From 1998 to 2005, she served as the chief scientist at the
Sea Education Association in
Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In this role, she would take students out to sea for six weeks to teach methodologies for collecting oceanographic data as well as navigation and sailing. She was a senior instructor at the University of British Columbia prior to becoming professor of teaching there. In that role, she studies evidence-based science education and how people learn climate science. In 2013, she co-taught a
massive open online course called
Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations, and later taught
Climate Change: The Science on the
edX platform.
Teaching Harris has taught a number of courses at the University of British Columbia, including Introduction to
Environmental Science, Research Project in Environmental Science, The Fluid Earth: Atmosphere and Ocean, and Global Climate Change. == Bibliography ==