Teaching

Teaching, supervision, and academic administration experience

While working at the University of Helsinki, I was the director of the BSc Programme in Geosciences (March 17, 2020–August 31, 2022) and MSc Programme in Geology and Geophysics (January 1, 2021–August 31, 2022).

My teaching and instruction experience related to duties at the Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki during 2007–2022:

2017–2022    "Geological materials (5 ECTS, GEOK 102)(see also #geologisetmateriaalit on Twitter)"

2021–2022    "Petrology theory (5 ECTS, GEOK 2031)"

2017–2022    "Petrography Excercises (5 ECTS, GEOK 2032)"

2017–2022    "Bedrock Mapping (5 ECTS, GEOK 2042)"

2017–2022    "Academic Skills I (1 ECTS, GEOK 3041)"

2017–2022    "Academic Skills II (1 ECTS, GEOK 3042)"

2017–2022    "Advanced Bedrock Mapping (5 ECTS, GEOM P2041)

2017–2022    "Petrology Project (5 ECTS, GEOM P2022)

2017–2018    “Natural Resources and the Environment” (5 ECTS, GEOK 104)

2017–2018    “Sedimentary Petrology and Basin Analysis” (5 ECTS, GEOM P2024)

2017–2018    “Advanced Igneous Petrology” (5 ECTS, GEOM P2021)

2016, 2018    “Advanced field course in bedrock mapping” (4 ECTS, 54355)

2013–2015    “BSc seminar” (6 ECTS, 54263)

2007–2011    “Field course in bedrock mapping” (3 ECTS, 54040)

2011–2015    “BSc level study planning” (1–2 ECTS, 54045)

2011–2013    “Career orientation in geology” (2 ECTS, 54046)

2007–2011    “Petrography course exercises” (varying ECTS equivalents, 54015, 54022, 54041)

2007–2011    “IT-studies in geology” (1 ECTS, 54007)

Supervision:

I have supervised BSc thesis projects in the BSc Programme in Geosciences, MSc thesis projects in the Petrology and Economic Geology (PEG) study track of the MSc Programme in Geology and Geophysics, and doctoral thesis projects in the Geosciences Doctoral Programme (GeoDoc) during 2012–2022.

On-going PhD projects:

2020- Milla Aaltonen: "The trace element and PGE elemental distribution of chromites: constraints on mineral chemical tracers in mafic-ultramafic host lithologies"

2020- Seppo Karvinen: "The trace element composition of magmatic apatite - Mineralogical and geological controls on apatite trace element chemistry in diverse magmatic systems"

2018- Riikka Fred: "Geochemical modeling of the parental magma for massive type anorthosites and related Ni-Cu ore potential"

 

Completed MSc thesis projects (links point to the UH e-thesis archive):

2022 Hanna-Kaisa Ruhanen: "Mineral chemistry of magma interaction structures and related rock types in the Ahvenisto complex, SE Finland"

2021 Minna Markkanen: "Petrography and mineral chemistry of the Kuohenmaa orbicular rock from Kangasala, SW Finland" 

2021 Hanna Rantanen: "Mineralogy, petrology, and petrogenesis of the Suvasvesi granitoid intrusion"

2020 Tiina Ruoho: "Betonin alkalikiviainesreaktioon vaikuttavista tekijöistä"

2019 Johanna Tepsell: "Geokronologia ja Cu-Fe-S-isotooppisovellukset Itä-Lapin ultraemäksisissä komplekseissa ja niihin liittyvissä litologisissa yksiköissä" 

The paper developed from this thesis: Tepsell et al. 2020

2017 Aleksi Aalto: "Development of a web GIS application and data management practices for integrating geologic and geophysical data"

2017 Riikka Fred: "Mafic and felsic magma interaction in the 1.64 Ga Ahvenisto complex, southeastern FInland: Field relations, petrography, geochemistry, and melt viscosity modeling of monzodioritic and granitic rocks"

The paper developed from this thesis: Fred et al. 2019

2016 Heli Kivisaari: "High-aluminum orthopyroxene megacrysts (HAOM) and the polybaric crystallization of the Proterozoic anorthosites of the Ahvenisto complex, southeastern Finland"

The paper developed from this thesis: Heinonen et al. 2020

 

On-going MSc thesis projects:

2022- Ilmari Leinonen: "Application of the µXRF method in orbicular rock research"

2021- Kristiina Salonen: "Suomenniemen kompleksin rapakiviin liittyvien pallokivien petrografia ja mineraalikemia"

2021- Jonna Köhler: "Petrography, mineral chemistry, and petrogenesis of the Kuivikonmäki orbicular rock"

 

Completed BSc thesis projects:

2022 Marika Moilanen: "Metapeliittien primäärit sulasulkeumat kuoren osittaisen sulamisen tutkimuksessa"

2021 Artur Tvauri: "Keski-Suomen granitoidikompleksin alueella esiintyvät ultramafiset litologiat"

2021 Ilmari Leinonen: "Viikinmäen gneissin petrogenesis"

2021 Lauri Malinen: "Keski-Lapin vihreäkivivyöhyke"

2021 Kristiina Salonen: "Suomen pallokivien petrografia - esimerkkeinä Laukaan, Lintusaaren ja Pöytyän esiintymät"

2020 Kei Miyagi: "Suomen pegmatiittisista high-tech-metalleista"

2020 Jonna Hautamäki: "Kidekokojakauma petrologisena työkaluna"

2014 Riikka Fred: "Korkean alumiinpitoisuuden ortopyrokseenimegakiteet massiivi-tyypin anortosiiteissa: esimerkkialueena Ahveniston kompleksi Kaakkois-Suomessa"

2014 Ville Virtanen: "Laitilan batoliitin rapakivigraniittien petrografiset ja geokemialliset piirteet"

2012 Heli Kivisaari: