Teaching/Mentorship

Teaching

Our teaching philosophy is based on the idea that effective teaching is informed by cutting-edge research and valuing students’ interests. We often bring my research into the classroom to make the class exciting and update students with the latest scientific developments. That way, students can understand science is not just a classroom theory but has something to do with solving real-world problems, while we learn from the students’ reactions to my research. Therefore, exposing students to a laboratory, both indoor and field scale, is one of our primary teaching styles.

At Kansas State University (Dr. Panthi as an instructor)

Engineering Hydraulics CE552 (Spring/25)
Water Resources Engineering CE550 (Fall’24)

At University of Rhode Island (Dr. Panthi as a Teaching Assistant)

Watershed Hydrology (NRS461)

Hydrogeology (Geo583)

Environmental Hydrogeology (Geo584) – graduate course
Global Climate Change (GEO305G)

Landform: Origin and Evolution (GEO210)

Soil Geomorphology and Mapping (NRS471)

Understanding the Earth (Geo103)

Natural Resource Conservation (NRS100)

Research mentorship

We hold mentoring students in high regard as an integral facet of the educational process. Over time, we’ve mentored several undergraduate students, particularly those with an interest in groundwater hydrology.

Team Panthi posing for a picture after a successful presentation of the Capstone project on streamwater quality, land use in lower-order streams, and variably saturated conditions.

Public demonstration of our saltwater intrusion sand-tank model.

Classroom demonstration

Augmented Reality Sandbox: Simulating the landscape, flooding and drought while teaching undergraduate students at URI.

Field teaching

We enjoy teaching students in the field sites. Over the summer of 2021 and 2022, we taught several undergraduate students from the University of Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico in field measurements such as saltwater intrusion geophysics, well installation and monitoring, stream-gauging, etc.

Field demonstration of Electrical Resistivity Imaging in southern coast of Rhode Island.
Teaching Stream discharge measurement to NASA Science & Engg Fellows from Puerto Rico. PC: S. Pradhanang

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