Adam has 8 years teaching experience as an Alaska certificated teacher, and has lead over 20 extended science field excursions.  These include trips around Alaska, the Grand Canyon, and South American mines and volcanoes.  His mission as a science teacher is to get kids excited about science.  Using the world as a classroom, he bases his courses on the concept that students learn when questions arise from pushing the limits of their understanding about the world.  His gifts include not only a contagious passion for his subject matter, but an energy level that keeps teenagers on their toes, and an ability to encourage student growth both personally and academically.  Adolescents are drawn to his fun-loving, yet firm personality because they know that he loves science, but about each of them as a unique person.  He is a master science teacher, providing top-notch inquiry-based instruction that is tailored to each student and group’s specific needs, but his programs also include an element of unique Mr. Low-ness that combines high energy, risk-taking, fun, sensitivity, physical exertion, and Alaskan wilderness and spirit.

Adam has been an enthusiastic rock hound since he first announced that he wanted to be a “jelly-gist” as a little boy, and his passion for outdoor adventure and science-infused fun dates back to high school.  His first experience teaching was as a Challenge Alaska ski instructor for disabled athletes in high school.  He graduated with a background in student-centered learning and alternative education from Stellar High School in Anchorage, Alaska.  It was as a teen-aged participant in the Juneau Ice Field Research Project that he first learned the power of “real” experiential science education.  He has climbed Denali, the highest peak in North America, and is a certified Wilderness First Responder with the National Ski Patrol.  Adam worked as a field geologist until he realized that he wanted to work with kids and share his contagious enthusiasm for science in a more high-paced environment. 

Armed with a Masters in the Art of Teaching, Adam spent 4 years in South America before moving back to Alaska to teach Physics, Chemistry, Integrated Science, and Geology at Cordova High School.  Adam brings learning to life by providing science experiences such as field trips, guest speakers, community projects and projects with working scientists that engage and interest students. 

He has a family of three young children and his wife Emily is an elementary school teacher.  When he is not busy teaching or taking students on field trips, he spends time playing with his children, biking down mountain-sides in South America, hiking, skiing, going to Judo with his son, reading, cooking for his family with food sensitivities, wood-working, plunking on the banjo, fishing but not catching much, and philosophizing about education and life in general.