Dr. Steven M. Quiring - 1523 Words

Introduction and overview Dr. Steven M. Quiring (hereinafter, Dr. Quiring) is a climatologist, associate professor and graduate director in the Department of Geography at Texas AM University. As his research assistant, I felt so happy to work with such an excellent, patient, and easygoing scholar over this semester. And I was fortunate to be assigned to interview him so as to have an opportunity to know him better. Dr. Quiring and I met at his office on Tuesday, November 17th. Due to he is one of the busiest faculty members in the department of geography, so finally we conducted a short half-hour interview. We talked about his research, career path, the qualities and skills that he deems a successful geographer should have, and his†¦show more content†¦Then he gradually lost interest in this major. During the first semester, he took an introductory of physical geography course, which is a science course for non-science majors. This was his first time to try to understand and learn geography. Before t hat, he claimed he did not really know about geography in the high school. He got really interested in geography from the class he took in his first semester. And he started to choose more geography-related courses, learn it online, and discover the latest news from this discipline. In his view, geography is a practical and attractive discipline, which is closely connected to the real world with a very extensive application. So he switched his major. â€Å"A good teacher may shape your future.† A good teacher can teach you knowledge, import wisdom to you, and even bright your future. Dr. Quiring said he switched his major and eventually become a geography professor also because the professor he met in that class impacted him a lot. His first geography professor is a climatologist, who did a really good job of teaching the courseï ¼Å'stimulate the studentsï ¼Å'and aroused their interest in the study. This professor is one of the most impressive professors for Dr. Quiring, who changed Quiring’s attitude to geography. After that, Dr. Quiring switched his major and decided to be a geography faculty member when he was a junior student.