Jeff Munroe

This was an interesting and heavily participation-based class. Jeff establishes from the beginning that you can't sit around and watch during class – you have to come up with questions during lecture and expert visits, participate extensively on a weekly online discussion, and contribute fully to the weekly in-class discussion. This was more time-consuming than difficult. Jeff was enthusiastic about all topics covered and led good lectures. There could definitely have been more clarity with grading, though. Participation only got one non-graded check-in mid semester and seemed to possibly be weighted against how other students were doing, so it was very difficult to know how a significant portion of your grade would stack up. The final project had pretty much no guidelines and the grade seemed to involve our performance on a peer review form, which was not mentioned at all before we actually got the grade.

This was an interesting and heavily participation-based class. Jeff establishes from the beginning that you can't sit around and watch during class – you have to come up with questions during lecture and expert visits, participate extensively on a weekly online discussion, and contribute fully to the weekly in-class discussion. This …Read more

Jeff is a really organized teacher has lots of enthusiasm for the material and is very approachable. His grading on Lab Reports can be harsh but never too detrimental. Midterm and Final exams are interesting projects!

I loved Jeff and his class! He is super enthusiastic about earth and climate sciences. The work and grades in his class are mainly focused on the labs. Everyone had to complete one big presentation and a midterm project, along with a final project. The work is super manageable and his grading is also very fair. I recommend!