Contact Professor Eliza Woo

Email: via the Canvas Inbox! (But you can use eliza.woo@mail.ccsf.edu if the Canvas Inbox is not working!)
Office Hours: In-person on Tuesdays, from 11-12pm in S-341; or virtually, online, on Wednesdays from 1:30-2:30pm via Zoom, or by appointment (send me an email with available times and I can set up a Zoom for us!)
If you leave me a message, I will respond for sure within 24 hours on a M-F exclusive of holidays. If you haven't received an answer during that time, reach out again because your email or mine might have gone to SPAM.
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Eliza Woo, instructor

Hi everyone! I am Eliza Woo, one of your instructors this semester for our Environmental Science Lab (ENVS 31L) course. I'm so excited to meet you all!

I have been a biology instructor at CCSF since 2015, where I have been teaching Human Biology and General Biology. It has been awesome teaching here, since I started out at CCSF myself before transferring to UC Berkeley and pursuing a graduate degree at SUNY Stony Brook and a teaching postdoc at Columbia University in New York.

I have a PhD in Ecology and Evolution and I love the outdoors! I’ve been lucky enough to do conservation work in the Hawaii, conduct plant research in the rainforests of Puerto Rico, lead surveys in the pine barrens of Long Island, NY, and even inventory song bird populations in the SF Bay area salt marshes. I am now even trying to get students to come out with me into the field here in San Francisco, and, in this class, I hope to bring some of this natural world to YOU through our course!

At Columbia University, I was so stoked to learn how to teach various science topics from quantum mechanics to geochemistry to astrophysics to evolution to neurobiology. What did I learn from all this? That I love teaching, that everything in science is really interconnected, and that the more I learned, the more I realized there is SO much more to learn.

However, a BIG lesson I have learned from all these experiences and from the many mentors/students I have worked with over the years is the power of the "Growth Mindset". I know that with a curious mind and confidence in your ability to learn you will be successful.

Check out thisGrowth Mindset video!

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