Hi, my name's Dr.

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Dominique McOwen.

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Um, I did my undergraduate in, uh, biology.

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I was pre-med, so I have a Bachelor's of Science in biology,

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an associates of Science in chemistry,

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and I'm minor in geology.

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Um, and then I went to, uh,

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postgraduate education in Australia.

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Um, I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky,

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so I actually studied our, our fossil reefs around here,

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and that really piqued my interest in their ecology, uh,

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their revolutionary biology.

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Uh, we have old rubus and tablet corals.

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Um, I could talk a lot about corals and most concepts.

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Uh, I tried to explain with something I really like

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and I suggest students do the same.

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You find something that you can just sit

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and talk about all day,

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and then you learn a new concept through that.

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Um, so I have a lot of different teaching styles that I use.

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Um, a lot of different

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and different ways of learning,

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so I can help you find your best way of learning.

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That is, uh, that's the best thing I've ever done

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for myself, is tried a lot of different styles.

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I'm very tactile learner, um, and I encourage that

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and find different ways of doing that

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for a lot of materials.

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Um, so I, I mainly study ecology

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and evolutionary biology, uh,

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especially the marine side of things.

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So, um, all the way back

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to the I Karen Fauna moving forward, the Cambrian, uh,

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explosion of what I call fossilize life when, uh,

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stuff really started being able to be fossilized and,

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and that's how we check it as, uh, really being the life

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that we, uh, know of.

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So anyway, lots of big topic discussions.

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I like talking about mass extinctions, uh, climate change,

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not just the problems, but the solutions to that

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and how we can move forward

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as a society and figure things out.

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Um, so I'm all for teaching everybody how

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to teach themselves so we can all unify

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and be better people together.

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So, um, I've had a fair bit

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of tutoring experience, um,

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and more so on later, like, like last five or years or so.

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Um, but from, I've helped with kindergarten all the way up

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to 12th grade, and then I teach as well, uh,

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for different universities.

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Um, so a little all over the place really.

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I like having multiple jobs

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and I like getting to really get in contact with people

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and talk to people about what's going on.

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So happy to do that. Um, I also tutor professionals

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and have, uh, tutored, neuroscientists

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and stuff on climate change and mass extinction.

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So very happy to do that

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and happy to talk you through some of the troubles that come

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with that as well, and how you can protect yourself

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and your own mental health.

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Um, I've also studied virology, um, in my undergrad

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and, uh, mosquito ecology.

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So I, I've got a wealth of information, water quality, just,

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uh, I'll teach you how to teach you.

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Thank you.

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