{"id":137,"date":"2026-06-04T23:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2026-06-23T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:51:19","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"section has-gray-background \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                \n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Teaching<\/h1>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"section \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching philosophy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I teach the way I do science: by connecting ideas across disciplines and grounding abstract concepts in real-world problems. My students come from earth sciences, biology, environmental science, forestry, and beyond, and I see that diversity as a strength. My goal is to help them think like interdisciplinary scientists\u2014comfortable moving between geochemistry, ecology, data science, and field observation\u2014and to see how a single tool, like an isotope, can illuminate questions from insect migration to ancient extinctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe students learn best by doing. Across my courses and summer schools, I emphasize hands-on work with real data, reproducible and open analytical workflows, and the quantitative and computational skills that modern environmental science demands. Whether in a 300-student introductory course or a two-week field-based summer camp, I aim to make rigorous, data-driven science approachable and to show students that they are capable of original discovery. Mentoring undergraduate researchers in the lab is a central part of this philosophy\u2014many of my trainees have published their work and gone on to graduate study and successful careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above all, I want students to leave my courses curious, quantitatively confident, and aware that the natural world is a deeply interconnected system worth protecting.<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"section \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-516 size-full\" alt=\"Dr. Bataille stands in front of a projector screen, teaching during lecture.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/courses-taught-image.jpg\" style=\"object-position:50% 25%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 25%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/courses-taught-image.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/courses-taught-image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/courses-taught-image-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#737372\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Courses taught<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Purdue University<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FNR 59800 \u2014 Isotopes in Natural Resources (graduate, 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">University of Ottawa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GEO 4301 \/ 5191 \u2014 The Carbon Cycle (2020, 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GEO 4301 \/ 5144 \u2014 Isotope Geochemistry (2019, 2021, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GEO 3742 \u2014 Introduction to Hydrogeology (2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EVS 1501 \u2014 Introduction aux Sciences Environnementales (2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EVS 1101 \u2014 Introduction to Environmental Sciences (300+ students; 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summer schools and short courses<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ESS 2019 Engineering Summer School, INP Toulouse, France \u2014 developed and co-taught a 14-day &#8220;Isotope Biogeochemistry&#8221; summer camp (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GEO 6474, University of Utah \u2014 lecture and lab at the SPATIAL &#8220;Isotopes in Biogeochemistry &amp; Ecology&#8221; Summer Camp (2016\u20132023), and repeated invited instructor on Strontium Isoscapes (2016\u20132024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Isotope Ecology Summer School instructor, INP Toulouse, France (2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}