacies distribution and ecological gradients in the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation, Montana. 58th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association University of Leeds, UK 16-19 2014 Naujokaityte, J., Garb, M., Meyers, C. E., Larina, E., Rovelli, R., Landman, N, and Boas, C., Application of Fossils Concentrations in Paleoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis of the Prairie Bluff Formation in South-Central Alabama. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper 218-21. 2014 Dastas, N., R., Chamberlain, J., Garb, M. P., Larina, E., and Rovelli, R., Dinoflagellate biostratigraphy of the upper Cretaceous Prairie Bluff Chalk and the Danian Clayton Formation in Alabama and Mississippi, USA. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 313-09.

2014 Levitsky, T., Garb, M. P., Landman, N. H., Larina, E., Meyers, C. E., and Naujokaityte, J., Methane cold seeps as Late Cretaceous refugia. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 47-12. 2014 Loughney, K. M., Jarochowska, E., Keller, A., Kimmig, J., Larina, E., Singer, A., Christie, M., Holland, S., and Patzkowsky, M., Sequence stratigraphic control over biofacies distribution and ecological gradients in the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation, Montana. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper 313-7. 2014 Knoll, K., Sessa, J. A., Landman, N. H., Macleod, K. G., Garb, M. P., Larina, E., and Cochran, K., The influence of shell microstructure on the preservation and isotopic composition of late Cretaceous bivalve and gastropod shells. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 132-4. 2013 Boas, C., Garb, M. P., Rovelli, R., Larina, E., Meyers, C. E., Naujokaityte, J., Landman, N. H., and Phillips, G., New K/Pg localities along the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain: more evidence of impact and tsunamis. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Paper No. 41-18. 2013 Boas, C., Garb, M. P., Landman, N. H., Rovelli, R., Larina, E., The significance of a fossiliferous spherule bed at the K/Pg boundary in Northern Mississippi. Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstr. with Program, Southeastern Meeting. Paper No. 28-05.

2012 Larina, E., Landman,N. H., Cochran, K., Garb, M. P., Thibault, N., Insights into climatic and faunal changes at the end of the Maastrichtian at the type locality of the Owl Creek Formation, Mississippi. Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstr. with Program, Annu. Meeting. Paper No. 158-12.

2012 Kopun, J., Castro, C., Garb, M., Larina, E., and Remin, Z., Taphonomic analysis of a Late Cretaceous oyster bed at the top of the Mount Laurel Formation in Monmouth County, New Jersey: long term hiatal concentration, storm deposit or tsunami? Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstr. with Program, Annu. Meeting. Paper No. 102-30. 2012 Buynevich, I. V.,Eisemann, E., Terry, D. Jr, Hayes, K. M., Grandstaff, D. E., Garb, M. P., Schein, J., Lacovara, K. J., Landman, N. H., and Larina, E., Ichnology of K/T sections of central New Jersey: burrow geometry and magnetic properties. Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstr. with Program, Northeastern. Meeting. Paper No. 37-01. 2011 Larina, E., Landman,N. H., Garb, M. P., Myers, C., Rovelli, R., and Klofak, S., Climatic and faunal changes at the end of the Maastrichtian: ammonite biostratigraphy and isotopic analyses at the type locality of the Owl Creek Formation, Mississippi.Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstr. with Program, Annu. Meeting. Paper No. 99-07. 2011 Garb, M. P., Landman,N. H., Larina, E., Rovelli, R., Myers, C., and Phillips, G. E., First recorded occurrence of impact spherules at the K/Pg boundary in Mississippi. Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstr. with program, Annu. Meeting. Paper No. 99-08.

Languages

Fluent in English and Russian

Additional Information

HONORS AND SCHOLASHIPS , Research Enhancement Fellowship 2018 (USC - $37,000) Student Research Grant 2018 (SEPM - $1200) Student Grant 2018 (GSA - $1900) Department Student Grant 2018 (Earth Sciences, USC - $1000) Lerner Gray Scholarship 2018 (AMNH - $1,000) Grant-in-Aid 2018 (AAPG - $2500) AMNH Collection Study Grant 2017 (AMNH - $1000) NSF GRFP Fellow 2013 (NSF - $132,000) Iris J. Giannota and Yolanda G. Jacobs Scholarship 2013 (Brooklyn College - $750) Lerner Gray Scholarship 2013 (AMNH - $1,000) Richard K. Bambach Award 2013 (Paleontological Society - $800) James R. Welch Scholarship 2013 (AAPS - $1,500) Plafker Family Scholarship for 2011-2012 academic year for outstanding achievements (Brooklyn College -$500) Brooklyn College Scholarship for 2010-2011 academic year for academic excellence (Brooklyn College - $500) Dean's Honor List for the Spring semester 2009, 2010 and 2013 and for the Fall semester 2009. LEADERSHIP Fall 2018- Spring 2019, Seminar Organizer I organized and ran weekly the Paleo-Environmental Departmental Seminar Series at the University of Southern California. Fall 2011- Fall 2012, Treasurer of the Brooklyn College Geological Society. During the year of my service, our executive board increased an annual budget of the society from $250 and $8,000. Our Society organized multiple geology field trips, sponsored trips to national conferences, organized campus-wide environmental awareness campaign, and collaborated with non-profit organization. In 2012, we received the Club of the Year Award which last time was received in 1986.

Field and Lab Courses

• Analytical Paleobiology 2019 at University of California, Riverside (4 weeks).
• Taphonomic and Ecological Processes in Tropical Environments 2017 at Gerace Research Centre in San Salvador, the Bahamas sponsored by Paleontological Society (5 weeks).
• Marine Invertebrate Zoology 2016 at University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories in San Juan Island, USA (5 weeks).
• International Course on Carbonate Microfacies ("Flugel-Course") 2016 at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen, Germany (5 days).
• Stratigraphic Paleobiology 2014 course at Indiana University Geologic Field Station in Montana, USA sponsored by Paleontological Society (2 weeks).

Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

University of Southern California
Brooklyn College
American Museum of Natural History, National Science Foundation

School Attended

University of Southern California
Brooklyn College/CUNY
Tomsk State University

Job Titles Held:

Teaching Assistant
Adjunct Lecturer and Teaching Assistant
Research Assistant

Degrees

Ph.D
Master of Science : Earth and Environmental Sciences
Bachelor of Science : Earth and Environmental Sciences
Bachelor of Economics : State Municipal Management

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