Meet Your Instructors

The ADVANCEing FieldSafety Training Program has been developed by members of the ADVANCEing FieldSafety team and serve as your course instructors. Collectively, your instructors have decades of experience conducting fieldwork across the world, from remote polar regions to tropical environments to being on sea-going vessels.

Check out the profiles below to learn more about the ADVANCEing FieldSafety MOOC instructors.

field camps with nomad yurt
Alice Hill in the field

Alice Hill

Module 1 and 3 Instructor , she/her
Scientists collecting field samples in the glacier terrain
Mylène Jacquemart

Mylène Jacquemart

Module 2 Instructor , she/her
Plains landscape
Blair conducting research

Blair Schneider

Module 4 Instructor , she/her
Icefield landscape
Anne Gold headshot in cold field environment

Anne Gold

Module 5 Instructor , she/her
Field tent in ice field
Ryan Cassotto

Ryan Cassotto

Module 5 Instructor , he/him
aerial photo of lower curtis
Mariama field photo

Mariama Dryák-Vallies

Module 6 Instructor , she/her
Open grass field
Erika standing in front of a tree

Erika Marín-Spiotta

Module 7 Instructor , she/her
Icy Water
Alex on Ice

Alexandra Padilla

Module 7 Instructor , she/her