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Sarah Fee
University of South Florida · Environmental Engineering (USF REU, Fall 2024 – Present)
Project title: The Invisible Threat: Traditional culture-based monitoring misses the VBNC state
Teaching
Instruction, workshops, and guest lectures in water research and policy.
Jade has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level lessons covering analytical methods for water-quality testing, navigation and analysis of federal environmental databases, introductory R programming and statistical analysis, and advanced multilevel modeling. The following details the courses and workshops in which she has served as an instructor or guest lecturer at USF and national conferences, teaching utility operators, researchers, engineers, consultants, and students.
- Workshop Presenter: "From Data to Decision: A Framework for Policy Analysis Using Integrated EPA Datasets," AWWA IMTR Committee Workshop. Accepted for presentation at the 2026 WQTC Conference, Memphis, TN.
- Guest Teaching Assistant: ENV2061 Engineering Sustainable & Healthy Environments — Tragedy or Cooperation of the Commons Simulation (Fall 2024/2026)
- Guest Lecturer: ENV6666 Aquatic Chemistry — Safe Drinking Water Act & USEPA Databases and Regulations (Spring 2022/2023, Fall 2024/2025/2026). View content
- Guest Teaching Assistant: ENV6666 Aquatic Chemistry — Aquatic Chemistry Titration Lab (Fall 2024/2025)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant: ENV4004L Environmental Engineering Lab — Lab Techniques (Sept–Dec 2023)
- Instructor: DW-TAPS — Intro to R for Statistical Analysis and Multi-level Modeling Workshop Series (Jan 2024)
Mentorship
Meet my mentees.
Alongside coursework and workshops, mentoring undergraduate researchers is one of the ways Jade teaches. See the full mentorship record — leadership roles, outreach, and peer review — on the Experience page, and photos of the mentees in action in the Gallery.
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Marie Emmanuelle Compere
College of Central Florida · Biology (NSF REU, Summer 2024)
Project title: Evaluating Seasonal Impacts on Microbial Growth and Contaminant Removal in a Drinking Water Biological Filter
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Toheedat Aderemi Bakare
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill · Environmental Health Science (NSF REU, Summer 2022)
Project title: The Use of Biofiltration in Degradation of Salicylic Acid and Nitrate Pollution
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Sky Embray
Trinity College · Environmental Science, Public Policy & Law (NSF REU, Summer 2022)
Project title: The Efficiency and Range of Biofiltration in Drinking Water Treatment
Notes & Explainers
Short explainers, notes, and article-style insights.
Short, interactive articles that explain treatment concepts, interpret environmental data, or break down policy topics in plain language — with real data and runnable code, not just slides. Browse all explainers →
Dev Tools · AI Safety
Run Claude Code Safely in a Dev Container (VS Code + Docker)
A quick, step-by-step tutorial — install WSL 2 and Docker Desktop, open Anthropic’s ready-made Dev Container, log in, and mount only the repos you want Claude to touch. Includes copy-paste commands, mount gotchas, and what the sandbox does (and doesn’t) protect.
Published October 17, 2026 · Read article → Causal InferenceDifference-in-Differences & Intervention Analysis
A controlled interrupted time-series walkthrough — framework pseudocode, a worked R example, live-computed statistics with Newey-West robust standard errors, and a downloadable example dataset (arsenic treatment vs. control, 1998–2019).
Published October 11, 2026 · Read article →Quick Access