I am an adjunct instructor of introductory organismal biology at Temple, as well as a full-time high school science teacher at The City School in Philadelphia. I constantly strive to bring excellence to my course designs by integrating my skills in ecological and molecular research. As a high school teacher of Biology, Anatomy, and Chemistry, I strive to prepare my students for higher education and to bridge this gap by teaching them applicable skills in research science.

My research at Temple focuses on utilizing large-scale climate data to forecast the effects of climate change on invasive species. I focus specifically on the Spotted Lanternfly (/Lycorma delicatula/). I create species distribution models at varying spatial scales to explore the differences in climate which affect global invaders such as SLF. I have also created a modeling pipeline for assessing the risk of invasives under climate change, which I am distributing as an R package called "scari" (Shifting Climate Assessments for Risk of Invasions). You can read more about my research and this package here:
 
https://ieco-lab.github.io/scari/
https://github.com/owenssam1